You Need to Cheat to Win.

WARNING!! NON CHESS RELATED RANT!! READ NO FURTHER IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT!!

Life is NOT fair. At every turn, there is someone waiting to bonk you over the head with a 2 by 4--stab you in the back--steal your money--steal your wife--KILL you.Here in America, there are the haves and the have nots. Capitalistic societies like ours create a HUGE separation of classes. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The MAN always wants to keep you down and beats you back down if you try to rise up. They stack the cards against you. The MAN has legions of lawyers and policy makers writing laws and policies to benefit them at YOUR expense.

What can you do? Beat them at their own game, that's what. If it means "breaking the rules" DO IT. Now, I know there will be a lot of people here who would like to see me DELETED for making such a statement, and THOSE people are part of the problem. Can anyone say SUBJUGATION? I guarantee there is not one person here who has never cheated at one thing or another in their life. You can substitute cheating with stealing. From "forgetting" to take the calculator out of your pocket before you left work and then just keeping it, to NOT telling the fast food clerk that she gave you TOO much money back, to outright NOT PAYING for the food you eat on break because you work at a grocery store and rationalize it as a company "perk". No one in life is a saint.

Sometimes, in order to get ahead, rules MUST bent and/or broken. I choose to do both in life. I speed when I drive because it's all about ME. I want to get from A to B FASTER than you. My company is currently cutting my hours down to 35 per week from 40 just so MANAGEMENT can get a bonus at the end of the quarter for coming in under budget. Of course, management's hours are NOT cut, so in my world, THEY MUST PAY FOR THEIR GREED. If I somehow "forget" that I have a copy of INDESIGN (a graphic art program) in my briefcase and "accidentally" take it home and by some fluke this $500 program winds up on my hard-drive, well, huh, jeez, that's just too bad. If I "forget" to punch out for my lunch and then fall asleep in my car for an hour and a half but tell HR I only took a 30 minute lunch, well, um, I call that GETTING EVEN. They OWE it to me.

Hey, what's this? Hold on. How did this 1 GIG RAM stick get in my pocket? Well, I better install it in my comp, does no good in my pocket. Sometimes, no matter how HARD you try, no matter how much effort you put in, there will be SOMEONE waiting to chop you down...undermine what you are trying to accomplish. And you will fail. The truly successful people in life have not just STEPPED on other people's toes, they have CRUSHED them.

There is a saying that good guys finish last, and that saying exists because it happens more often than not. The hot blonde babe DOES NOT want the mild mannered, polite, door opening gentleman, she wants the bad boy rock star. She wants drama. She wants DANGER. I got sick of getting beat at chess so I resorted to cheating. Now I win. I'm the Rock Star. I'm a winner.

Most laws on the books BENEFIT the criminals. For example, if all forms of guns are banned, the law abiding citizens will turn theirs in (because they're law abiding) but the criminals wont (because they're criminals). An evening walk in the park = MUGGED. You need to level the playing field. That's why I carry a little paperweight in my pocket whenever I go out. Never mind that this brass paper weight is in the form of brass knuckles, but you can NEVER allow anyone to get the upper hand, or a victim you will be.

Lie, Cheat, Steal? We all do it on a daily basis. There are times when it is inappropriate however. My rationilization is this. If there is no immediate victim, it is OK. Once, I witnessed an older, rather well-dressed lady drop $40 on the casino floor. She continued to walk around the corner and was gone. I needed the money more than she did. There was no one around and I could have easily stepped on it, bent down to tie my shoe, and BAM, be $40 richer. But I tracked her down and RETURNED it to her. I do have a conscience. But, when there are BOXES of Flash Drives sitting in a corner at work, who gets hurt when one finds its way into my pocket? Who is the victim? AHHHH dont give me this CRAP that we're all going to pay for it through higher prices. Multi-million $$ corporations have deep pockets. They have gouged the public and their employees for years so that the shareholders can retire at 50 years old with a 30 million severance package and live in luxury in one of their 8 mansions across the globe. I dont think they'll miss a few items here and there. Do you?

I could go on FOREVER. But this post is getting a bit long. BOTTOM LINE: Act in your own self interest. Victimless crimes hurt no one. Do what it takes to get the upperhand and you'll be a winner just like me.

I haven't cheated.

Never? At anything? Never written answers on your hand to get a better grade on a test? Never told a lie to get out of punishment? Never drank a beer before you hit 21 (I'm not sure how old you are, I'm too lazy to look at your profile). Never took something that didn't belong to you? I am skeptical.

I feel like that with every job i have. i agree with every thing that is spoken about good job. knew i wasn't bye myself on this topic

Wrong forum....this is the chess forum....you are trolling the wrong spot.

why if you have contacts from your 'famous last name' that, 'the average slob does not have' are you on an hourly pay rate and work for people that are cutting your hours?

Answer: I am NOT famous. I have connections DUE to my last name. One of my forefathers was semi-famous (not celebrity). I had the option to be hourly or salary. I chose hourly because ANYONE knows that hourly is better for a slacker like myself. The system can be beaten when you're on the clock. I work at a constant 60% output. I take nearly twice as long to do the job as other people. My seniority protects me. I am smarter than you think.

Crikey. I feel rather sullen now, amidst this cornucopia of cheats and lies. Alas, 'twas erronous judgment on my behalf to imagine that decency and honesty were appropriate behavioral attributes. I'd like to thank cheater_1 for setting me straight. I shall follow his advice, and perhaps I'll have a slightly fatter wallet, albeit at the cost of a slightly colder soul.

What to do to pick myself up from this slump? Ah-ha! I shall play some chess!

RyanMK - is that a Manchester United badge I spy on your avatar? Truely, their reach is global...

off-topic. (and boring)

 Apologies.

I have never cheated. I have never drank beer or any form of alcohol what so ever. I have never even studied for a test, never mind taking the time to write answers on my hand, and I figure whoever I'm lying to would eventually find out, and decide to tell the truth.

Edit: Yes ErrantDeeds, it is a Man U badge. Who do you like?

Someone is watching too many movies! To be a middle/upper class male on the states is getting really hard on you I see. But i won't judge or tell all the point's where you are wrong and there are lots of them! Before going in all that cry oh my life sucks so I lie I steal I cheat... Watch the discovery channel or try something bold and read! About people in the world who really have it hard on them. For example, there are places in Africa where babies are sold on the age of 3/4 by theyr own families to fishermans as slaves, to work under the sea catching the nets, what happens there, obviously they die... And for how much, well the guys generally promise 500 american dollars! but ,ost of the times they give like 20 or 50 ahead then disappear, yes your life really must suck compared to those...

Anyway you will say/think to bad for them but what about my story, it as nothing to do with them!

Thats True and False, you do are related, you me the pope everyone, everything is connected, the fact that we can be here writting and reading this bullsh*t is due to what you call your "capitalist" society that allow this freedom due to the exploration of those fishermans in Africa, so you are a slave owner, probaably much more then they are.

What to do then, all anyone can do is just try and change little acts in theyr life for the better, and to read, ignorance is one of the causes of major problems.

As for the lies part Emmanuel Kant had a strong opinion about it:

"A man should never lie"

by that he mean something like what your president, Lincoln said:

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master."

Since you gave yourself the trouble of writing so many stuff I also toke some time to explain where just maybe you ain't completely right, anyway have fun with the RAM! but remember that you have it due to the kid that works 20 hours a day in a Tay factory...

All i can say is have fun playing with the Devil for eternity since that's where you are headed.

you don't need to cheat chess cheater to win at a game of chess

WEll, if you don't like capitalism, convert to comunism. Oh yes, the Big Brother will watch you comrade...

Sorry for the slide. But I think you are very wrong. When we steal others, we are damaging them. Treat others like you expect them to treat you.

You missed the post where he said he was lazy. :)

you won on time?

Hey time management is as important as everything else. 3 ways to lose are checkmate, resign, flag. They all show up as 1-0. 

I'll just copy paste this:

"Cheating is not victimless and not akin to speeding. When you speed, it doesn't slow down the cars around you and it's not immoral. Cheating in chess steals the just results from other, often hard working players with actual skill. It greatly hurts chess as a whole while poisoning communities by creating an atmosphere of distrust. Cheating is flagrantly immoral and unfair - not to mention empty and pathetic. After all, only an ignorant fool removed from reality can actually claim to be good when the moves his username makes are not his own but through illegal assistance. It doesn't matter if you've faced a cheater, so have I. Two wrongs don't make a right and none of us owe anything to you. There is absolutely no justification regardless if you're caught or not. Follow the golden rule. I have no respect for cheaters and never will. It is disgusting.

If you enjoy computer chess, there are plenty of ways to play against people or engines without vilolating the expectations of honesty and the terms of service we have all agreed to (which clearly prohibit cheating be it through chess engines, having someone else play your moves, etc.). FICS, ICC and Playchess all have the option for special computer accounts which can be played by anyone. I have even played several engines myself. I don't mind that as long as it's labeled appropriately. Cheaters just prove themselves too feeble-minded to compete in either world."

BTW: I realize this isn't you, in ideas or personality, but serves as a way to generate discussion. Although, I don't think you have to go about it this way.

To  win. Why else would you want to do it?