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1 posted on 09/21/2007 1:12:09 PM PDT by Marc Tumin
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Isn’t chess kind of a ridiculous thing to be spending 7 hours a day on? It’s a freaking board game.


3 posted on 09/21/2007 1:22:42 PM PDT by Nonstatist
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Guess I’m gonna be first to notice that if men had said the same things as the women chess players then all hell would break loose :)


5 posted on 09/21/2007 2:14:49 PM PDT by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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7 posted on 09/21/2007 2:24:40 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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9 posted on 09/21/2007 2:28:51 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Marc Tumin
It's obvious: the rules are discriminatory and need to be changed. There should also be an expressive/discursive component built into tournament scoring.

When Hillary is President, things like this will get fixed.

11 posted on 09/21/2007 4:18:08 PM PDT by sphinx
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CHESS!!!!!


14 posted on 09/21/2007 4:51:45 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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