I have no idea if you are being serious or not, but just in case you are, I'll give you a spoiler: they are not going to implement a mean face icon for people with takebacks off.
@gatorvalle
Who's angry?
Chess competition has nothing to do with money and is actually much more competitive than the poker circuit (I've played tournaments in both).
""It's Just A Game" and if it's more than a game to you then you're playing chess for the wrong reasons."
That's one of the dumbest things I've read in a chess forum. It's like a somebody saying football is just a game, why you trying to win so much... why you practicing, why spend so much time on playing it...
Your mean face happy face idea sounds like you're 10 years old or something.. maybe you are.
Man I'm getting tired of explaining chess to noobs, I'm close to giving up, somebody take over :)
Who's angry?
Chess competition has nothing to do with money and is actually much more competitive than the poker circuit (I've played tournaments in both).
""It's Just A Game" and if it's more than a game to you then you're playing chess for the wrong reasons."
That's one of the dumbest things I've read in a chess forum. It's like a somebody saying football is just a game, why you trying to win so much... why you practicing, why spend so much time on playing it...
Your mean face happy face idea sounds like you're 10 years old or something.. maybe you are.
Man I'm getting tired of explaining chess to noobs, I'm close to giving up, somebody take over :)
@DunnoItAll you're it :P
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@CafeMorphy
No, I find chess very, very fun and not really, end all, be all, I just find it simply fun, great for the mind, great for a past time. You need a hugging machine next to you while you play chess, it's just an icon that informs everyone that you take this board game very, very, very, very, very, very, serious.
I'm 36yrs old and esports sportsmanship was great for the casual player, again, it's just a game, nothing more but a board game.
You mention you play poker, which is a different imo, but you play essentially the way you live, passive aggressive like me or intensively aggressive like a maniac.
An icon of your choice will solve this problem, essentially separating the thousands of players who visit this really cool chess site, at the end of the day, you got to play for the fun of the game, no?
Don't disrespect 10 year old chess players, they just might be masters lol
No, I find chess very, very fun and not really, end all, be all, I just find it simply fun, great for the mind, great for a past time. You need a hugging machine next to you while you play chess, it's just an icon that informs everyone that you take this board game very, very, very, very, very, very, serious.
I'm 36yrs old and esports sportsmanship was great for the casual player, again, it's just a game, nothing more but a board game.
You mention you play poker, which is a different imo, but you play essentially the way you live, passive aggressive like me or intensively aggressive like a maniac.
An icon of your choice will solve this problem, essentially separating the thousands of players who visit this really cool chess site, at the end of the day, you got to play for the fun of the game, no?
Don't disrespect 10 year old chess players, they just might be masters lol
Well then, I am out of this trolling take-back topic where a few try to wag the dog. I'm gonna play chess fair according to the official rules and other weird home-made ideas are not my beer.
I'm not trolling, I assure you.
My final thought, remove the take back option. Settled.
Oh and can lichess please have Muay Thai Boxing music playing while I watch Blitz games?
My final thought, remove the take back option. Settled.
Oh and can lichess please have Muay Thai Boxing music playing while I watch Blitz games?
Playing chess according to the official rules seems to be a sensible idea.
@CafeMorphy , honestly it's a bit bizarre for you to insinuate I'm trolling because you don't like my analogy because it's not comparing apples to apples, and then turn around and provide an analogy that's so obviously bad. You honestly think that "moving a finger to click a takeback button" is an apples-to-apples comparison with "one footballer mis-kicking the ball (cause he didn't tie his shoe properly) and asking to stop everything, so that he can kick the ball again"?
I mean, look, we have an honest disagreement, and no analogy is perfect, but to claim my analogy is terrible and turn around with that analogy is just straight up being intellectually dishonest. It's a button. You click it. Online and not in real life. Not on TV and not playing for millions of dollars. It's an accident related to hardware that is different from skill in kicking a ball. These things are actually relevant. And my analogy is better than yours in these relevant ways. If you drop a $100 it's technically your fault. But it's also incredibly easy to just return it. You don't have to restart a play on a football field. You just hand it over. But if you take life seriously in a certain Darwinian "game of life" competition sort of way, you can rationalize like a sociopath that you have every right to take the $100. The analogy only really applies for narrow cases where it is really obvious that a misclick was a misclick, and in slow time controls, but that's all I've been talking about this whole time anyways.
@Sarg0n , you have to at least admit that there are legitimate reasons the rules for OTB chess might be different from online chess, in particular in OTB chess there is literally no such thing as a mislick. So you have to *invent* a rule for online chess. It's not like there is some magic online chess constitution handed down from God. In the case of online chess, the *reason* for the rules are to prevent the abuses we've discussed. And you should at least admit that in cases where a misclick is totally obvious, then you know that those abuses are not occurring, and you might consider that there are good reasons for deviating someone from OTB rules if you value chess tactics and strategy over finger dexterity and computer hardware. I mean, have you considered that some online players might have Parkinson's?
I mean, look, we have an honest disagreement, and no analogy is perfect, but to claim my analogy is terrible and turn around with that analogy is just straight up being intellectually dishonest. It's a button. You click it. Online and not in real life. Not on TV and not playing for millions of dollars. It's an accident related to hardware that is different from skill in kicking a ball. These things are actually relevant. And my analogy is better than yours in these relevant ways. If you drop a $100 it's technically your fault. But it's also incredibly easy to just return it. You don't have to restart a play on a football field. You just hand it over. But if you take life seriously in a certain Darwinian "game of life" competition sort of way, you can rationalize like a sociopath that you have every right to take the $100. The analogy only really applies for narrow cases where it is really obvious that a misclick was a misclick, and in slow time controls, but that's all I've been talking about this whole time anyways.
@Sarg0n , you have to at least admit that there are legitimate reasons the rules for OTB chess might be different from online chess, in particular in OTB chess there is literally no such thing as a mislick. So you have to *invent* a rule for online chess. It's not like there is some magic online chess constitution handed down from God. In the case of online chess, the *reason* for the rules are to prevent the abuses we've discussed. And you should at least admit that in cases where a misclick is totally obvious, then you know that those abuses are not occurring, and you might consider that there are good reasons for deviating someone from OTB rules if you value chess tactics and strategy over finger dexterity and computer hardware. I mean, have you considered that some online players might have Parkinson's?
dude, I'm not even reading all of that... if you're not a troll you're completely clueless about sports and competition.
End of story, I wish you all the best in your chess :)
End of story, I wish you all the best in your chess :)
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