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

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I've just signed up: pawnimo

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone challenge me too! I'm "starryschessclub"!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I am too ashamed of my poor chess skills to join in.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

cozen

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link

someone explain to me how this works...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

the horsey moves two along and one across, the dirty vicar moves diagonally, freddy mercury goes as far as and to whatever direction he damn well pleases, whereas elvis is so fat he can only move one square at a time. castles, on the other hand despite being inanimate objects, can move in straight lines, the pwns move forward and then get killed, hence the name

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i was really disappointed that there was no freddy mercury piece....

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 04:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm being pole-axed

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I am so fucking LAME at Scrabble! Ken has me IN A VICE!!

VICE I TELL YOU!!!

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, chess, I mean! I'm not used to playing a new game!

(Anyone fancy an ISC date at lunchtime? SOWPODS, 13 mins void?)

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

this is a really good interface. all it needs is a duel-style face-slap animation to pop up when you challenge someone.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:55 (nineteen years ago) link

God. I am blushing at my desk about how awful I am at chess. I might go to Chess and Bridge at lunchtime to pick up a beginners guide to NOT BEING BLUDDY AWFUL at chess. Aw maaan.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link

i am now making it worse, yaaaaaay

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link

oh my god i cant believe i entered this. i was drunk last night. i am appalling at chess!

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link

excellent

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:24 (nineteen years ago) link

*bangs head against desk*

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I want a rematch with ken!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i challenged you yesterday for it and you didn't reply.. i think i'm full at the moment (but the game with starry will be over soon i think ;))

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh sod off you geek!!

*flounces back to Scrabble*

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

can't they combine Scrabble and Chess somehow?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

triple check score!!

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I have played the Jamaican chess champion, and received a total pWning(he's a busker in the city streets of Melbourne) It rocks out, I desire a chess clock.

― Nellie (nellskies), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm on the ropes against both greg and ken now - thrilling stuff

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I am enjoying this.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get it, can't the castle take the queen here to avoid the resignation?

chess game analysis is abt as dorky as it gets (edit: well, there is go game analysis...)

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link

castle takes queen, horsey to F7 checkmate

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link

dude I'm not playing you.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm crap really! i just get lucky sometimes.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link

like with the bowling eh?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I've just played two games of Scrabble and pwn3d in both, time to come back to the final death throes of my not quite so stellar chess career...

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

like with the bowling eh?

i'm like that with most things really as a matter of fact!! :D

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

signed on as kephm. will be looking for some game manana

― kephm, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

signed on as kephm. my game is so poor right now

― kephm, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The delay between turns really lets you savour just how bad a mistake you've made with your last move. Oh yes.

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 17 March 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, a slow agonising death at the hands of tiefschwarz is certainly being 'savoured'

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Casuitry's massive positional advantage is now countered by my crushing one-pawn lead! I'm really enjoying all these games.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link

it's good fun.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

give you something else to check, along with e-mails.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 17 March 2005 13:09 (nineteen years ago) link

omg i took a piece! ight, thats it for the rest of the year, i filled my quota.

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 March 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

haha cozen nice one mate!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH up your arse blueski.

Rematch?

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 17 March 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

yes but you could've prolonged that last game a bit longer, for da sport

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

(like i am now doing against Ken)

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

not for THAT long.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

:-D

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I just joined as cathyleech

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I won a medal once, for chess.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there any chance of a similar outbreak of ILX Scrabble matches? www.isc.ro

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

im up for that
i dont know whether im worse at scrabble, or chess.

a tough on that.
my username is "ambrose", funny that

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link

no its not. its "ambroseW"

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

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bout an hour of chess a day, the cool thing about playing bullet is if you work on the computer you can just take a lil break and play a couple games no prob

― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 16:26 (three months ago) link

prob not gonna play yr best under those circumstances but hey who cares you know, i def play best with a longer block of time and at night for some reason

― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 December 2023 16:29 (three months ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/dOVoBUh.png

Endless endgame

― calstars, Saturday, 13 January 2024 20:06 (three months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05ouOyAPIQs

"when I watch this game I imagine Rashid Nezhmetdinov watching the game and saying "nice"".

Love this one

― H.P, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 04:13 (three months ago) link

nice

― lag∞n, Tuesday, 16 January 2024 16:44 (three months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Bb_TyhC1A

some light viewing here

― imago, Monday, 29 January 2024 21:11 (two months ago) link

Just reached 1400 blitz and am feeling ready to take on magnum, ding, and the ghost of bobby Fischer all at once, blindfolded.

Literally unstoppable right now, don't even talk to me 😤

― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:15 (two months ago) link

Was sitting high 1300's went 2-13 to get myself down to a nice 1200's figure again, then the next day pull a 14-15 streak to get a new top rating. My brain literally just chooses each day whether it can play chess or not. Streaky as hell

― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:19 (two months ago) link

nice re the pb, feel like spend most of yr time in about 100pt range is pretty normal with occasional visits to above or below, and of course the midpoint is subject to change too

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:42 (two months ago) link

tho the other day i looked at this guys graph cause he was higher rated than me but id beat him seven out of seven, and his swings were all over the place veering wildly two three hundred points, maybe he drinks idk

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:43 (two months ago) link

I get caught chasing the rabbit after a loss. The next game is all about making up for the previous one, so I'm not completely focussed. It then snowballs until I finally give up and give my brain a refresh. Thankfully I am not a gambler, I would have all my money sucked dry in a day

― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:53 (two months ago) link

I think 200-300 swings maybe more common the lower the rating, definitely rarer when swinging that much within a the 4-digit rating range

― H.P, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:54 (two months ago) link

the big swing guy was at like 1750 iirc

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 01:17 (two months ago) link

four weeks pass...

sometimes people resign when you do a cool move on them even if its not that big of an advantage theyre just like oh no i gotta get outta here

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:37 (one month ago) link

yes hello

― gbx, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 15:06 (one month ago) link

Gotta love a bluff win

― H.P, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 22:34 (one month ago) link

thats why one should keep playing, also its good practice

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 23:45 (one month ago) link

I think I've practiced losing enough

― H.P, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:03 (one month ago) link

(But yes obviously you fight to the bitter end)

― H.P, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:03 (one month ago) link

or at least until the position simplifies

― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:09 (one month ago) link

a big comeback is fun too

― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 March 2024 00:10 (one month ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://i.imgur.com/kbXShZ0.jpeg

― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:47 (three weeks ago) link

Liam Gallagher commentary after move 67: “this game is gonna live forevah…”

― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:49 (three weeks ago) link

Lost

― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2024 23:37 (three weeks ago) link

the fools havent moved

https://i.imgur.com/q22iAt7.png

― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 March 2024 23:16 (three weeks ago) link

two weeks pass...

Thinking about bringing a board to the bar and setting it up on a table outside … who wants to send me some crypto backing $$$

― calstars, Monday, 15 April 2024 21:26 (three days ago) link

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