CHESS AND CHESS RELATED TOPICS

[thomasallencummins]

www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/chess.html

beta.uschess.org/frontend/section_7.php

www.chesscentral.com/chess_strategy/chess_strategy.htm

I play chess from time to time and have several chess sets but I'm a total hack compared to dynomite. He is a genuine student of the game; strategy, openings and gambits. I know how all the pieces move and generally how to make my hand push the bits around the board but my skills are somewhere in the gifted chimpanzee range. I enjoy playing enough that I always intend to play more than I do. I have a really good chess game for my computer that needs a workout.

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I can't remember when I learned to play chess. Probably around when I started school, its always been a staple in my family. Never been much of a student of it though...left that up to my brother. (Who is d**n good.) But I used to play a lot.

Faded a bit once I learned to play Go. Makes chess look like a game for pre-schoolers. But, that said, it's a lot easier to find people who play chess than Go. Here especially.

--A

[thomasallencummins]

Well I hadn't heard of GO before so I looked it up. It's interesting. So interesting in fact I created it's own thread. :-)

[dANdeLION]

I don't play computer chess (because they cheat, those bastards), but I'll gladly kick both of your butts in chess if you'd like.

[ram]

I like chess. My skill level must be somewhere below Atomic's: if he's in the gifted chimp range, I'm in the wasted chimp range. I stagger all over the board and just hope I survive beyond ten moves. I think my favorite piece is the knight/horse thing. Moves in an L-shape. I mean, how loony is that? Gotta love it!

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danomite said:

I don't play computer chess (because they cheat, those bastards), but I'll gladly kick both of your butts in chess if you'd like.

Haha, If you know somewhere we can play and leave the game standing, I don't mind getting my butt kicked. Doubt we can be online simultaenously for long enough for a full game in one sitting though.

--A