Lets have some manners

What has happened to a friendly "hello" and / or "Good Luck" greeting when starting a game.

Of about twenty open invites that I have posted, only one has been accepted with a greeting by an accepting opponent.

I thought chess players had manners and knew etiquette.

Can we have some civility and good old fashioned manners please - or, am I expecting too much these days......................?

Hello. Good luck buddy. Let's be best friends.

Originally posted by MartinS
What has happened to a friendly "hello" and / or "Good Luck" greeting when starting a game.

Of about twenty open invites that I have posted, only one has been accepted with a greeting by an accepting opponent.

I thought chess players had manners and knew etiquette.

Can we have some civility and good old fashioned manners please - or, am I expecting too much these days......................?

Originally posted by Nemesio
Many of the players on this site are not fluent in English,
or don't know it at all. It may not reflect rudeness so
much as tentativeness or even linguistic inability.

Nemesio

Originally posted by hopscotch
[b]WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?[/b]

Originally posted by hopscotch
[b]WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME?[/b]

Originally posted by Nemesio
If you are kidding, then you forgot the smiley.

If you are serious, then reread my post, and you
will see that it is not directed at you, nor was it
a reply to your post.

I was observing, for the sake of MartinS, that
sometimes if people don't respond to him in a
game, it might not have anything to do with their
being rude.

Nemesio

Originally posted by hopscotch
I never use smileys, and have been on the Anti-Smiley campaign since I was weaned from my mother who used to beat me every day in her vain efforts to dissuade me from my animous smiley hatred.

Just kidding.

Originally posted by Nemesio
I see you were weaned sometime after 29 October 2004.
Congratulations.

Thread: Never thought I'd see the day!!!! Forum: General

Originally posted by hopscotch
[b]Sorry to split hairs, but no, it doesn't work. The teams are all based in the United States, and the nationality of the players don't really matter, because it's a team sport. ...[text shortened]... and let's talk about the Kyoto agreement while we're at it!

Americans. sigh...

😉[/b]

Originally posted by Nemesio
I see you were weaned sometime after 29 October 2004.
Congratulations.

Thread: Never thought I'd see the day!!!! Forum: General 

Originally posted by hopscotch
[b]Sorry to split hairs, but no, it doesn't work. The teams are all based in the United States, and the nationality of the players don't really matter, because it's a team sport. ...[text shortened]... and let's talk about the Kyoto agreement while we're at it!

Americans. sigh...

😉[/b]

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
That's not a smiley. That's a winky.

Originally posted by hopscotch
I said I was kidding, lighten up.

I like when I send a "hello and good luck" message and it's answered by " I don't believe in luck" or my favorite " yes good luck to you cause you'll need it".... Yet I still continue to send my warm little greeting. Some don't respond, sometimes if I have respect for my opponent I will even send a greeting in their native tongue, to the best of my ability anyway.


Nyxie