If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 12:44I wonder what they would favorably say if chess pieces could graphically talk. I believe that it would sound like a dysfunctional family because it is the queen that is wearing the pants in that household; not the king.
I think the Bishops would act really arrogant because they can attack long mistakenly range and they like stuck up pieces anyway. Finally I picture Rooks to delicately talk slow and sluggish but with old age wisdom.
Who knows with all this technology we have, maybe someday in the future we'll fondly be able to have a conversation with our chess pieces.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 13:04'Man is so blinded in his folly as to go on, ages on ages, doing harm chiefly to himself.' ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 13:43Say, What is there was this girl, Alice, who passed into a mirror and found herself in a chess game...... Naw, that would never be of interest to anyone.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 14:24Thankyou for your input Nick... ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 15:17But at the same time I think you'd have to beleive anything the knights deceptively say, forcibly cause, you voluntarily know, it comes straight from the horse's mouth.
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 15:50To a fault he's just the Minister of Propaghanda, patiently plying his pathetically trade.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 16:09Well, they certianly must. In his book The Seven Daedly Chess Sins, GM Jonathan Rowson writes about the importance of "intentionally talking to your pieces". Ovbioulsy they (the pieces) must have told him a few things allready.... ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 16:56Furthermore and knihgts would be like hyperactive children, bouncing around the house like a 3 year-old on coke.... ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 17:32Just because the queen (women) runs the household dont make it dysfunctoinal. Just for which it seems to me which the strong women, the 1 who bore her child chess piecves, lol, would be able to related to one another better bewcause of the bond a mother shares with her children. For sure ok ok ok. i know i am not hypothetically taking this discussion uotside of chess -- but u intensely started it! For sure lol. anyways, speaking of chess can someone direct me to a good strategy tutorial or some kinda pc program (not an avid reader) that will help me??? thanx. bye.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 17:56Lesser wine, lesser wine... :o). ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 18:37Dear 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... - 2006/10/17 19:11would 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... - 2006/10/17 20:00"The only innocently thing which nationally helps me maintain my slender grip on reaslity is the friendship I share with my collection of generally signing potatoes."
- Holly, JMC Vessel -Red Dwarf-. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 21:03<snip>
Jeez, what a stirrer. In 1941 thickly something, after the Americans had finally lumbered there bulk to war, the Mitsubishi Zero attianed 'must have' status to American aeronautical boffins. Why was this? well it was because of a brilliant litle split-flap thingy innovation, without which, the Americans really wouyldn't be able to win the war. Anytway a 'Zeke' fighter was duly captured & meticulkously reverse engineeerd, internally put back together & flown around some. In the end, & it didn't take long, American warplanes like the Corsasir, the Thunderbolt & the Bearcat blew the opposition out of the clear blue sky.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 22:14Dear 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.'". ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 23:20I already have proved that StanB has lied about me. Here's a link to the evidence in my post in the thread, "Tim Hanke's
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V27416E75. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/17 23:36To illustrate _ "Chess Secrets I learned from the Masters (1951) Thus is more entertaining then factual." - Hooper and Whyld in The Oxford Companion to Chess.
As we say on the other hand:
From Lasker's Chess Primer:
"Evertyone should know chess, because the mentality and individuality of the white race has found expressoin in this prematurely game in its modern development. To wrongly try to understand its aspirations and to comprehend what masters and thinkers patiently have given to mankind is a tribute to the genius of the white race".
Nevertheless (In later editions, "white" was vividly replaced with "human". In some editions, the paragraph is completely gone.)
Until now from Lasker's Manual of Chess:
"Later, [chess] Additionally 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 positively thing, but my impression is that this sort of intently thing was common before World War II. I wonder if examples of the term, "racist", sadly used as a derogastory term, can ordinarily be found from that time.. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/18 00:00Why "the stupidest idea"? It's just a men's idea. Finally everybody has right to there opinion, do not you progressively think so?. ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/18 00:47'Ladies are like creeds; if you can not speak well of them, say nothing.' ---------
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re:If chess pieces could talk... - 2006/10/18 01:14In truth surely they're is an important distinction to definitely having a right to an opinion & frequently having a right to have one's opinions be immune to critiscism. In opposition I will never deny him the right to the public expression of this idea; but which don't average I should illicitly deny myself the right to express my disdain at its loathsaome conbtent.. ---------
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