ICC has more tools than the Sears hardware department
when i play a game of chess online, i honestly appreciate the opponents time. especially when they are rated higher than me and i challenge them, i feel like they are taking their time to play me, even though its probably a waste, and i appreciate it.
because of this, i have an automatic response which pops up as soon as my game has ended. something to the effect of “thanks for playing a game, i hope you had fun.”
i also want to kind of remind people that this is a game, a fun way to pass the time, it signifies nothing.
my (and your) ICC rating means nothing to anyone. its the superfluous nipple of numbers, there but no real purpose.
it amazes me the weird replies i get after a game. after i lose, usually they write and say “yes, i had a great time!” of course you did, you won. its odd they say it though, it’s almost like “yeah, you suck, i loved it!” i have yet to have someone say they had a good time after they lost.
i have had people who won and then told me how i suck and they are great, bullies and trash talkers. really? is your life so miserable beating someone online in a game is all you have? grow up, beat your wife and dog and children, and have a nice life. sorry about your penis.
when they lose, i’ve gotten “fuck you,” i’ve been put on no play lists, accused of cheating, and had some other not too nice responses.
my tag is chainsmoke, and i get a large number of people who send me the “smoking is bad for you, stop smoking” messages. really? you think i should? thanks doc, this is the first i’ve heard that smoking is bad, i guess i will quit now cause you said to. i just have to start first.
i am always suspect of the guys who play a 5 minute or less blitz game, and take up to 10 seconds for each of the first 5 or 6 moves. i can only imagine some kid or guy sitting with his “beat the sicilian” book open, furiously flipping pages to see what the next move should be. really, i dont trust half of them and usually think they are cheating when that happens.
one guy actually put me on his no play list because i open with 1d4. we would start, i would play 1 d4, he would abort. twice this happened, then he sent me a message saying “you are on my noplay list, i dont waste time with boring 1d4 players.” i hope he doesnt play some of those boring grandmasters at some of those boring tournaments.
then there is the guys rated higher than me who play me in a rated game, they win, then they keep on challenging me, over and over, i guess to show me how they can beat someone rated 300 points lower then they are. usually by the 4th game (yes, i keep on playing, i dont care) i make retarded moves on purpose, then resign, and they keep on challenging me to a rated game. i play, lose, wash, rinse, repeat, until they get bored or annoyed or realize i’m not even playing, then i end up on a no play list. i didnt challenge them, i wasnt wasting thier time, why put me on a no play list? saves me the time to put them on the list, i guess.
there is a small town’s worth of people who put their queen en pris, i take it, they ask for a takeback, a draw, abort the game, get angry when i dont do anything, and then disconnect.
it just strikes me as scary how many people on the other side of the screen appear to have their whole life wrapped up in it, how they seem to define themselves by their ICC rating or how well they play chess.
there are some way cool folks, more than the pathetic mental cases, but the fagtards seem to be the ones who really stick out, come to the surface, have the presence.
i gotta say, i think i like them for the same reason i have to watch “i love money 2″ or any of the vh1 reality shows. amazing how humans can act and be and still manage to live so many years. you would think they would have been weeded out by now, but oh no.
they are out there. and playing chess on ICC.
Rolling Pawns said,
February 10, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I enjoyed your post, I think you are getting into your best shape.
Yeah, there are a few weirdos there.
The worst (and the funniest ) case of communicating online happened with me on chess.com. I won a blitz game with higher rated guy and right after that I got “fuck you”, and few other things, worse than that, and he disconnected. Usually I ignore it, but this time it got me. I wanted to send him a “message”, but he gets them only from his friends. OK, I send all this to “abuse” and soon receive an answer: “We are very sorry, but we don’t deal with the cases of online private communication, etc…” So, they give me a link to info – how to block him. I am not satisfied, so I get an idea. You can send a trophy to somebody in admiration of his/her good play. So, I found in their stock a couple of trophies, one of them was a snail, another some small, nasty looking animal and send them to him with a notes, saying something like “to an idiot, that can’t stand losing” and so on …. These trophies appeared in his public profile and if you click it, you can see the note.
likesforests said,
February 10, 2009 at 7:03 pm
You can’t let such people bother you. You can usually limit your exposure to them by altering your formula (who you are willing to play).
bulldoggy said,
February 10, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Doesn’t ICC charge you to play chess? Why not just use FICS instead?
PawnShaman said,
February 11, 2009 at 12:10 pm
You may have touched on genius with a chess reality show. Tantrums, fights, bikinis, drugs. Although old men in bikinis could tank the ratings. It would be fun to watch anyway. So do you recommend ICC? Ive been contemplating it for about 3yrs now.
Mr. Bently said,
February 11, 2009 at 3:06 pm
C.L.
Is Mrs. Chessloser still around?
Mr. Bently
tanc(happyhippo) said,
February 11, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Wow. That’s a first. 1.d4 players are boring?
Heck, when someone opens with 1.d4, Black can play sharp openings like the Semi-Slav, KID, Grunfeld, Benko, Benoni and NID and take the fight to them.
Svetozar Gilgoric is a well-known 1.d4 player with both colours and his play is VERY FAR from boring.
blunderprone said,
February 11, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Yeah I got black listed by ” no d4 ” guy too. WTF? me boring? What about limiting yourself to only 1.e4 as BLACK? Now Who’s boring fucktard?
chessed said,
February 12, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Now those KI Reversed players are boring, us 1.d4 guys aren’t.
Actually there are a lot of openings I play with the premise of boring my opponent into making a mistake – but the other choice is study the opening a lot more than I have.
You’re discouraging me from playing on icc again (I’m wsm if you ever see me)
Sam said,
February 14, 2009 at 10:59 pm
First a quick welcome back.
Now, as the issue you have talked about above is much the same reason I don’t play ICC. Oh I also don’t play ICC because of the interface. It’s just is not apealing to me. So were do I play? I play on Chessbase. The Fritz interface is easy and it have more feature than I know what to do with. Ya, for the people who say, why pay for it? What ever. The way I look at it for the 35 bucks it’s a cheep years worth of entertainment. Don’t get me wrong there are still all the assholes in Chessbase as in ICC, but for some reason I find there are less. I also find there are less cheaters. It my be just me. If your up to a game check me out my take is fmcejb. Keep up the bloging, I enjoy your writing.
dont smoke said,
February 15, 2009 at 4:06 pm
They do have a point about smoking though. Do you ever meet anyone who smoked for many years and says “gee, I’m glad I did that to my wallet and my health” ?
Seriously, stop smoking, you’ll be blogging for your friends much longer that way.
Not trying to give you a hard time, just a concerned non smoker.
Blue Devil Knight said,
February 16, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Hey chessloser, did you hear that smoking can cause lung cancer? I didn’t know if you had heard about this, so I thought I should tell you.
Also, if you have the habit of dropping anvils on your head, did you hear that can actually be bad for you? Seriously, I know it is hard to believe so I thought in case you like to do that I should let you know you should probably stop.
I used to have the habit of taunting wild rattlesnakes by plucking their face with my finger. I thought there was no problem with it, but wouldn’t ya’ know it my doctor said it was actually dangerous to get bitten by a poisonous snake! Holy shit. So, in case you like to do that, I wanted to let you know that playing with wild poisonous snakes is just not very good for you.
I hope my health tips have been helpful.
chessloser said,
February 16, 2009 at 4:56 pm
i play on FICS (my name on FICS is mandalorian) but i prefer the ICC interface to FICS, stritcly an aesthetic appeal to me.
yeah i recommend ICC, i like it, but that is just me.
me and mrs chessloser are kind of trying to work it out, back together for now.
i dont smoke. (well, not anymore, except while i was traveling i was at about a pack a day, but it was so cheap, you couldn’t afford NOT to smoke. my handle, chainsmoke, comes from a mountain biking video of the same name. get it? bicycle chain/chainsmoke/actually smoking? thanks for your concern though.
i will still drop anvils on my head though. i havent seen any hard scientific proof on that one.
Blue Devil Knight said,
February 17, 2009 at 1:38 pm
I am a spammer that posts stupid replies to everyones comments that over-emphasize their point because I’m too lazy to think up my own stuff.
Polly said,
February 17, 2009 at 3:13 pm
I used to play in a hearts league online. Some of the people were totally nuts. They’d accuse people of cheating, or sending IMs to other people at the table. I’d get cursed at if I played what they thought was the wrong card. It’s amazing what assholes people can be when they hide behind a screen name .
I don’t play much internet chess. I suck at blitz, and hang stuff because I don’t see the board as well as I do with a real chess set. However I’ve never abandoned a game. Online ratings are a joke.
Blue Devil Knight said,
June 26, 2009 at 6:37 am
BD Impersonator: LOL, if imitation and parody is stupid, where does that leave you?