One of the most social
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on Tue, 12/02/2008 at 11:36am.
I've come to the conclusion that Chess. com has to be one of the most social sites that I've ever been apart of. I have a myspace, and a facebook, a blogger account, and all that but those are all people that I know in the real world, where as chess.com I signed up simply thinking it was a gaming site with no relationship w/ anyone on this site, but yet have met alot of extremely real and nice people. People who have helped me learn quite a bit about the game and advance my skills.
I've learned that people that play chess TEND to be different than most. In other sports you have an aggressive prideful competitiveness, where as in chess while you have competition you have humbleness and helpfulness, it's actually.............................."love" it truly is. While i'm hesistant and most probably wouldn't use this word about strangers, but as far as I'm concerned it cannot be denied. And this isn't something that seems to be racial or gender specific, this chess-mentality seems to cross all boundaries, except for maybe the lower age bracket (early teens).
I wish more people played chess especially here in the northeast because this mentality is something more people need. This mentality is something that politicians and upper management of companies needs to adopt. Maybe we wouldn't be in the mess we're in if these people played chess avidly. But you never know. Maybe it wouldn't even change a thing.