I pray Spain beat the Netherlands, the only team of dirty divers that made it far this tournament.

I agree completely. Mygames were before and after FIFA matches. I lost when my favorite teams lost too :-(

Must be why I have been winning a little more.  Thought I was just getting  better.

so crazy. :) btw, the first image is broken...

Now, back to normal FIFA World Cup shape :).

For those of you enjoying the soccer, or 'football', I invite you to look at my latest blog posts on the topic.

Why I hate soccer, part 1

Why I hate soccer (and FIFA), part 2

Why I hate soccer, part 3

FIFA, The Roman Catholic Church, The Taliban, and Scientology

;)

With Kolejorz winning the Polish Championship this year, things must be exciting soccer-wise in Poznan...

For those of you interested in soccer, aka, FOOTBALL, here is my latest blog post on FIFA.

http://blog.chess.com/SpaceOddity/why-i-hate-soccer

How could i forget to finish on a high note?!? SHAME ON ME- Well done to the whole team and instructors as well !

Anything i might be of help, would be my pleasure.

Raspect !

Well, if most people were to be like me, football would be a game in risks of extinction, as i have never ever been a big fan of footbal; Apart from the national team mAJOR(lol) GAMES( if its a really important decisive one...THEN and ONLY THEN ill watch !), never really waste time with it !! Give me a footbal, and the story will change; but cant affor to waste time watching it, though ! All my life i said-Chess is my favourite sport( ill say the same thing about arts, about science, and about leisure/entertaining/board games, though lol lol eh eh middle name is Chesster ! lol).

Anyway, theres no other website on the net as CHESS.COM- And thats a fact !

So, it's only a shame that the game server isnt better than it actually is at the moment( crashes quite often...Like every 5 minutes, or at least stutters in a way that makes you lose game after game, and with it rating points ! Thats the only reason why i dont play here, and allowed my brother and friends to play in my name, not worrying at all about my "live chess rating", being the online chess rating the only REAL ONE, in this website( as stated in my profile- Just because you can not really put effort into it, when all goes down the drain in a couple of games, after you  re-gained them points...).

So, the game server would be an asset to the whole package, i'd guess ( JUST MY HONEST HUMBLE OPINION?!?!  No diss intended), cuz at the end of the day, I LOVE THIS WEBSITE, and its community, hard to compare out there !. That would definetly bring it closer to "perfection" as a "COMPLETE PACKAGE OF CHESS" (meaning it includes instruction and training "deals" included in memberships...No doubt a must for those  whom these features might be applicable: and thats a big percentage of the users out there, mind !

Specially youngsters in ongoing scholastic training, it seems to be quite atractive for them( layout, spirit of the community, kind and ways of instruction and training methods, software, etc, etc etc)

The power of football!