I have been playing chess now for a few years and have been steadily improving. I still stink but I have enough respect for the game to study games, the openings, etc. In other words, I understand my experience and inexperience and go from there in my attempt to improve. There is nothing special with this. Millions of other people do likewise, in chess, tennis, anything else. But I can’t get out of my mind one guy who isn’t like this. This is the kind of guy who thinks that just because he knows how the pieces move, he is already a Master. And as far as knowing how the pieces move, he hardly has a PhD in that field either. Playing him years ago, I would become frustrated with the arguments we got into,about among other things:
a)pawns capturing en passant (how do you italicize?) “You don’t know anything about chess. Pawns can’t capture like that.”
b)pawn promotions (to a second queen)“No, you can only promote to a piece that has already been captured.”
c)me moving the board so that the lower right square was white “What does it matter what color that square is?”
d)castling “What the hell are you doing???”
One time, the nitwit put his king next to mine. After he insisted that it was a legal move, I blew up, one might say finally, and yelled out that one shouldn’t play a game if one does not know the complete rules.
But here is the grandma of all retarded comments from this dude: I was particularly awful five years ago, awful enough even to lose to such a guy once every ten games and this was the tenth game. Absent-mindedly I lost one piece after another and found myself in the end game. He tried to mate. It was likely a mate in two, but he moved his pieces back and forth like a retard, going nowhere. Finally, he got me and he goes, “The only thing I don’t know about this game is how to checkmate! Otherwise, I’m a good player.”
Ooooookay. Here’s a twit who wouldn’t know what an opening, middle game, etc. is if it landed on his head, someone who moves his rook on move two and three and four, one who has no strategy or common sense in moving his pieces, knows nothing about proper piece development and protection and controlling of the center, someone who is already thinking of mating after the first move, and he thinks that his lack of ability to checkmate is his only deficiency in the game?
