• SPORTS
    AND
    GAMING
  • Welcome Guest!
    Posting RulesBluelight Rules
  • Sports & Gaming Moderators: ghostfreak

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

Chess is a game that has engulfed a grave portion of my time. Once I get playing it's outstandingly addictive.


To me, alot of it has to do with spatial memory, of course, but I think the philosophy going into it is planning events eight, nine, ten moves ahead so that you're almost dictating the course of the future and it becomes a mind game responding to your opponent that by which has overlapped into the present, consistently manipulating and worming into the heart of the king whom I hold so dearly in contempt.
 
i play on yahoo quite frequently. but i suck... sort of.

anyone know of any good websites, or book, or anything like that where i can learn more about strategies?
 
ryanlaughlin said:
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?
Click to expand...

I play 1-5 min games.. bullet and blitz chess.Best player i ever played?Gata Kamsky.I never stood chance.:!
 
Care said:
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.
Click to expand...

Watch for proggers..Cheaters who use chess programs like Deep Fritz to show you the best move possible.
 
I mainly reside in two principles that have showed itself to me along my lines of practing:

1. One of us has already been mated. It sounds strange to think of chess as already being over when you are still in the middle of play, but I also feel like the development of pieces is actually moving backwards and thus I play in an almost Zen sort of style: letting the pieces unravel to their original positions, ... thinking forward, thinking backward, recognizing and pointing out all possibilities in the face of a solid position.

2. When attacking one square you stop defending another. It sounds simple, but I've often found conservative defensive play, with the slow lurking of material behind pawn islands to be the best way to slowly (very slowly) engulf and swallow position and space.

Pawn to G6 (black, that is ... I refuse to play white), bishop to G7, King side knight development and shortly a king side castle, I have found, brings in great unmatchable play.
 
I love Chess! I'm 27 and have been playing semi-serious since I was 16 (small tourneys and reading tons of new chess theory). I'm a very big fan of the Hypermodern school but I'll rock out with completely unsound gambits from time to time just to spice it up (although not in tourney's)

btw... has anyone on here heard of or played "Nightmare Chess"?


uber insane fun
 
i used to take speed and play chess ALOT..

i became quite skilled..

i also started gettin strange chess related psychosis symptoms :\
 
lol...speed+chess... i used to play chess and smoke pot from age 15 to 20. actually daily [online] chess playing and daily pot smoking started at the same time for me. they really go hand in hand, actually. as parents nowadays well know.

i then strayed into lsd and chess. finally, i finished with playing chess on dilaudid and had to draw the line there.
 
I play chess once in awhile. I didn't learn until I was mid-twenties and my husband taught me. I've never beaten him yet and I'd have to agree that it's a game where you constantly learn. I've tried playing online a few times but generally it sucks because unless you know your opponent it seems there are a LOT of people using 'cheat' programs just to get a quick win. It takes the fun out of it when after the first move you realize you're playing a machine/computer program.:\

ArmorRoark, I like many other forms of gaming too: video games, poker, spades, various computer games, word games, board games, etc. Honestly, it's been one of the best ways recently for me to bridge the gap between myself and my oldest son - sit down and play Lego Star Wars or Katamari with him for an hour and we talk about things he'd never tell me otherwise. I'm teaching him chess now too.:D
 
PinholeStar said:
Thick_as_a_Planck said:
1. d4
Click to expand...

1. ... d5
Click to expand...


i don't understand these. how's about we play a graphic game league?

chessv.jpg


simply keep an mspaint and image hosting site open. cut and paste each move.


sign up for the tourney here. we'll commence after we have enough players.
 
I'm interested in getting a game going with an actual bluelighter or a few. This is a good idea, I'm definitely in...
 
with chess it makes no difference whether it's 2d or 3d.


2 players so far (including me). come on!
 
chess is completely conceptual/in the mind for me, back in grade school we would play with ripped up paper and paper balls during class, its perfectly possible and a quick microcosm of the violence of galactic existence is replayed for the 100000000000000000000000000000th time
 
Impacto Profundo said:
with chess it makes no difference whether it's 2d or 3d.


2 players so far (including me). come on!
Click to expand...

It does when you only ever play on a real board.. I know the rules and everything are the same and therefore should not matter but when i play a 2d game i don't enjoy it as much.. i concentrate less.. i don't see moves i would normally see (due to bein used to lookin at a near enough completely different thing) and therefore don't enjoy playing it..

Come round mine (and bring a chess set).. then i'll play :p
 
^fine, be like that!

CD, does that mean you're in?


who else wants to hand my arse to me in a game?!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top