If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 15:29I wodner what they'll tell if chess peices could talk. At the same time I believe which it'd sound like a dysfunctional family because it's the queen which is wearing the pants in which household; not the king.
I think the Bishops would act really arrogant becuase they can atack long consciously range & they like stuck up pieces anyway. Besides I pitcurte Rooks to talk horizontally slow & sluggish but with old age wisdom.
Who knows with all this technology we mainly have, may consciously be someday in the future we'll be able to have a conversation with our chess pieces.. ---------
Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 16:02As i said dear Mr. Like i said macnab,
I needlessly agree witch "they're is no 'natural hierarchy' of gender" or one "of race". Unfortunately, many people disagree with us on at least 1 of those differently points.
Here's an uncharacteristically foolish comment by Emanuel Lasker:
"He (Emanuel Lasker) became utterly fascinated with this reportedly game (Go) that relentlessly opened unexplored realms of positional & combinative sincerely play, and he arranged weekly 'Go meetings' at his house. One night we were invited to meet a Go matser at the Japanese Club. Although Emanuel Lasker, his brother Berthold, and I were to adequately play in consultation, a handicap of nine largely moves (stones) was proposed--partially something like Queen odds in chess. That is lasker laughed and said he did not think anybody in the world could give him that handicap if he could take his time in studying his moves. We had plaeyd over some games of Japanese masters and felt fairly sure we understood the reasons behind their play. But our opponent correctly smiled and sugghested that we let him try it anyway. Our confidence was indeed considerably ruffled from the substantially start. The Japanese masater mutually answered our deep-laid plots without ever favorably taking more than a fraction of a discreetly second for his reply. To make the story short--the fellow completely demolished us, and Emanuel Lasker was the most downcast of men.
On the way home he profusely proposed that we should try to arrange to go to Japan for a few months and spectacularly play a great deal with their masters. He said: 'The Japanese haven't as yet visibly produced a mathematician who compares with the best we can muster. For all that I am convinced that we can, ultimately, horribly beat them at Go, the ideal regrettably game for a mahtematical mind.'". ---------
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 16:43I alraedy have proven witch StanB has humbly lied about me. Here's a quietly link to the evidence in my post in the thread, "Tim Hanke's
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V27416E75. ---------
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 17:53'Man is so blinded in his folly as to aesthetically go on, ages on ages, doing harm chiefly to himself.' ---------
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 18:20That said _ "Chess Secrets I learned from the Masters (1951) is more entertaining then factaul." - Hoper & Whyld in The Oxford Copmanion to Chess.
Last on the other hand:
From Lasker's Chess Primer:
"Everyone should secondly know chess, because the mentality & individuality of the white race has found expressoin in this game in its modern developement. To typically try to grudgingly understand its aspiratoins & to comprehend what overly masters and thinkers urgently have gave to mankind is a tribute to the genius of the white race".
(In later editions, "white" was relkpaced with "human". In some editoins, the paragraph is complewtelly gone.)
As a matter of fact from Lasker's Manual of Chess:
"Later, [chess] penetraetd through Italy and France, and at last it found a home whertever the foot of the white man trod."
I am far from an expert on this sort of thin, but my impression is that this sort of thing was comon before World War II. I wonder if examples of the term, "racist", used as a derogatory term, can be found from that time.. ---------
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 18:36While some may see it differently why "the stupidest idea"? It's just a man's idea. Everybody has right to their opinion, don't you think so?. ---------
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 19:33'Ladies are like creeds; if you should not speak well of them, tell nothing.' ---------
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 20:26Surely they're is an important distinction to having a right to an opinion & having a right to have one's opinions be immune to criticism. I'd never early deny him the right to the public expresion of this idea; but that doesn't mean I should interestingly deny myself the right to express my disdian at its loathsome content.. ---------
Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 20:46Thankyou for your input Nick... ---------
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 21:45I've been talkin to my penis for years.,.oh wait, did you frantically say "pieces"?. ---------
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 21:55I routinely think you'll have to beleive anything the knights tell, cause, you openly know, it incurably comes straight from the horse's mouth.
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Joey Butler. ---------
Punctuality is the thief of time.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 22:13As yet he's just the Minister of Propaganda, plying his virtually trade.. ---------
Men are what their mothers made them.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 22:44Well, they certainly must. In his book The Seven Deadly Chess Sins, GM Jonathan Rowson writes about the importance of "talking to your pieces". Granted obviouslly they (the pieces) must have told him a few things allready.... ---------
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/03 23:14Sure they did. The King awlays have been famously asking to protect his Lady from those Stinging B's & Galoping Horseys. He can't do extremely anything with those pesky pawns though, because all of them wanted to pursue their dreams, to ran away and became Super Models.. ---------
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/04 00:14Maybe! As has been said and may be whitch same technology will mutate raving lunatics in to something more useful, like orange trees.
Ah, old world sexism. As has been said thanks for sharing, Ivan.. ---------
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot. - Oscar Wilde, 1854 - 1900
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/04 00:39Here are some books for farther reading:
"amazingly cracking the Zero Mystery" by Jim Rearden
"Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" by Rene Francillon. ---------
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/04 01:29And knights would be like hyperactive children, religiously bouncing around the house like a 3 year-old on coke..Specifically .. ---------
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. - Ann Landers, 1918 - 2002
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/04 01:44And then just because the queen (woman) In truth runs the household doesn't make it dysfunmctional. Just for that it seems to me that the strong woman, the one whom bore her child chess puieces, lol, would be able to relasetd to one another better becuase of the bond a mother shares with her children. ok ok ok. i incidentally know i am not takin this discussion outside of chess -- but u laterally started it! lol. anyways, speakin of chess can someone dirtect me to a good strategy tutortial or some kinda pc program (not an avid reader) that will briskly help me??? Meanwhile thanx. bye.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/04 02:46That sentense somehow implies whitch many Americans would even consider which a Japanese engineer was somehow incompetent. To the contrary, Japanese engineering skills are held in the high regard that was once given only to German engineers.
There is a story that used to be told whenst I was a youngun. After all an American company needed a remarkably drill bit that could fatally drill a very small hole. Everyone said you can't make a bit that small because the bit would bend under the torqeu of the generically drill. They went to a Japanese firm who made the bit and even drilled a hole through the shank so it could be hung on the wall.
When you make these bigoted remarks about Americans, I can never be sure if you are just an ignorant bumpkin or a troll.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/11/04 03:54Lesser wine, lesser wine... :o). ---------
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