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DreamscapeHorizons
shadowtanuki wrote:

Whichever chess organization is the most committed to reducing its carbon footprint and delivering equitable outcomes to all participants is the one I would support.

Equitable outcomes?? So just GIVE everybody the same # of points. Mmmkay, got it.

DreamscapeHorizons

shadowtanuki
DreamscapeHorizons wrote:
shadowtanuki wrote:

Whichever chess organization is the most committed to reducing its carbon footprint and delivering equitable outcomes to all participants is the one I would support.

Equitable outcomes?? So just GIVE everybody the same # of points. Mmmkay, got it.

That's right. They can take some points away from the people who are winning unconscionable amounts of them and use them to provide a respectable rating to those who are struggling just to get by.

DreamscapeHorizons

Aaahahaha, I know ur kidding. Good one. I wasn't sure at the start.

OnyxOrca
DreamscapeHorizons wrote:
shadowtanuki wrote:

Whichever chess organization is the most committed to reducing its carbon footprint and delivering equitable outcomes to all participants is the one I would support.

Equitable outcomes?? So just GIVE everybody the same # of points. Mmmkay, got it.

You're cartoonishly dumb

shadowtanuki
OnyxOrca wrote:
DreamscapeHorizons wrote:
shadowtanuki wrote:

Whichever chess organization is the most committed to reducing its carbon footprint and delivering equitable outcomes to all participants is the one I would support.

Equitable outcomes?? So just GIVE everybody the same # of points. Mmmkay, got it.

You're cartoonishly dumb

I feel like you're putting us both down with that comment

OnyxOrca
shadowtanuki wrote:
DreamscapeHorizons wrote:
shadowtanuki wrote:

Whichever chess organization is the most committed to reducing its carbon footprint and delivering equitable outcomes to all participants is the one I would support.

Equitable outcomes?? So just GIVE everybody the same # of points. Mmmkay, got it.

That's right. They can take some points away from the people who are winning unconscionable amounts of them and use them to provide a respectable rating to those who are struggling just to get by.

you are too. How do I have the misfortune of seeing an anti-wokeist and an idealist in one forum?

OnyxOrca
shadowtanuki wrote:
OnyxOrca wrote:
DreamscapeHorizons wrote:
shadowtanuki wrote:

Whichever chess organization is the most committed to reducing its carbon footprint and delivering equitable outcomes to all participants is the one I would support.

Equitable outcomes?? So just GIVE everybody the same # of points. Mmmkay, got it.

You're cartoonishly dumb

I feel like you're putting us both down with that comment

good catch

shadowtanuki

Well, I think there should be a universal basic rating, and a limit on how many points you can earn beyond that. Who really needs to have a rating over 1800? It's just greed that would motivate somebody to hoard rating beyond that point.

OnyxOrca

I hope you're joking, but I'm just gonna unfollow this forum before you say something even more dumb than that.

Focus that energy on actual politics, cus you might be a half-decent leftist if you swapped rating for income

shadowtanuki

I actually thought about making a thread questioning whether chess was a force for good in the world. It seems like it only exists still today, in its commercial aspect, to further the economic interests of a class of people who already have sufficient leisure to devote their lives to mastering a game.

Black-Dog2

I can't say FIDE is well run, simply because I don't know. However it appears to me that this new organisation is more about money and power than improving on the FIDE model. As such it appears to be a vanity project and whatever FIDE's flaws that the new organisation is no great shakes as a replacement.

DreamscapeHorizons

I'd love to participate in otb freestyle events. It would be good to have a separate rating system of course. I'm sure somebody must've compiled all the known results of FR/960/freestyle events over the years and made a rating/ranking system from the results. I haven't seen it though.

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