Just watched it, and its a take on baseball signs. Mike Methany was a ball player and manages the ST. Louis Cardinals. Its not promoting cheating, and its certainly not "ethnically challenged"
Are you and Mike suggesting that we start using the rules of baseball to play chess games? That certainly would be a novel approach, but I'm afraid it might be a bit confusing.
Not at all. Im just saying its a fun commercial, combining chess and baseball. If youre playing either and dont know the rules, thats on you, not the commercial or games.
That's exactly my point. Maybe you know not to pay any attention to the rules aspect of the commercial, but how many of the little scholastic kiddies have actually read the rule book? Probably almost none of them. They don't need to be viewing chess commercials that are telling them it's OK to break a fundamental rule of chess.
If you and or your parents did not take the time to explain some simple rules of the game, that is your fault. besides all that...comon sense should tell you that you dont help people out during a game. We all know cheating happens, but to blame a fun commercial for peoples inability to learn and understand the rules is blamestorming, and not taking responsibility.
OK, fine. To he77 with the kiddies, I can barely tolerate them anyway. If they break the rules, let's drum them out of the corps. Let 'em learn the hard way.
If they break the rules, they face the same consequence as anyone. If the excuse is "I didnt know" well then now ya know, and now you can sit down and EXPLAIN to your kids that cheating isnt allowed. Obviously for some that wont matter, but at least you did your part.
Just watched it, and its a take on baseball signs. Mike Methany was a ball player and manages the ST. Louis Cardinals. Its not promoting cheating, and its certainly not "ethnically challenged"
Are you and Mike suggesting that we start using the rules of baseball to play chess games? That certainly would be a novel approach, but I'm afraid it might be a bit confusing.
Not at all. Im just saying its a fun commercial, combining chess and baseball. If youre playing either and dont know the rules, thats on you, not the commercial or games.
That's exactly my point. Maybe you know not to pay any attention to the rules aspect of the commercial, but how many of the little scholastic kiddies have actually read the rule book? Probably almost none of them. They don't need to be viewing chess commercials that are telling them it's OK to break a fundamental rule of chess.
If you and or your parents did not take the time to explain some simple rules of the game, that is your fault. besides all that...comon sense should tell you that you dont help people out during a game. We all know cheating happens, but to blame a fun commercial for peoples inability to learn and understand the rules is blamestorming, and not taking responsibility.
OK, fine. To he77 with the kiddies, I can barely tolerate them anyway. If they break the rules, let's drum them out of the corps. Let 'em learn the hard way.