I agree with you.
RHP is an international community with a large variety of ages and
cultures represented. It's made up of mostly real great people, but
unfortunately an occasional person will discover the site and attempt
to create controversy, or play silly games to get attention.
It's happened before, it's going on right now, and unfortunately it will
happen in the future.
If they are ignored long enough, they will go away. Ignoring them is
the hard part. Moderators can hopefully be part of the solution.
In case anyone is interested, I played one game with AttilaChess a
few days before the tournament started, and here is an exact
transcript of the dialog that we had during the game. It's difficult to
believe this is the same person that is currently on center-stage. But
I also have seen some of his forum posts, so it is definitely
strange... He accepted an open invite created by me, with AttilaChess
playing white:
1 White Thanks!! 🙂
1 Black No problem. Where are you located? I'm in Wyoming (US)
2 White I'm in Albuquerque, NM USA
2 Black Been through there a few times... Nice place! Are you signed
up for the tournament?
3 White Yes, sir! I sure am! 🙂
3 Black Me too. Should be interesting...
4 White Yup!
6 White Oh my gosh! Some kind of bullet trick on The World's
Greatest Magic II ...
6 Black just saw in the forum where they have you down as playing
for the ROW team. Is that correct?
7 White The ROW team? I don't really follow the forum. What's the
ROW team?
7 Black Rest of the World If you intended to play for the USA team,
you probably need to let them know.
8 White Thanks! Nah, the ROW team is fine. 🙂
8 Black It's set up for two teams, the USA team against the rest of
the world, with Schliemann as captain of the US team and Sintubin as
captain for the rest of the world.
9 White Oh, okay! Thank you very mich for the clarification! What's
your name by the way? My name is Attila.
9 Black Marc
11 White Nice to meet ya, Marc! Hey, I said mich instead of much
earlier! Did you laugh? haha I always type mich. I don't know why. LOL
Dang. There are some beautiful babes on this Magic show!
11 Black Is Attila your real name? Just curious..
12 White Yes, sir. I was born in Hungary, that's why. And I was raised
in Germany. Well, I'll be back later, Mr. Miller! Enjoy the rest of your
weekend!!
12 Black OK. You too.
14 White I'm back! I watered my trees in my backyard.
14 Black Looks like I'm in trouble already.
15 White We're only playing for fun. Let's enjoy the game. 🙂
15 Black True enough! I think what I really need to do is study up on
some openings... It might help my game.
16 White You should study Paul Morphy's games. That guy was a
GENIUS!!! He lived in the 1800s, and he could play 10 blindfolded
games simultaneously AND win them ALL! He was a chess genius even
at a young age!
17 White No one knows.........................what the Matrix is........
17 Black Gotta quit for now. Back in a little while.
18 White Alrighty! Thanks for letting me know, Marc!
22 White How dare you.....lol
22 Black lost my head there, for a second...
23 White No, you didn't! haha That was a good move. 🙂
23 Black Well, this isn't one of my better games. That's for sure...
Shortly after move 23 I decided the game was lost and I resigned,
thanking him for a good game.
Is this the same guy?
regards, Marc
If you had seen the nasty stuff he tried to post you would have known
it as well...he also brought up the PMorphy - Knightmare_NJ game with
alot of NASTY comments about Paul.
The style is exactly the same...and the comments about people
having deviant lifestyles although they do not is classic of what he was
saying before.
This person will keep hopping back in until they block his I.P.
Dave