i want to change the image of chess
you say "chess" and everyone thinks "nerd." at least in the states they do. that is bullshit and i want to change it somehow. chess is violent. chess is punk rock. chess is artistic. hell, you would think all the emo kids would like it, but most of them are just a bunch of whiny posers anyway.
i don't get people who loudly proclaim chess is for brainy nerds and they would never play it. that means they willingly admit that a bunch of dorks are smarter than they are. how cool is that? if they were so cool, they would play and kick the dork's asses and make them cry and prove thier superiority.
ok, right now, many chess players are a bit nerdy, true, but it doesn't have to be like that. i want to make chess a "Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and chess" kinda event.
chess doens't have to be stuffy and dull and boring, it's just that way because that is what people expect it to be and that is what people make it. some of the great grand masters, like tal, were drinking, womanizing kinda guys. why can't it be seen as cooler?
what would make chess a cooler activity? what would make young men and women more interested in it?
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