11 Aug 10
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyAre you stating that there is a proper way and any other way is improper?
Chess etiquette rules are chess etiquette rules... irrespective of which players observe
and respect them and which don't. Chess prowess in no way defines poise or manners.
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11 Aug 10
Originally posted by gambit3Let's break the news gently. Yes, Gambit3, genteel social considerations and civilized protocols still remain operative within a few global villages and green earth corners of the waist high/anything goes culture of a self destructing world.
Are you stating that there is a proper way and any other way is improper?
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyTo imply that the mere passing of time increases the value of a lone opinion is questionable. To claim that anyone disagreeing with a professed opinion suffers from a failure to apprehend is vacuous.
Paul, what you've heard or haven't heard in your still tender/impressionable years is totally inconsequential. Chess courtesy was alive and well before we were even born and it will still be here after we're gone. All we do is apprehend it or not. Period. You may enjoy meeting one of my remarkable mentors, Russian born E.M. Reubens, who taught me proper ...[text shortened]...
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I could just as easily suggest that your lone voice indicates a failure to grasp (or should I say "apprehend" ) the relevance of the situation, but that would be equally vacuous on my part. It is so easy to be righteously assertive on the (mostly) anonymous internet, that is is sometimes hard for us to resist the temptation-but I don't think that excuses it.
Age is merely a metric of time. It is possible that with aging, you have gained wisdom, but my experience is that the truly wise are recognized by others, while those who think themselves wise as ordained by the calendar, and especially those who are arrogant or assertive about their own wisdom compared to others, may not be as far along as they think.
I don't think you are in a position to determine what is inconsequential, but you think you are, so have fun with it! Pass judgment on others to your heart's content.
11 Aug 10
Originally posted by Paul LeggettThanks, Paul, for the teachable moment (labored generalizations and tedious cadence notwithstanding). Cheers.
To imply that the mere passing of time increases the value of a lone opinion is questionable. To claim that anyone disagreeing with a professed opinion suffers from a failure to apprehend is vacuous.
I could just as easily suggest that your lone voice indicates a failure to grasp (or should I say "apprehend" ) the relevance of the situation, but th ...[text shortened]... t you think you are, so have fun with it! Pass judgment on others to your heart's content.
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11 Aug 10
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI knew you couldn't help yourself, and I was waiting to see what form it would take. You didn't disappoint!
Thanks, Paul, for the teachable moment (labored generalizations and tedious cadence notwithstanding). Cheers.
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12 Aug 10
Originally posted by Paul LeggettStill tedious, Paul. Whatever your beef may be, please let it
I knew you couldn't help yourself, and I was waiting to see what form it would take. You didn't disappoint!
go out of respect for both the thread and its author. Thanks.
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12 Aug 10
I played GM Spassky, he put his Knights face forward, as did I.
Apparently no one ever taught Boris proper ettiquette either.
If you want your Knights sidewise feel free to adjust on your move. I will do the same on mine.
As far as GP's trick is concerned, if I am looking "at" the pieces on the board and not the squares, I have a bigger problem.
12 Aug 10
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyHi Paul,
You surprise me, Paul, in your failure to have grasped a time honored courtesy.
I should have let this distraction (a personal observation that probably should have been directed to me in a PM, if it truly was necessary to make) from your thread go without attention, but instead I contributed to it. I certainly know better, so I have no excuse. Sorry about that!
Paul
12 Aug 10
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"I can't help contrasting chess, among other sports and games, with golf. Now: I dislike golf, but you gotta admit, if you want to see gentlemanly behaviour (I don't know the female equivalent), and sporting courtesy, it is hard to go past professional golfers. Why can't we all be like that? ~2009 Forum Post at GameKnot
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