@chess24com Im so fucking done with fide clothing nonsense, put a fucking carpet down, local lifting meets can manage a carpet that dampens 300kg enough that you can have a dance meet in the next room ffs
@AstroMikeMerri@Miss_Snuffy How about I argue that it's the connections not the education that you're paying for in a top private school and therefore both points are possible
@GMJacobAagaard@lichess does lichess pay licening fees?
im up for avoiding chesscom where possible. But more becuase they keep buying all the best chess websites then gutting them without replacing the fucntionality
@NoelStuder I was never below 1200 online having not relaly played before, dad taught me how peices move, but i havent broken 2000 otb yet 10 years later
@enigmaticrob@GMJacobAagaard Or it implies that the skill of chess isn't necessarily linked directly to intelligence. Inferences from stats can be hard.
I think most people who are saying "no" are assuming the average only includes people without a actaul medical mental disability like dementia.
@mikhail_golubev "There's no rule that says a dog can't play baseball"
And don't worry, I wasn't really calling you a feminist, if terf is a new term to you we don't have to get into intersectinality yet.
@Summit_Chess @ChessProblem Or he firmly believes the fide are, with good evidence, a problem and that problems should be faced. Who knows, funny man on internet go Brrrrrr. I'm more interested in the intentions of people using thier energy to defend fide
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