Originally posted by greenpawn34This is SO true - great point GP - almost all of my best friends are chess players - not people I worked with, not people I met at a bar, not people who were neighbors, not people I met at the gym, etc, etc.
Not to mention meeting a whole bunch of new friends. Genuine friends.
Chess playing friends last forever. You can depend on a chess playing friend.
Whenever I really needed a friend it was a chess player who was there for me - and vice versa.
Originally posted by TimmyBxAgree, chess players do seem a nice lot of folk, accept when you beat them.
This is SO true - great point GP - almost all of my best friends are chess players - not people I worked with, not people I met at a bar, not people who were neighbors, not people I met at the gym, etc, etc.
Whenever I really needed a friend it was a chess player who was there for me - and vice versa.