Author: Mark Young
Date: 13:47:39 08/24/99
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On August 24, 1999 at 15:33:37, KarinsDad wrote: >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 rating of a person tells me nothing about them as a person other then they are good at chess or not so good. I have been in chess to long to swallow that statment. The second one is obvious. The first one takes a bit of >time to form an opinion. > >KarinsDad :)
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