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

Don't forget Scrabble, now made popular again by Facebook's Scrabulous... this game is dominated by female players, in the same way Sudoku generally is. In fact most of the guys I see playing Scrabulous are loser creeps after dirty chat lol.
 
We should start a Bluelight chess league. Although when I am inevitably beaten by a girl I may have to kill myself in ritualistic Japanese fashion.
 
I played almost every day at high school. My Dad taught me how to play from a very, very young age on a beautiful semi-precious stone board he bought back from Japan many years ago.
It's not the same playing on my crappy set but I still love it.
 
Yeah I did chess-club in primary school, so I know how to play. And my dad loves chess so he taught me too.
I don't really enjoy it though, not enough patience. There are so many other things I could be doing with that time!
I adore sudoku though.
 
My sister plays chess. She is actually pretty good. She is the smart one in the family.

I chose drugs and she chose school. Go figure :|
 
not alot. I'd say about 80% of the people I play poker with are men as well.
 
i've been playing chess since 5th grade. when i was a teenager, i played a lot, mostly online, and i was pretty good for my age. last time i played was in rehab a year ago... i'm not that great as i don't play much anymore, but it feels good to surprise people with a decent game considering girls aren't usually expected to be any good at chess.
 
I play chess on chess.com pretty frequently. The best player (who is a WGM) is a female from Georgia (the country) and has only lost one online game ever.

So to answer your question, one and she is the best player i've ever come across.

As far as real life is concerned i've never met a girl who got any further than learning how the pieces moved.
 
My girlfriend beats everyone's ass in chess but she's pretty modest about it, at least compared to all the mediocre male players I know who dicksize every time the game comes up in conversation.
 
I do. My dad taught me when I was little. When my BF is done training for his fight, I challenged him to drunken chess match :D

Chess is fun, but strip chess is better.
 
i think girls just dont like games as much in general, and since chess requires so much time and effort to be any kind of good at they just dont bother.
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Wrong. Girls "don't like games as much" because of the social expectations they live up to and the fact that most games these days are made by men for men. This is an extremely sexist comment.

My girlfriend is better than me at Chess and I'm pretty good. However, I destroy her at video games. She was never into video games much until Team Fortress 2 came out and now she begs me to play all day and were going to have to buy another computer so we stop fighting over game time.

She says there is two things that really got her into Team Fortress 2. The first is that it isn't trying to pretend like you're some elite soldier guy in the middle of Iraq like every other FPS game tries to do lately. The second is the Pyro class in TF2 allowed her to just get used to moving around in a 3D environment while not having to worry about aiming at all. Then once she got good at just moving around I convinced her to play soldier and then she got good at aiming too.

I taught her a lot of things about TF2 that only extreme ownage gamers like myself know ;) Now she is much better than most people and I can't wait to start playing with her so I don't have to hate all my stupid teammates. I'll have my own little trained helper.

Oh and another example of a game I see a LOT of girls playing is Guitar Hero/Rock Band and also MMO games like WoW.

Girls will become more and more into games as companies start to figure out what they want to play. Guys seem to always want combat simulation games and that just doesn't seem to appeal to most women.
 
Lysis said:
I do. My dad taught me when I was little.
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Yeah same here. I used to be pretty good at it too. I never could beat my grandfather though... he always knew what move I was going to make, 10 moves before I made it.
 
My dad taught me how to play and even bought me a book explaining the history and idea behind chess, and even the ole checkmate in 4 moves "blitzkrieg".


When I played with my dad all the time I guess I felt as if I was doing ok, never beat him but did get a draw one time :) After my parents got divorced i stayed with my mom, dad moved to a different state, sometimes I'd play with the occasional friend that knew how and usually beat them with variations of the "blitzkrieg" strategy.

I only had one friend I played with regularly and once he got wise to my ways and the games started getting longer I found I just didn't have the patience to be a good player anymore. he'd happily sit and study the board for a minute or more while I sit impatiently waiting and then make my move within a few seconds of my turn starting with no real strategy beyond maybe 1 or two turns later.
 
Sure! Make a chess.com account and challenge me to a game. User name is Infidelity
 
four threads merged to become one definitive chess thread.

i had my first game of chess in about a decade (or two) on the weekend, against the xbox 360 on the demo i dloaded. i enjoyed it more than i expected.
 
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