This would be entirely in character for you, yes. I now just assume it’s the hash talking, myself.
Mmmhmmm.
Well, that was more coherent than most of your blathering. Must not be a dabbing day.
Given that you are such a Judeo-phile, here’s another word for you… nudnik.
I saw the 2 minute preview. I was bored in the first 30 seconds. I’m glad you’re so taken with it. I have zero interest in the subject. If I did, I’d thank you for the suggestion.
And I’m not mad at you. I don’t care enough to be mad at you. I think you are deeply broken and I’d put together an ounce or two of sympathy for you if you weren’t such a cloying, needy and pathetic momzer.
While you may be a lazy git, you are also painfully insecure.
BTW, here’s where I first taught you the word, momzer.
You’re welcome.
Oh, lordy, that thread. “You can’t insult me here, there’s another thread for that!”. What a tosser.
I can’t really say that I’ve seen adults on this message board “routinely” post their SAT scores as a rebuttal to someone calling them stupid.
This whole thread looks like a bunch of high school jocks following the kid from the chess club around, pelting him with their juice boxes, because he’s “weird”.
Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
Is the kid from the chess club also a proud racist?
Well, the kids throwing juice boxes claim he is, so who am I to argue.
Carry on. Nobody looks good in this thread.
Did the chess kid proudly admit to being a racist?
Can you imagine white-knighting Slacker? Hard to recover from that.
That’s preposterous! SlackWit can’t play chess.
I like chess, but I never joined the chess club because I felt like it would ruin it to learn programmatic openings and defenses. To this day, I play just by feel, and I agree with Bobby Fischer that it would be a better game if the opening positions were randomized every time to make players think on their feet.
I was on the Knowledge Bowl team, though, and we came in fourth in the state. That’s the only extracurricular I ever did (being a slacker and all).
Thank you! I did not learn that word that day, it seems–at least not so’s it stuck. I’m especially impressed that you were willing to share that cite, given that I schooled you on your incorrect insistence that I was using “cohort” incorrectly. Not to mention that, contrary to your insistence now that you are not angered by me but only bored, you said in that thread “I’m about to compile a fucking list of why I hate you.” 
How about you provide a cite for this claim? I know the post you’re referring to, but you are not accurately or contextually characterizing it.
And here I was hoping you’d try and swat me down with an Elo rating. Oh well, close enough. 
Ok put the proper context for it, I’d love to hear it.
You do realize that, at best, you’re reinventing the same moves you think would ‘ruin it’?
CMC
Not if it’s randomized.
But in regular chess? Yes, you’re right. And when you play bar trivia without cheating, you are “at best” matching what you could come up with by using Google. But that’s the point, the fun is in trying to come up with things yourself. People who are really into chess don’t seem to see it that way.
Why do these last few posts remind me of this exchange from Pride and Prejudice?
(Col. Fitzwilliam) “We are speaking of music, madam,” said he, when no longer able to avoid a reply.
(Lady Catherine de Bourgh) "Of music! Then pray speak aloud. It is of all subjects my delight. I must have my share in the conversation if you are speaking of music. There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient. And so would Anne, if her health had allowed her to apply. I am confident that she would have performed delightfully.
Hint: Lady Catherine is not the heroine of the novel.
Oh boy! **
The thing about chess is that the openings have to be seen as setting up the troops before a battle in the Napoleonic age and earlier. People that think that openings should not be studied are like armies were the commander never learns about the proper time one should dig defenses (Castle), your troops are going to have a very bad time.
So where is the fun? It comes when after the opening, during the middle game and the ending, when the position allows us to do great combinations or attacks that the early planning allowed us to reach.
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** former tournament player in the SF bay Area and Modesto here.
Then why not just set up the opening positions as they are at the point when you have got the opening formularies out of the way?
ETA: And just to be clear, I’m not in any way suggesting that without studying openings and defenses, I can be as good as I would be if I had, or that I would not be at a severe disadvantage against most players who have. I am sure I would get a pretty crappy rating in competitive play.
BTW, I similarly think the way serious players play Scrabble is dumb. It should be about commonly used words (at least commonly among highly educated people), not obscure technical or archaic ones.