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I've gotten 2 very strong opinions expressed to me playing chess online. A French flag flying person thought I was Russian because I put the international flag. Part of signing up you pick a flag to represent you and when Trump was president I was too ashamed to brag that I was American. And as a Buddhist that's the most important thing about my identity, nation isn't that important. I do get goosebumps when there is a good national anthem at sporting events. I am proud of a lot of things about America, that we abolished slavery, that we gave the women the vote, and on and on. There are so many things that seem to so obvious to me, that we don't do like restrict guns somehow so the ongoing slaughter doesn't continue. 

Anyway, this French person thought I was Russian and quit the game in disgust. 

The second irate person didn't like that I used the fool's trap, attacking f7. He really was offended that I used that on him and scorned me, and then sent me a message that I need to learn a new opening, which to be honest, I really do need to learn a new opening. I just like playing and I'm not as into study. I've gotten really good at traps, and the beginning is so rote, but pretty soon you're in the wild west and experiencing things you never experienced before. I miss so many good moves, and make so many blunders. My rating hardly creeps up. I just thought those two vehement opinions were kind of off, and weird, but you know. I don't communicate, and some people talk smack, but I don't.

My one good friend who used to play, we haven't played in a really long time. I really like to play so I play about 10 games a day for fun. I'm not super obsessive, ironically, I've held off the chess obsession while falling into soccer and opera obsession.

I thought about starting a chess blog, because blogging is a great way to learn. I know teachers assign it to students all the time, and it seems like such an annoying assignment, but I love blogging and I guess for now I'm going to confine my chess blogging to this blog. I was hoping this blog would be the center for my blogs, but honestly I think narrow blogs are better. I'm going to start a chess blog.

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