Something interesting to tell

What can you share that is interesting, fun, great information, a good story or anything that is valuable to the rest of us. Just something that you find great to share.

nice Lou-for-You. Here's what I have to share.

I started a chess.com thread a few months ago, and the thread has attracted some really awesome people who have made lasting valuable contributions to the thread. In the process I have had to block a very small number of people, because the positive generous contributors have been very good about staying on track and not letting themselves get sidetracked by the nonsense.

I have also contributed to some other threads. Sometimes I argue a bit, sometimes I think others are arguing for the sake of arguing and needing to be right...but also in the process I've become connected to some great blogs, and some great chessplayers and thinkers and writers on chess.com and on the web. 

There's lots of great people and great generous instructive postings out there; its important to be very disciplined in dealing with the trolls. Its helpful if the OP blocks trolls if they really want to have a conversation that is helpful to the maximun number of people. Having a liberal laissez-faire attitude to trolls doesn't do anyone any good; its more useful to block them.

With all the trolls, arguments, inflated egos, needing to be right, insults, posing, questionable business practices and questionable ethics by staff, the fact is I have warm fuzzies about my experience on chess.com, and I expect to be here a long time, and I expect to learn a lot and to contribute a lot. 

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      I agree with somebodsson. I want to post interesting and educational post, but I sometimes get distracted by the trolls. So my new years resolution is think before you post!

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I met the queen mother when I was a kid. Interesting or boring?  :)

Thats interesting, why did you meet her?

Lou, whats your story to share?

The chess proverb "After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box" in the literal sense means when you're done playing a game of chess, all the unique pieces of different heirachal positions return to the same source, regardless of their lofty or "lowly" status and which side they were on. 

In life, when we are done with the "game", we all too go back into the same "box", in the age of this quote, that can mean a catacomb or in the earth's soil. This includes everyone from a King to the working class to the poor, the politicians, the bankers, the lawyers, the doctors, the receptionists, the postman, milkman and clerics, all walks of life will end up dead. 

So we can surely one thing for certain, the game is not forever lasting, there is an outcome, it is rigged, no-one gets out "alive", everyone and everything is trapped in this extensive domain of our "universe"...  a dark view on life, but true none the less, yay or nay...? 

She was cutting the ribbon to open some shops and I was up the front so she came over and talked to me but I was only a little tot, and half asleep so I just ignored her lol.

fantastic! 'the game is rigged'. awesome. 

Thank you, I wrote a blog about it a while ago . 

It's an interesting area to research, chess and symbolism, the growth of chess, how it has influence and shaped civilisation and it's purpose... 

well, I'd love to read it. If you want to send me a message with the link, I'd love to read it. I was touched by how you wrote. 

You can find the academic and extended version of the blog on my wordpress, but here is the shortened blog on here, chess.com.

http://www.chess.com/blog/kiwi_overtherainbow/a-chess-proverb

The french word for cheese is fromage. (I think.)

I believe the saying is "Bring on the gloves" lol. 

I think the "game" is more interesting than chess, though if that was conveyed in the original post I'm not sure, but to clarify, chess isn't real or living, it doesn't have any ontological export into the real world, just by stating that it is not on the same wavelength let alone league. I just find chess to be a surprisingly great analogy for many aspects of life, this is what sparked my train of thought and it's interrelation to the chess proverb. 

beautiful, kiwi, just beautiful. thank you. 

kiwi wrote:

I believe the saying is "Bring on the gloves" lol. 

I think the "game" is more interesting than chess, though if that was conveyed in the original post I'm not sure, but to clarify, chess isn't real or living, it doesn't have any ontological export into the real world, just by stating that it is not on the same wavelength let alone league. I just find chess to be a surprisingly great analogy for many aspects of life, this is what sparked my train of thought and it's interrelation to the chess proverb. 

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Very incisive. There are 2 perspectives on chess that I have discerned and developed to theoretical systems. One has been developed into a proof through practice and observation that has been peer reviewed by very strong GMs throughout the last 100 years. The system is chess is Siege Warfare on a chessboard.

The second perspective that I have been developing a theory about is that chess is 2 dimensional physics. To my mind it is still only a theory. But, the 5 forces that are all actually only 1 force are definitely there as represented by the pawns and pieces. Even matter and anti-matter in a 2-dimensional universe. The main difference between the forces in our 4-dimensional universe and the 2-dimensional chess universe is that in our 4-dimensional the forces exert "real" force, in contrast to the forces in the 2-dimensional chess universe that only exert "virtual" force.

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