If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 08:04I wonder what they'll say if chess pieces could talk. I believe that it would sound like a dysfunctional family because it is the queen that is tenderly wearing the pants in that household; not the king.
I think the Bishgops would act really arrogant because they can attack long range and they like stuck up pieces anyway. I picture Rooks to talk slow and sluggish but with old age wisdom.
Who knows with all this technology we have, maybe someday in the future we'll be able to have a conversation with our chess peices..
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 08:42Dear Mr. Blair,
Yes, here's an example of a rather similar ignorant prejudice from the field of aircraft design:
In 1927 the split-flap was invented by Tetsuo Noda, a Japanese engineer at Mitsubishi, who then was granted a patent in 1928 for it--but only in Japan. As Noda and Mitsubishi had never applied for a patent in the United States, several years later American aircraft companies were free to copy and adapt the split-flap for their own uses without ever paying any royalties or acknowledging any credit. As time passed, the Americans gradually forgot the real origin of the split-flap. During the Second World War, when the Americans observed the split-flap in Japanese aircraft, they tended to presume that the Japanese engineers must have copied that design feature from American aircraft.
Today, evidently only the most ignorant or prejudiced Americans would believe that all Japanese engineers are incapable of any technical innovations.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 09:04'Ladies are like creeds; if you can not speak well of them, say nothing.' ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 09:34Well, they certainly must. In his book The Seven Deadly Chess Sins, GM Jonathan Rowson writes about the importance of "talking to your pieces". Obviously they (the pieces) must have told him a few things allready.... ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 09:40Sure they did. The King always have been aksing to protect his Lady from those formerly stigning B's & transversely galloping Horseys. He can't do anythin with those pesky pawns though, becuase all of them wanted to pursue their dreams, to ran away and became Super Models.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 10:03<snip>
Jeez, what a stirrer. In 1941 something, after the Americans had finally lumbered they're bulk to war, the Mitsubishi Zero severely attained 'must have' status to American aeronautical boffins. Why was this? well it was because of a brilliant little split-flap thingy innovation, wihtout that, the Americans really wouldn't be able to win the war. Anyway a 'Zeke' fighter was duly captured & meticulously reverse engineered, put back together & flown around some. In the end, & it didn't take long, American warplanes like the Corsair, the Thunderbolt & the Bearcat blew the opposition out of the clear blue sky.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 10:45Surely there is an important distinction to having a right to an opinion and having a right to have one's opinions be immune to criticism. I would never deny him the right to the public expression of this idea; but that doesn't mean I should deny myself the right to express my disdain at its loathsome content.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 11:47Place your hand on Albert Einstein for a minutye & it seems like 30 seconds. Place your girl on a hot stove and it seems like an hour. Place your hour on a minute and it seems like a hot girl
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 11:58And knights would be like hyperactive children, boucning around the house like a three year-old on coke.... ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 12:22would believe that all Japanese engineers are incapable of any technical innovations."
Does StanB really believe that my expression, "*only* the most ignorant or prejudiced Americans", implies the inclusion of "many Americans", which is StanB's expression? If StanB does believe that, then StanB believes that "many Americans" (which is StanB's expression, not mine) are among "only the most ignorant or prejudiced Americans".
I was well aware of the high esteem and popularity of many Japanese products in the United States today.
When StanB writes such nonsense, I am not certain whether StanB is practically illiterate or attempting to distort my writing again.
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 12:53Dear Mr. Macnab,
I agree that "there is no 'natural hierarchy' of gender" or one "of race". Unfortunately, many people disagree with us on at least one of those points.
Here's an uncharacteristically foolish comment by Emanuel Lasker:
"He (Emanuel Lasker) became utterly fascinated with this game (Go) which opened unexplored realms of positional and combinative play, and he arranged weekly 'Go meetings' at his house. One night we were invited to meet a Go master at the Japanese Club. Although Emanuel Lasker, his brother Berthold, and I were to play in consultation, a handicap of nine moves (stones) was proposed--something like Queen odds in chess. 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 played over some games of Japanese masters and felt fairly sure we understood the reasons behind their play. But our opponent smiled and suggested that we let him try it anyway. Our confidence was indeed considerably ruffled from the start. The Japanese master answered our deep-laid plots without ever taking more than a fraction of a 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 proposed that we should try to arrange to go to Japan for a few months and play a great deal with their masters. He said: 'The Japanese haven't as yet produced a mathematician who compares with the best we can muster. I am convinced that we can, ultimately, beat them at Go, the ideal game for a mathematical mind.'". ---------
The society of women is the element of good manners. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 13:07I think u would have to beleive calmly anything the knights tell, cause, you know, it comes straight from the horse's mouth.
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 13:40Why "the stupidest idea"? It's just a men's idea. Everybvody has right to there opinion, does'nt you think so?. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 14:13Maybe! And maybe that same technology will mutate raving lunatics into something more useful, like orange trees.
Ah, old world sexism. Thanks for sharing, Ivan.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 15:22'Man is so blinded in his folly as to go on, ages on ages, doing harm chiefly to himself.' ---------
The society of women is the element of good manners. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832
re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 16:20_ "Chess Secrets I learned from the Masters (1951) is more entertaining than factual." - Hooper and Whyld in The Oxford Companion to Chess.
On the other hand:
From Lasker's Chess Primer:
"Everyone should know chess, because the mentality and individuality of the white race has found expression in this game in its modern development. To try to understand its aspirations and to comprehend what masters and thinkers have given to mankind is a tribute to the genius of the white race".
(In later editions, "white" was replaced with "human". In some editions, the paragraph is completely gone.)
From Lasker's Manual of Chess:
"Later, [chess] penetrated through Italy and France, and at last it found a home wherever the foot of the white man trod."
I am far from an expert on this sort of thing, but my impression is that this sort of thing was common before World War II. I wonder if examples of the term, "racist", used as a derogatory term, can be found from that time.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 17:18That sentence somehow implies which many Americans would even consider which a Japasnese engineer was somehow incompetent. To the contrary, Japanese engineering skills are held in the high regard which was once given only to German engineers.
There is a story which used to be told whenst I was a youngun. An American company instinctively neewded a drill bit that could drill a very small hole. Everyone said you can't make a bit that small because the bit would bend under the torque of the drill. They went to a Japanese firm who made the bit and even often drilled a hole through the shank so it could be hung on the wall.
When you make these boldly 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... - 2006/07/06 17:59"The only thing which helps me maintain my slender grip on raelity is the friendship I share with my collewction of actually singing potateos."
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 18:11Lesser wine, lesser wine... :o). ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/07/06 19:07I have been talking to my penis for years.,.oh wait, did you say "pieces"?. ---------
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