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You are so cool! You say the things that I have been promoting for years, and that I thought I was alone with, apart from my four dearest and closest friends. I travel miles to give a small chemist all of my toiletry business, since he ONCE allowed me to be a late customer to buy medicine for my sick little girl! She is 21 now, so he's earned himself a good bit for that one bit of kindness and consideration. I am, because of my medical condition, attended by four nurses/carers throughout the day. One cannot continually tell some of them how much they are contributing to your life, but a regular letter expressing same goes to their employer expressing the respect and appreciation I have for them! I think it applys with most things. What you give, is tenfold more rewarding than what you get. In love, in everything x keep writing such beautiful things x

Paula...you're awesome!!!

Onemorecup,

I love reading everything I have found that you have written. You have a good message and you do it so well. You have a lot of class and I look forward to continuing to interact with you in the hope that it rubs off.

I wrote Eric tonight to thank him for his efforts creating Chess.com. I mentioned you glowingly.  (500/2)

Also, before I noticed this blog, I had just visited your homepage. I left a reply. (re:kiss) Maybe your effect is already beginning to tip the loopsided equasion.   (500/3)

Keep it up. I want to continue our interaction until I have so much class I am mistaken for Cary Grant. It may take awhile. Be patient.

I created my own trophys for you but have yet to figure out how to present them here. I cannot copy and paste from "my pictures" into the message box.

So here's to you:   my "blog trophy"    Onemorecup: Queen of Class!!! 

Cheers, js

Hey there Vance917,

Thank you indeed for taking the time to respond; moreover, I'm glad that you found the message positive. However, my count has you at 495 to go and no way, not a hard time at all.

I agree with your assessment regarding the folks here at Chess.com; most of the people I've played more than once (tournaments, etc.) are on my "Friends" list and it is certainly because of the demeanor they have toward the game and how well they are too me.

In the heat of battle, I mean endgame time, I had an opponent remind me that I still had a 'pin' at e3! Now that's cool; I think it's a honorable thing to help someone out rather than do the otherwise. I think that the management and ownership here at this site encourages folks to be friends and civil to each other.

Btw, the statistic 500:1 is conservative; I lowered the real ratio because I didn't think people would believe it! CHEERS mate!

pc

Excellent blog!  Very well done!  Well written, to the point, and a positive message to boot!  OK, just 497 to go!  OK, sorry, not trying to give you a hard time.  I really did like what you wrote.  But you cannot believe everything that you read.  That 500-to-one statistic does not sound too plausible, especially considering how well Dale Carnegie books still sell, all these years later.  I have been the lucky recipient of many more compliments on this site than complaints, and I have tried to reciprocate.  There are many, many positive people, both here in Chess.com and in the world at large.  Of course there are also the recalcitrant misanthropes who never have a kind word to say to anybody.  Are we to believe that there are 500 of the latter for every one of the former?  Or that that latter are that much more talkative?  Or some combination thereof?  At any rate, you have catalyzed me, and hopefully others, to re-double our efforts to offer praise and thanks when deserved, and not just the fourth Thursday of November (Thanksgiving in the US, for those who don't know).