Chess - classic or dud?

(not work-safe)

I've started playing a Facebook version of chess with a friend lately, and I'm getting better. (Where better = very slightly above totally clueless.) I know some ilx people used to play on RedHotPawn.com, and I much prefer that interface to the Facebook one. For instance, on Facebook, there's no submit button -- all moves are final. And some other stuff that makes it more difficult for a beginner.

Anyway, who still plays? Dan Perry is schooling me pretty good right now (I had him a pickle a few moves ago, then I blew it big-time).

What version is it? Hit me up on it if you'd like.

I am pretty bad at chess if only bcz I cannot concentrate lately. I was pretty good when I played it a lot but not HS chess club levels. My boyfriend is so paranoid that if he leaves the room I will mess up the pieces that I have to take a digital camera photo while he's there to compare. It's the one 'trust issue' he has.

I am very bad at chess - I like to be aggressive, 'trade pieces' etc. and it never works out well.

Do not really understand the whole 'openings' thing about chess - doesn't that mean certain moves are basically scripted and both sides should know how to counter? Is black always on the defensive in that case?

The version Bobby Fischer made up where the back pieces are semi-randomized seems interesting.

yeah, so does naziism

i havent played in years but yeah openings are 'scripted' to a longer & longer length the higher you go; typically yes black is going to be on the defensive but can counter white in ways that make him unfamiliar; immediate & simple ex being the sicilian defense (instead of e4-e5, e4-c5). some opening variations run into the teens & twenties amongst the really really schooled guys.

Yeah the dude I've been playing is better at thinking about chess than I am, just more experienced, but I've been studying the common openings and defenses and he hasn't, and he didn't even realize that's what I was doing. He'd be like, "Wow... you're defense in very enviable right now." Yes, well. Of course my middle game is a mess.

Should read "Your defense is very enviable" etc. Oh, typing.

Kenan pwns this app.

Best first two books about chess (in this order)

1. http://www.amazon.com/Right-Way-Play-Chess/dp/1585740462

2. http://www.logicalchess.com/resources/lc/

http://i.somethingawful.com/inserts/news/images/diamondchess.jpg

Kenan pwns this app.

Oh, I do not, either. You just have it out for your own king. Which is very egalitarian of you, and I applaud your ideals.

I promise to be a benevolent ruler to your people. Here's proof: last game I captured your king while killing only a single pawn of yours. Your officers, your queen... they will all be treated well. Here, have some mead.

my favorite chess-endgame problems no longer work online. they were interactive, which i loved. so i'm back to the sort that you have to stare at.

i'm julesb74 on redhotpawn if anyone's playing on there. after playing some facebook chess, i like redhotpawn sooooo much better.

Bobby Fischer dead (not going to say RIP due to his anti-semitic ranting- is that mean?):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7195840.stm

Sorry, ignore this, just seen RIP thread!

I started playing again using the Chess.com app on Facebook. Someone should play me:

http://apps.facebook.com/chessfb/?page=create_game&challenge_to_id=1273496841

If anyone with an old animus against me wants to play: I have been playing suck-ass chess lately. I'm very rusty. So hit me up!

Did I ever mention I was the New South Wales under 16 champion in 1986? But now I'm very rusty, any patzer could beat me.

I have never really played chess and now my gf's brother is challenging me via facebook. I don't even know the rules or basic tactical ideas. He's super competitive at board games (he nearly fucking wet himself when he won at the last minute at Settlers the other week with a timely development card reveal); how do I not get my ass kicked?

Post moves here and the ILx collective will help you destroy him.

Yes, we could have a poll on each move.

It will be like Gary Kasparov vs. Big Blue that giant flying cock.

^^^ (xp)

btw loled at this, is this the primitive version of "i'm white btw"?

One of my better games of chess (I'm black):

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:51 AM (5 years ago)

ilxhivemind would try some awesome attacking shit then fuck up at the end get mated by three pawns.

been pushin pawns iirc

I'm not that good at it. I just can't think well in the spatial terms that sem to be required for the game. But chess is obviously classic. I'm just dud at it.

^^ otm. i have a really nice wood and brass set - was a birthday gift - that is packed away somewhere ar the parents' place.

www.redhotpawn.com challenge kenjuggle thx

signed up and challenged you. had never heard of the site before. chess is fun, but i hate losing* and i am so average.

*interestingly enough i am a good sport in every game, but with chess. i don't know, it's an insult to my intelligence or something.

ah i finally realized it's correspondence chess. not that i have any problem with that, though i really achieve best results against fast players in fast games.

i try to play as quickly as i can as much as my work day can allow

i've already adjusted to correspondence chess rhytm heh :)

should not make chess moves while drunk haha

No more Alcoholic Chess, then.

I play it a bit on Facebook, but I am frustrated by my tendency to make stupid mistakes.

Norweigan prodigy Magnus Carlsen is new chess champion

.. the misspelling is courtesy of the BBC headline (*mutter* falling standards... not like in my day... hell in a handcart...)

http://i.imgur.com/1of1eKB.jpg

anyone want a game? chessworld.net

Not ready yet, sorry. Just playing Shredder these days.

Classic because

http://youjivinmeturkey.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/knight-moves-1992.jpg

fyi I don't like the cut of that Carlsen kid's jib

anyone have any good videos/tutorials for white lines after a fried liver attack? i can consistently execute the attack but then the king will go e6 and i'll get flustered and make mistakes (esp bringing my queen in to try and capitalize on the knight sac). if king goes e8 or g8 (latter consistently a quick checkmate) not so much trouble but how do u take advantage of the e6 move protecting the knights?

The Chess.com app has some good training exercises around this.

this account is excellent for gambit traps, dirty tricks in gambits etc: http://www.youtube.com/user/gunj17

there's probably a few instructive MatoJelic videos too