Originally posted by exigentskyChess blogs are not overrun with spammers and trolls, but there's precious little of merit in the chess forums of most sites.
Yes, it's a work in progress and they must join, just like RHP *gasp* and virtually every other similar service. I'm glad because it discourages spammers and trolls.
I started blogging at chess.com and gave up because my posts would not load. The problems with blogging services--wordpress, blogger, etc.--have been minor.
Bill Wall puts up a lot of stuff, but fails to cite sources. A large portion of his "information" proves false. Sometimes ignorance is preferable to misinformation.
As Mark Twain stated, it ain't what they don't know, but what they know that ain't so.
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Originally posted by streetfighterthat was a very fun article to read. nice annotations too, thanks. I'm going to check out your other articles as well.
I've been writing a few articles at chess.com if anyone's interested : )
Here's a link to one of them:-
[b] http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-birds-and-the-bs
Is there an 'article' forum here for writers? I'd be happy to write for this site too if it's possible.[/b]
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Originally posted by KorchC'mon Korch. 1:35 AM is just the start of the day.
Yes I see. Have tried to finish article for blog, but it seems that I need to sleep - It`s 1:53 AM now....
Hope to finish it tomorrow.
(I have work tomorrow at 8 AM and have one deadline to meet before dawn - a piece of cake)
Two cups of coffe and away you go.
Make your first post an analyse of one of Jie's games 🙂
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That is an excellent article by Street Fighter.
Thanks diskamyl for reminding me about it.
http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-birds-and-the-bs
He writes like he plays - no prisoners, but I think he should have
named the guy so I can look out for the limp handshake.
(don't you just hate that - it's like touching a dead fish).
I cannot wait to cheapo him from a lost position.
When faced with such a confrontation, I always shrug and agree
I was lucky. (and the next time I'll be even luckier ).
I never thought about disagreeing with the guy and making an article about it.
Cheers SF.
That is quite amusing, I played a game earlier in the year against a similar opponent who forced me to keep analysing for about two hours, being beaten time after time, until I eventually made a mistake which allowed him an advantage and he then proceeded to tell his team mates how that was the ONLY possible way the game could have gone and I had been lucky to win.
Needless to say, I had the last laugh when I pointed out that I had the win so nobody would ever know of his brilliancy.