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GEG presents: The Chess Thread (ongoing win/lose record inside)

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its something i wonder sometimes.

chess is super awesome. there are some things that take time to learn about it, but in reality, its a game that once you learn the basics of, you're ALWAYS learning the complexities to it. its definitely a game worth learning if you dont understand it. its fun, plus it really works your brain in ways that a lot of you (myself included) dont work unless you're engulfed in a game of chess!

anyone here play chess?
 
A little. I'm not very good, really. My game is Scrabble.

Though, one time, I was playing this guy who was excellent (he played in tournaments) and I beat him. In two moves.

He was so focused on higher strategy that he made a really elementary mistake.
 
i understand the basix but have no strategy skills.

how's about an BL online chess tourney? yahoo hosts live chess games
 
I forgot about yahoo..not sure if i can log into it on a mac. I dont mind playing people, but playing the computer sucks.
 
^true that

unless you're playing battle chess and enjoy the thrill of animated violence! :D
 
i love playing. none of my friends want games anymore, so i haven't had a game outside of the cheesy simulator on my cell phone in a couple years.
 
I love chess but none of my friends like to play, i try to teach them but they get frustrated that they aren't "winning" halfway through the game and decide that they don't want to play anymore.
 
Would like to get back into it. Love it a lot when I was younger.

I think the reason I was never that good was I was trying to think too far ahead and not paying attention to the moves that were actually happening :)
 
don't play much these days but yea it's proper enjoyable to have a bit of wine and have a night spent on the board.
 
hoptis said:
Would like to get back into it. Love it a lot when I was younger.

I think the reason I was never that good was I was trying to think too far ahead and not paying attention to the moves that were actually happening :)
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It takes a certain kind of intelligence.

There's some Poe story where he makes a case for superiority at checkers (he calls it "draughts") as more of a test of intelligence than chess.
 
it does but dont think that thinking to far ahead is gonna be your demise!!

look at that one kid...bobby fisher i belive...that kid knew the entiree match before u moved your rook! he could think of i think they said the next ten moves for both of u
 
fasteddie said:
It takes a certain kind of intelligence.

There's some Poe story where he makes a case for superiority at checkers (he calls it "draughts") as more of a test of intelligence than chess.
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thats funny.

but it is called draughts.
 
It's from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen.

And, y'all thought I was long winded.

He also lets off a long spiel about how to win at cards, ironic, since Poe was a notoriously unlucky gambler. Possibly, all that laudanum, brandy, and absinthe might have thrown off his game, a tad.=D
 
I love chess. I used to play all the time, but it's been a while.

A yahoo chess tournament might be fun.
 
I played alot as a kid. Then I started playing video games, and they took over play time.
 
fasteddie said:
It's from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. It follows that the game of chess, in its effects upon mental character, is greatly misunderstood. I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random; I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess. In this latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. The attention is here called powerfully into play. If it flag for an instant, an oversight is committed resulting in injury or defeat. The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. In draughts, on the contrary, where the moves are unique and have but little variation, the probabilities of inadvertence are diminished, and the mere attention being left comparatively unemployed, what advantages are obtained by either party are obtained by superior acumen.

And, y'all thought I was long winded.

He also lets off a long spiel about how to win at cards, ironic, since Poe was a notoriously unlucky gambler. Possibly, all that laudanum, brandy, and absinthe might have thrown off his game, a tad.=D
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LOL so basically he doesnt like chess because its too confusing, and assumes that, as its harder to make mistakes in draughts, it must be more intellectually challenging?
he was probably religious too, with that kind of logic... .:\
 
I'd be up for an online game.

Looking over the Wikipedia entry I found some interesting variants that might be fun to play, some of them can be played online.
 
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