If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
Policy / Politique
The fee for tournament organizers advertising on ChessTalk is $20/event or $100/yearly unlimited for the year.
Les frais d'inscription des organisateurs de tournoi sur ChessTalk sont de 20 $/événement ou de 100 $/année illimitée.
You can etransfer to Henry Lam at chesstalkforum at gmail dot com
Transfér à Henry Lam à chesstalkforum@gmail.com
Dark Knight / Le Chevalier Noir
General Guidelines
---- Nous avons besoin d'un traduction français!
Some Basics
1. Under Board "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQs) there are 3 sections dealing with General Forum Usage, User Profile Features, and Reading and Posting Messages. These deal with everything from Avatars to Your Notifications. Most general technical questions are covered there. Here is a link to the FAQs. https://forum.chesstalk.com/help
2. Consider using the SEARCH button if you are looking for information. You may find your question has already been answered in a previous thread.
3. If you've looked for an answer to a question, and not found one, then you should consider asking your question in a new thread. For example, there have already been questions and discussion regarding: how to do chess diagrams (FENs); crosstables that line up properly; and the numerous little “glitches” that every new site will have.
4. Read pinned or sticky threads, like this one, if they look important. This applies especially to newcomers.
5. Read the thread you're posting in before you post. There are a variety of ways to look at a thread. These are covered under “Display Modes”.
6. Thread titles: please provide some details in your thread title. This is useful for a number of reasons. It helps ChessTalk members to quickly skim the threads. It prevents duplication of threads. And so on.
7. Unnecessary thread proliferation (e.g., deliberately creating a new thread that duplicates existing discussion) is discouraged. Look to see if a thread on your topic may have already been started and, if so, consider adding your contribution to the pre-existing thread. However, starting new threads to explore side-issues that are not relevant to the original subject is strongly encouraged. A single thread on the Canadian Open, with hundreds of posts on multiple sub-topics, is no better than a dozen threads on the Open covering only a few topics. Use your good judgment when starting a new thread.
8. If and/or when sub-forums are created, please make sure to create threads in the proper place.
Debate
9. Give an opinion and back it up with a reason. Throwaway comments such as "Game X pwnz because my friend and I think so!" could be considered pointless at best, and inflammatory at worst.
10. Try to give your own opinions, not simply those copied and pasted from reviews or opinions of your friends.
Unacceptable behavior and warnings
11. In registering here at ChessTalk please note that the same or similar rules apply here as applied at the previous Boardhost message board. In particular, the following content is not permitted to appear in any messages:
* Racism
* Hatred
* Harassment
* Adult content
* Obscene material
* Nudity or pornography
* Material that infringes intellectual property or other proprietary rights of any party
* Material the posting of which is tortious or violates a contractual or fiduciary obligation you or we owe to another party
* Piracy, hacking, viruses, worms, or warez
* Spam
* Any illegal content
* unapproved Commercial banner advertisements or revenue-generating links
* Any link to or any images from a site containing any material outlined in these restrictions
* Any material deemed offensive or inappropriate by the Board staff
12. Users are welcome to challenge other points of view and opinions, but should do so respectfully. Personal attacks on others will not be tolerated. Posts and threads with unacceptable content can be closed or deleted altogether. Furthermore, a range of sanctions are possible - from a simple warning to a temporary or even a permanent banning from ChessTalk.
Helping to Moderate
13. 'Report' links (an exclamation mark inside a triangle) can be found in many places throughout the board. These links allow users to alert the board staff to anything which is offensive, objectionable or illegal. Please consider using this feature if the need arises.
Advice for free
14. You should exercise the same caution with Private Messages as you would with any public posting.
To address Vlad as well, I wonder if your post on this is tongue in cheek? Some Trump supporters are Republicans, but many Republicans are not Trump supporters. Trump supporters are Trump supporters, and if Hillary had won we would have seen riots all across America on a mass scale like you have never seen before.
I also see Brad's true bias has come out... now he's calling the Democrats "evil people".
Well now. What you put in quotes I did not say. So you are falsely quoting me. (I did not even make such an allusion.)
This proves I was right when I called you an idiot. You are by far the biggest moron on this board. You are so illogical it is unbelievable. You jump to wild conclusions (that speak not to the person you refer to but only to yourself). And I have never come across such a judgmental person in my life.
You think you are some kind of smart person because of how well you read between the lines, but you have just demonstrated that you are not even capable of reading the lines in the first place!
Don't you think you should learn to read first, you imbecile?
To address Vlad as well, I wonder if your post on this is tongue in cheek? Some Trump supporters are Republicans, but many Republicans are not Trump supporters. Trump supporters are Trump supporters, and if Hillary had won we would have seen riots all across America on a mass scale like you have never seen before.
Criminals riot. The people who voted for Trump are not criminals. They voted for a law and order candidate who supported the police and our military. The demographics of Trump supporters does not support your assertion. They are mostly white middle class and black, hispanic, evangelical, catholic and NRA supports who support the same values which do not include rioting in the streets. I think the disgraceful displays by Hillary supporters could face a backlash by all people of decency.There has already been one rioter killed by a Trump supporter and judging by the video of the unprovoked Chicago attack by Hillary people there should have been three more that no one would have mourned.
It is not surprising that the people whose hate Hillary incited and even paid to provoke violence at Trump rallies are rioting. She had the thug vote locked up and now the thugs are doing what thugs do.
Last edited by Vlad Drkulec; Saturday, 12th November, 2016, 02:05 PM.
Well now. What you put in quotes I did not say. So you are falsely quoting me. (I did not even make such an allusion.)
This proves I was right when I called you an idiot. You are by far the biggest moron on this board. You are so illogical it is unbelievable. You jump to wild conclusions (that speak not to the person you refer to but only to yourself). And I have never come across such a judgmental person in my life.
You think you are some kind of smart person because of how well you read between the lines, but you have just demonstrated that you are not even capable of reading the lines in the first place!
Don't you think you should learn to read first, you imbecile?
Lets not descend to the level of Hillary supporters. Paul is tedious, and has a somewhat inflated notion of his own importance but he is not an imbecile at least not in the classic medical classification of the term which would imply an IQ of 25 to 50. An imbecile could not string together the long boring posts which Paul is renowned for. I would argue that he has at least an average IQ and perhaps somewhat higher though likely not as high as he himself believes.
You may be right Vlad, about Trump supporters not rioting that is.
But recall that Trump himself said in advance that if he loses it will be because of a fix! Further, has this not been an incredibly emotional election? What do emotions lead to? Do you honestly think that cooler heads would have prevailed? I do not. I believe that a sense of terrible anger and betrayal would have been felt by large masses of people and that some of them would have raised bloody hell in the only way they knew how.
Neither one of us can be sure though, about Trump supporters not rioting that is.
You may be right Vlad, about Trump supporters not rioting that is.
But recall that Trump himself said in advance that if he loses it will be because of a fix! Further, has this not been an incredibly emotional election? What do emotions lead to? Do you honestly think that cooler heads would have prevailed? I do not. I believe that a sense of terrible anger and betrayal would have been felt by large masses of people and that some of them would have raised bloody hell in the only way they knew how.
Neither one of us can be sure though, about Trump supporters not rioting that is.
I think Trump supporters would have been more surgical in their approach in the event that they had lost which seemed quite likely going into the last day. I gave Trump only a one in three chance of winning because I believed the media spin about the Democrats ground game. They cancelled their New York Times subscription. Why feed your enemies?
If Trump supporters were going to riot, it would have been when the paid Hillary supporters were assaulting them and disrupting their events or when the media tried to steal the election for Hillary.
The big lesson of this campaign is that the mainstream media and elites are no longer relevant because no one believes or trusts them anymore. Its a social media, wikileaks and google world and I think that their approach to this election accelerated their demise.
The big lesson of this campaign is that the mainstream media and elites are no longer relevant because no one believes or trusts them anymore. Its a social media, wikileaks and google world and I think that their approach to this election accelerated their demise.
The popular vote (last time I looked, they are probably still doing some recounts?)
Clinton - 60,467,245
Trump - 60,071,650
Trump won the electoral college, so he gets to be President.
But she won the popular vote. So it isn't surprising some Democrats feel cheated.
They should not feel any more cheated than a chess player feels cheated when he gets mated with two pieces up. The rules of the game in this case were about the electoral college, and Trump's team built a strategy around those rules. Had the election been on popular vote, I'm sure his team would have focused on closing the gap in several states that they gave basically no attention to - they clearly focussed on winning certain swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and so on, because that's how you win the election.
I am sure you did but repetition is the mother of skill and some people like Bonham think its business as usual so we have to train them to accept the new reality. Look for riots until Obama realizes that it makes him look bad and strengthens Trump. I expect Trump supporters to start exercising their 2nd amendment rights to protect themselves and I don't think anyone will cry about it when they do.
If he is a dunce then it would be best to reduce your exposure to him as it could be catching.
His world view has suffered an atomic bomb blast. Let him wallow with the rest of them as they try to reconcile their narrative to encompass the new reality that has been revealed. Expect the advantage of surprise to be gone. I expect that Trump will win a second term if he runs but I do expect the Democrats to be better prepared in eight years.
Tweet
Comment