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Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 6:01 am Post subject:
I like playing chess, when everybody else is playing checkers! _________________ ♪ ♫One good thing about music, when it hits, you feel no pain...
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 3:49 pm Post subject:
Best I ever finished was second place at a small, local tournament. Still play it every now and then, but I never had the heart to devote too much time to it. Beautiful game.
Did not like playing it on my computer, mostly because I've never really found a good website/program. That said, I haven't looked in a few years. Any nice sites?
_________________ “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
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Best I ever finished was second place at a small, local tournament. Still play it every now and then, but I never had the heart to devote too much time to it. Beautiful game.
Did not like playing it on my computer, mostly because I've never really found a good website/program. That said, I haven't looked in a few years. Any nice sites?
Chess.com is a cool website to play chess. You can play against a computer or human there. There are many time formats to choose from. Masters also play there and it has a helpful forum/article lessons.
Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 67998 Location: In a world where admitting to not knowing something is considered a great way to learn.
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 9:00 pm Post subject:
Cutheon wrote:
Best I ever finished was second place at a small, local tournament. Still play it every now and then, but I never had the heart to devote too much time to it. Beautiful game.
Did not like playing it on my computer, mostly because I've never really found a good website/program. That said, I haven't looked in a few years. Any nice sites?
I have windows 7. There's a great chess game there, Chess Titians. You can play level 1 thru 10. I've beaten it at 7.
If you have 7 go to search programs and files, type in chess titians, enter. I believe you can also find it online. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Joined: 15 Nov 2006 Posts: 19877 Location: Prarie & Manchester, high above the western sideline
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 10:38 pm Post subject:
I like to move my Queen to H5 on the 2nd move in dramatic fashion, a threatening display of might, yanking it up as high as my shoulder can take it and then emphatically slamming the piece down onto the board like one of those homeless bastards in central park. Then when my opponent inevitably takes my Queen in the next couple of moves, I just yawn and leave the table like I was half-heartedly joking around, which I was, but also because I was too much of an idiot to be interested in chess. I've only played a handful of times and they all started something like "Oh, this is the King, not the Queen? Can we start over?" Not too long afterwards, we'd always get bored, leave the pieces a mess, and move on to something else like using large water balloons to dislodge the shingles on this one neighbor kid's house...he was a straight up ho cake. _________________ http://chickhearn.ytmnd.com/
Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 67998 Location: In a world where admitting to not knowing something is considered a great way to learn.
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 2:10 am Post subject:
You know you got a Trick Willy when they go for the Mate in 4. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 67998 Location: In a world where admitting to not knowing something is considered a great way to learn.
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:11 pm Post subject:
I find it challenging to sometimes start on defense. I use Dragon Sicilian.
Concentrate on developing. I also caution on being first to capture. I play defense.
Attack me I defend. Attackers are vulnerable if they don't see I know what they're planing.
I try to play five move chess.
Patience is a virtue when playing chess. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
This app is AMAZING. The app allows you to load in any chess book in pdf or epub format and play through the material with a split screen chess board. Not many people have pdf or epub chess books, but if you do, this is a must have app.
Chess Book Study Free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pereira.booknboard
A New Generation Fights for the World Chess Championship
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When Magnus Carlsen, the reigning World Champion from Norway, and Sergey Karjakin, his Russian challenger, face off in the title match this November in New York City, it will be the dawn of a new era in chess.
It will be the first time that none of the players of the older generation, represented by former champions like Viswanathan Anand of India, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, and Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, will be competing for the title.
Carlsen, 25 (who will be 26 at the end of the match) and Karjakin
Magnus Carlsen of Norway has won the World Chess Championship for the third consecutive time after defeating challenger Sergey Karjakin of Russia.
Carlsen sealed victory following three weeks of play and a series of tiebreakers in New York.
Karjakin tied against Carlsen in 12 regular rounds but was beaten in the final phase of four quickfire games.
Organisers said the event was followed by about six million chess fans around the world.
Hundreds of spectators paid between $100 and $500 to watch the games at a former fish market in Manhattan, separated from the two grandmasters by soundproof glass.
The king is back: Chess legend Garry Kasparov comes out of retirement
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His painful and very public defeat against IBM's Deep Blue computer heralded the end of human dominance over artificial intelligence.
Yet 20 years on Garry Kasparov is still considered the greatest chess player in history, a genius so special he became world champion at 22 and was then almost invincible for two decades.
Now, 12 years after he turned his back on the professional game, the king is back.
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