• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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      It’s spelled “pubes” and having a couple thousand really isn’t that impressive, though showing them off at the end of a date might still get you laid…

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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      I dunno, can’t see them in a bookshelf. He didn’t say anything about making reading cool, just books. “If they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”

      I don’t think digital versions count, at least not for John.

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          Playing chess against people who have read chess books is the worst… you make one move and they go “ah… the Toledo-Salamanca opening, I can checkmate in 34 moves.”

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            That opening is worth about a million bucks.

            I find it’s best to play ridiculous moves then that don’t show up in any books, you may end up in a strategically worse position but they have to work for their win now instead of just doing memorised plays. It’s better to burn out, than to fade away!

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            But that is my favorite way to play chess!

            I just haven’t actually read any books and an making up the names of moves. I hope my wife hasn’t caught on (she caught on the first time didn’t she)

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            I have yet to experience that even when playing against a fide master, but talking at the board is bad form. They do however know their way in the opening and it usually ends in disaster sooner or later

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        I guess they don’t for me, either, because when I read or listen to a book and really, really like it, I buy a physical copy.