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Too many exceptions, Mr. Puzzleworth!

(7x7 with 2 stones is impressive!)

I guess so. I tend to lose by 10 points or so with no handicap stones, though. And it won't let me take just 1 handicap stone.

I have already resigned in my Ken rematch. Dude fucking blitzkreiged me.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i know, it's a kinda crazy game, stevem. i'm enjoying it though.

i just got checkmated by chris p! i totally overlooked an obvious mistake, and was way way too fixated on this one checkmate possibility i would have had if i could have only gotten him to move his one rook.

i suck at chess. but it's fun.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Ooo, Ken might have let me back into our game, sortamaybe!

One handicap stone doesn't really have any meaning - it'd actually be a disadvantage, moving first but having no choice where to put the stone? Small advantages are generally done with point bonuses (or lack of the normal one).

You are maybe right, about exceptions. I should revise.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Julia's rather severe checkmate threat hung over my head for much of that game. Everything I did was in terms of "well, can I still get out of her checkmate plan?" It was pretty great/annoying!

I beat the 7x7 with no handicap stones, at last. The game, on the small scale, is starting to fill me with less dread.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

and they say the interweb is full of geeks ;)

i would join in but:

a. i are SHOCKING at chess
b. i worry about the drain on my time
c. accessing redhotpawn at work...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

(I finally realized what you meant about the 1-stone thing, GP. D'oh.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

resistance is futile, greg!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'LL NEVER SURRENDER

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Am I blind? Why would GP give up? Get him! Get him!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

And by "get him" I mean "draw".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken has beaten me at the death. He is a TOYIN' CAT. I have nothing, nothing.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, wait, now I see. See, I told you I'm bad at endgames.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link

everyone's ignoring captainzep who is basically going to win

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link

All you need to do is survive 50 moves!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link

My only tactic is attrition

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Everyone is always winning until Ken's ENDGAME OF STEEL, though!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link

what is this 50 moves thing????

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link

He is the Comeback Kid! But with knives!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken: 50 moves with no capture (and no pawn move) = automatic draw. Unless I'm misremembering.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm so going to the library right now and taking out more chess books.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link

ooh i see! actually yeah i wonder if i can manufacture a perpetual check or stalemate situation..........

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link

i think when i finally lose this game i'm going to retire from chess... it's very tiring!!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Right - I'm crashing and leaving the game on a knife edge...

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I am taking the ken agony as a sign and deleting my bookmark. I want a degree.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

All this online chess has got me playing the chess game you get with osx. Only to find it beats me even easier than everyone on redhotpawn (except ken).
I just hope the experience makes me a better player.

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I am RJG

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link

nice to meet you RJG

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link

do you mean "beat"?

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I am a loser : (

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

The only losers are the ones who don't play!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i've lost five games! i'm on a roll!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

That's because you pick only the best challengers.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

that's a lie, i'm not that good! only ken and greg have beaten me so far tho. chris i now challenge thee...

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I am taking it slow.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I am all chessed out.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

All this online chess has got me playing the chess game you get with osx. Only to find it beats me even easier than everyone on redhotpawn (except ken).

But isn't the programme designed to play like a master? I mean, it beats me easier than anyone on redhotpawn, Yahoo Chess, and offline too. Not to mention that playing in real time makes things more challenging. The programme plays with my head - I think I've made a safe capture of a major rank but actually I've played a part in creating a setup that materializes 5 moves later and which ends up cutting me off from even moving.

What's a good book on strategy that's easy to follow? I took out Evans' Chess Questions Answered, which is useful, but I find its layout to not be totally user-friendly.

Tomorrow night I aim to see if chess lessons can be transferred to the kickboxing ring.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm, I fear over-dogmatic application of 'rules' from Evans may have cost me against blueski.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Sundar does not so much have me by the balls, but rather has a pair of tweezers with which he keeps plucking ball hairs, with no warning, one by one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm scared of you guys who are actually STUDYING this now!!

haha and just to immortalise it (before captainzep kills the streak)
http://www.lolrider.com/pwn/pawn3d.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 24 March 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

WOW. You're a hero!

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Miccio's in! I didn't realize this. We'll have to face off when I'm done one of these games.

I dunno, Chris, I don't really feel like I've got anything solid at this point.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Meanwhile, Bobby Fischer verbally shits all over the U.S. as he gets off his jet in Iceland

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 25 March 2005 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link

He's not looking so well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link

0 for 3!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

chris: I have no idea what is going on.
julia: is beating me.
ambrose: I will avenge my queen.
tiefschwarz: is wiley.
cathy: I have no idea what's going on.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I also have no idea what is going on.

I grow tired of Sundar having a life. I am way too interested in the outcome of this game!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

julia put the smack down on me!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:58 (nineteen years ago) link

well played, too good.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

yay, thanks!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

You are all taking far too long! I am stuck in Rugby, and all I have for entertainment is chess and Michael Caine's "Not Many People Know That" Almanac of Amazing Information. Did you know that Napolean had a pathological fear of cats?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

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