Author: KarinsDad
Date: 12:33:37 08/24/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 15:27:09, Mark Young wrote: [snip] >>> Nobody is going to give one gram of tea for each rating point you have in a >>>chess server, and if somebody does please tell me because I would be interested >>>in that deal (: >>> >> >>you are wrong there. On the servers, during events, people look at the ones >>that are kibitzing analysis, and they take comments from a 2200+ player much >>more seriously than they do comments from a 1600 player. So this boils down >>to 'respect' even if it isn't 'deserved.'... >> >>that's mainly what it is about... you know that everyone will notice your >>high rating and think you are a good player, whether you are or not... > >So it boils down to EGO...on both sides. Heaven forbid a 1600 rated player >getting the respect of +2200 player on a chess server. And I thought it was just >stupid for people to waste their time making web pages and posting such nonsense >in a rant against cheaters on chess servers. But your words have shown me just >how important this cause should be to all of us. It's not that it is important (not very), it's that this is a fact of life. On a chess server, people have two ways to know something about you: what you say and what your rating is. The second one is obvious. The first one takes a bit of time to form an opinion. KarinsDad :)
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