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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Chess, hockey and fighting
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.131842.714@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 13:18:42 EST
- References: <18986@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services
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- In article <18986@mindlink.bc.ca>, Bruce_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Harper) writes:
- > Although fighting in hockey disgraces the sport and adds nothing to the game,
- > I don't think many of us turn off the game when a fight breaks out (they sure
- > don't turn off the camera...)
- >
- > I think the current fight on usenet.rec.games.chess is comparable. Few chess
- > players want to get involved, but it's hard not to tune in to see what's
- > going to happen next!
- >
- > Mark - are you getting all this down?
- >
- > [As a courtesy, though, it would be easier for the spectators not to include
- > the postings to which a response is being made, and just post the latest
- > flame. I only want to see the new stuff.]
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- The trouble with that is people like Sven then turn around two posts later and
- claim "I never said that!"
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- Sorry, you have to sit through the replays before you get to see the latest
- rounds.
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