Consider yourself our mate
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on Sat, 05/24/2008 at 2:46am.
Remember the song from Oliver? "Consider yourself our mate, consider yourself one of the family"? It's a bit like that on chess.com.
I'm always pleased when somebody asks me to place them on my friends list. It usually happens after a game and probably means one of three things: either I was friendly during the game, or they are friendly themselves, or I was such an easy-beat that they don't want me to get away without the chance of giving me another hiding.
While my friends list is probably a lot smaller than many (most?) it is certainly a sampling of the world's population with people from the US, Mexico and Canada, Russia, Hungary, Sweden, the UK and Ireland, the Philippines (where the Pinoys live) and, of course, the Land of Oz.
Considering chess is such an anti-social game it seems remarkably easy to make friends on line. I hope there'll be many more.