Does anyone here play Chess? I'm into the traditional chess game and Glinski's hexagonal chess. Hard to find hexagonal chess boards though. If you do play chess, do you play online or do you own or plan to purchase a board with pieces? Here is the new set I received from my fianc?e for Christmas. Handmade, nicely crafted for the price too. The colors are great IMO. I love the maroon red and light tan wood coloration combo. Also, if you play Go (Goe) this is a good place to discuss that as well. I've always wanted to play Jos? Ra?l Capablanca's chess, but I have absolutely no luck in finding a board or those extra pieces you need to play it, like a Chancellor or the Archbishop. Chess is considered by some to be a game, but in fact it is actually presented as a sport. Think of it like darts or pool in a catagory.
Yup, it's my favorite board game. Back in the 5th grade I used to be nice. My team and I actually won first place in the city many years ago. I don't play much now -- just occassionally. I would be down if anyone here wanted to play me.
Sure, I'll play you when I get back to the States. I'll be busy all next week, but afterward I should be good for a few matches.
I used to play quite often in highschool. Our tennis coach made it part of practice because he felt it would improve our strategy on the courts. Chess is great if you have the time for it. Being able to see things develop 10 plays ahead is a skill you can carry over to any part of your life.
Used to play as a kid, but always lost to my dad and brother so it was kind of pointless. I'm not really very good and don't get into the games like most do. I guess I'm more of an "active sports" kinda guy: basketball and soccer are the only sports that I really get into.
<div class="quote_poster">Carter Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Lol, I don't even know how to play.</div> The basics are simple to learn. If anyone is interested I can teach you.
<div class="quote_poster">M Two One Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">The basics are simple to learn. If anyone is interested I can teach you.</div> No thanks. I'm not really intrested in games like chess or checkers.
I have a chess table at home and what not, but no one in my family plays. Do you know any good online chess sites I can go to?
<div class="quote_poster">Carter Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">No thanks. I'm not really intrested in games like chess or checkers. </div> Best way to build logic; if you change your mind give me a PM. <div class="quote_poster">Epidemik Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I have a chess table at home and what not, but no one in my family plays. Do you know any good online chess sites I can go to?</div> I like Yahoo chess. Free and there are plenty of people to play against. I'm not much of an online player though, I prefer matches played in person.
yea i used to be really good (havent played in a while) my school in 8th grade (led by me and my 2 friends) came in 4th place in the state championships for grammer-middle schoold
I played a lot as a kid with my parents. But I wasn't very good, because I would always think I had a crazy move coming up but I'd end up exposing myself in the process. When I coached a soccer team I actually played pretty regularly. It helps you focus on positioning and I like to think it helped me coach defense better.
xoooooooox oxoxooxoxo obxoxxoxbo I think that is what I usually ended up doing, where x = pawn, o = empty spaces, and b = bishops. My offense would be just roaming knights, and advancing pawns. I wasn't very good lol. I would always forget to position a few pieces in spots where they would do anything, usually my rooks would be trapped behind pawns. I played against a decent player once and he just recorded the moves and didn't look at the board once, I lost, pretty badly. I could never plan more than like 3 moves in advance. I no longer have much interest in chess, except an occasional match in person if they really want to play.
<div class="quote_poster">Omarion Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">xoooooooox oxoxooxoxo obxoxxoxbo I think that is what I usually ended up doing, where x = pawn, o = empty spaces, and b = bishops. My offense would be just roaming knights, and advancing pawns. I wasn't very good lol. I would always forget to position a few pieces in spots where they would do anything, usually my rooks would be trapped behind pawns. I played against a decent player once and he just recorded the moves and didn't look at the board once, I lost, pretty badly. I could never plan more than like 3 moves in advance. I no longer have much interest in chess, except an occasional match in person if they really want to play.</div> Remember when you play that each peice has a specific point value. Pawns are worth one point. Bishops are worth three points close to end game or at least when the board is more open, while only worth two in the beginning of the match. Knights are worth three points as well, but only during tight battles at the beginning, while worth only two near end game. Greatly the opposite of Bishops. Bishops can be the most dangerous pieces toward end game if you have both of them. Rooks are worth five points throughout the entire match. Your Queen is worth nine points through the entire match. The King however has no specific value because if you lose him, naturally the match is over. The invaluable piece of your arsenal. You should also start to position the King towards the middle of the board during end game because he can be used to close out other pieces and trap them. Starting a match castling on the King side is also an important defensive move. If you don't know what that is try it next time. How it is done is when you've moved the Knight and Bishop of the King's side up so that you have a clear view from King to Rook. However, you cannot do this automatically if you've moved the specific Rook or the King. Anyway, you take hold of the King and move him over two spaces and place the Rook over him, right beside. Kind of like a box move. Try to get the Bishop on that side to be positioned right in front of the Rook with nothing blocking the diagonal path because then you then will have open space of the board. The widest view for a bishop to attack. If you castle the opposite side (Queen side) and your opponent castles King side you can expect a fierce battle. Same vice versa. I personally like to open up with a Queen attack. I have good strategy that often works where I can take out the opponent's one Rook and Knight on any specific side without losing my Queen. Then they often chase the Queen and fall into a trap on the center. Also it would be good if you can learn Chess notation when you play someone. Go for the Algebraic because it is easy to learn. Where as each square is specific. IE: A1, H5, C6, etc. Learn about it here.
Usually when I play chess on Yahoo it sometimes freezes the game and I'm forced to quit and re-sign on and everything, which messes up my rating. Maybe it's because my computer has AIDS or something, but is there any other good site for online chess?
Used to, but I quit. My brother got third in Canada under 16. I'm decent I suppose, I can beat most competition in my city anyways...well used to.
<div class="quote_poster">MrJ Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Usually when I play chess on Yahoo it sometimes freezes the game and I'm forced to quit and re-sign on and everything, which messes up my rating. Maybe it's because my computer has AIDS or something, but is there any other good site for online chess?</div> Not sure, we'll see when I play you. You want to talk via IM or something about it?
Well, I haven't played chess in while, but this thread sort of got me back interested. So yesterday I played on Yahoo Chess. It took like 50 minutes for me to find an opponent, and when we started playing the guy called me a fag so I quit
