i love when ILX gets all chessed out (ILX hot chess action is here)

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when Bobby Fischer's plane touches the ground...
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050318/people_nm/iceland_fischer_dc

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

But I was several pieces up, and was going to get your rook as well as your queen in the exchange. So hells yeah I'm gonna do it! But you get major points for moving your rook to the second row back then, that totally fux0red up my plans.

Cozen: I looked back and you're right, although even at that piont I think your position had slipped a bit.

Morley! Get in on chessic axxion! Are you back from your trip?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

ambrose hanging on.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 March 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

yes indeedy, but awful at chess :(

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

(Ack, I still haven't sent you crap! Dammit. This weekend!)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

am i meant to concede? i guess i should, but i still hold on to the romantic notion that somehow i could win....

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

dude I think that notion has passed from the romantic into the sublime.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

you are about to enter into privileged realms of self-knowledge.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

apologies, I've been reading too much edmund burke.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

At a certain point, not conceding is telling your opponant, "There's still a chance that you're a total idiot!"

Anyway, someone else please challenge me!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link

oi, ambrose is cool.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't mean it like that!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I know I know!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link

You forget, I love everyone.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

why?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link

they're ok, RJG.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, I like to ~~hope~~ think so.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 01:59 (nineteen years ago) link

At a certain point, not conceding is telling your opponant, "There's still a chance that you're a total idiot!"

hah. i'm not doing that though, chris, i just want to see how the endgame goes. though i've been thinking of just resigning...i am so so beaten.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 19 March 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I dream, that they are.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 19 March 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I was surprised that you resigned! It's possible that you could have forced a stalemate, at least. I am not so good at endgames. But it was a good game! Rematch if you want.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually played two games of live chess tonight. While a bit tipsy. It was weird seeing actual pieces. I won one game and lost the other (at one of those slow endgames of attrition, where I was down two pawns, I got a bit bored and made a dumb mistake, but it was OK, I was going to lose anyways).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 19 March 2005 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I have had not much internet access, lately, but this will change on Monday, promise.

Czn, why are you reading Burke? I owe you an email, it will happen.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 19 March 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

for fun, grvl.

cathy, have you played go? Go!!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 March 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm in: SundarS (at the same email I use here).

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 19 March 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link

(I kinda suck, btw.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 20 March 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i think casuistry may end my winning streak soon!

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 20 March 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link

That was a very curious time to move that pawn forward, I think.

But I'm not sure, because I did not sleep last night.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 20 March 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i made a mistake a few moves before that that has done the damage i think

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 20 March 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Has anyone played Magnifico? He or she just kicked my ass in 13 moves.

Am enjoying the game with casuistry.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Mr. Puzzleworth has lived up to his name! My hopes and dreams were thoroughly extinguished, and I walk the dreary rainy streets with no song in my heart to console me!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Great game Chris, thanks! Beat Ken for me, and we'll have some crazy pyramid thing going on or something...

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, it's true abt the Cathy trash-talkin'!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been contemplating the parallels between chess and kickboxing (chessboxin'?).

Smart setup, Chris. Well, at least it'll take you more than 13 moves...

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 21 March 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

sundar, this game is odd for some reason, ive never seen a row of massed ranks like yrs

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

no one has beat me yet.

I lost to chris.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link

ambrose: Really? haha TS: I'm brilliantly inventive vs I have no clue what I'm doing.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 21 March 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I have an actual provisional rating now! I feel like I belong. Also it's in the 1300s, I should retire with this score, it can only go down.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen play me!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 March 2005 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link

After two defeats (a crushing defeat from ken included) I can now confirm that I am rubbish at chess.
Anybody else want a game?
username is treefell

― Greig (treefell), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

ken, I have only not lost (even though I lost to chris) because I play really slow.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

grr, i tried to challenge treefell but i can't because i have the maximum number of games going. one of them is against some non-ilxor who challenged me. it seemed like a really good game until i (amazingly) had the upper hand with a fork. i was all excited....and the other person stopped moving. i guess i have to wait a week now.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

well our game should finish soon julia :)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

When you're on a game screen, click "board options" and then "smiley" pieces!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

"Board style", I mean.

I predict I will defeat Ken in less than 50 more moves!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link

haha sorry dude i'm hanging on to try and stretch my undefeated record a bit longer (12-0 if i last two more games before i lose this one ;))

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

You might have me yet, actually!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I am so bad at endgames. Sigh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:09 (nineteen years ago) link

And, I guess, beginning and middle games. My playing is shot to hell today! I blame lack of coffee. I will go off and sob now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken is beating me in the rematch now :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

schoolboy error has cost me my queen against ambrose but there's still everything to play for

can't think fast enough for greg OR ken tho :(

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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