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Title: Any chess players here?
Post by: Nimzo on June 12, 2011, 01:58:32 PM
If there are, we could do some "correspondence" style games here on the forum (and if we have enough people, we could go crazy and get into teams, or play bughouse exchange chess, or...).

Just throwing it out there.
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Asmodean on June 12, 2011, 02:17:51 PM
I'm mostly a weekender right now, but I'm in, why not...
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Tank on June 12, 2011, 02:46:18 PM
I know the rules and have played but I'm not much good at it  :-\
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Nimzo on June 12, 2011, 09:46:44 PM
Quote from: Tank on June 12, 2011, 02:46:18 PM
I know the rules and have played but I'm not much good at it  :-\
Do you have a chess board handy and know how to write down the moves?
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Whitney on June 12, 2011, 10:23:13 PM
i haven't really played much since middle school.

But I have seen online games that allow you to play against others (think yahoo games has one)...that might be easier than writing it down.

I'm not good enough to participate with any serious players...and that pretty much goes for every game since my approach is casual even for games I get into.
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Nimzo on June 12, 2011, 11:15:25 PM
Here's a puzzle to get the cogs whirring: White to move and mate in two - watch out for Black's pawn about to Queen!
(https://www.happyatheistforum.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi78.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj110%2FBeethovenv%2FChessProblem71-ToCatchAQueen-2.jpg&hash=543a6fa7a1437a5e72a3a6b1714df877d500eee3)
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: xSilverPhinx on June 13, 2011, 08:57:24 AM
Chess looks like an interesting game but I have no idea how it works. I can never remember the rules. ???

g1 to a7?

That's as far as I go ;)
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Asmodean on June 13, 2011, 09:47:12 AM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 13, 2011, 08:57:24 AM
Chess looks like an interesting game but I have no idea how it works. I can never remember the rules. ???

g1 to a7?

That's as far as I go ;)

g5 (or wherever that queen is) to a2 and then the second queen picks up the slack..?

Or g1-g7 and then react..? Because the knight is locked, so it will either be the rook or the pawn. If the rook moves, it's a checkmate next turn. If the pawn does... About the same, really.
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Nimzo on June 13, 2011, 05:14:25 PM
Quote from: Asmodean on June 13, 2011, 09:47:12 AM
Or g1-g7 and then react..? Because the knight is locked, so it will either be the rook or the pawn. If the rook moves, it's a checkmate next turn. If the pawn does... About the same, really.
Well done, this is correct (the Queens are on g1 and d5, not g5, by the way).  After 1.Qg7 black is in zugswang, which means he doesn't want to make any moves (imagine if Black could pass - White would still have no checkmate) but he has to.  His Knight is pinned by the queen on d5, so it can't move, which only leaves the rook and the queen, as you say.  Any rook move will allow 2. Qxb7# (either queen), and the pawn push 1. ...a1=Q allows 2. Qxa1#.
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Nimzo on June 13, 2011, 05:15:34 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 13, 2011, 08:57:24 AM
Chess looks like an interesting game but I have no idea how it works. I can never remember the rules. ???

g1 to a7?

That's as far as I go ;)

This is a good idea (queen sacrifices are very common in chess puzzles!), but after black takes the queen on a7 with his king, white has no follow up checkmate.
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: xSilverPhinx on June 13, 2011, 07:04:48 PM
Quote from: Nimzo on June 13, 2011, 05:15:34 PM
Quote from: xSilverPhinx on June 13, 2011, 08:57:24 AM
Chess looks like an interesting game but I have no idea how it works. I can never remember the rules. ???

g1 to a7?

That's as far as I go ;)

This is a good idea (queen sacrifices are very common in chess puzzles!), but after black takes the queen on a7 with his king, white has no follow up checkmate.

Dammit, why do I always think kamikaze with chessboard pieces?
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: MariaEvri on June 13, 2011, 07:35:07 PM
I was going to illustrate a child's bok about chess once, but the project stopped-too many books ut there. I had to read on chess though, although to be honest, I don;t remember anything
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Asmodean on June 18, 2011, 07:54:56 AM
Quote from: Nimzo on June 13, 2011, 05:14:25 PM
Well done, this is correct

Good to know Asmodean the Evil Tactician hasn't lost his touch  ;D
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Tom62 on June 19, 2011, 06:48:21 AM
I love playing chess. I've been playing the game since I was a teenager (more than a million years ago ;)). Nowadays, I play correspondence style of chess (max. 14 days per move) in an online chess club.
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: hismikeness on June 19, 2011, 06:11:16 PM
Quote from: Tom62 on June 19, 2011, 06:48:21 AM
I love playing chess. I've been playing the game since I was a teenager (more than a million years ago ;)). Nowadays, I play correspondence style of chess (max. 14 days per move) in an online chess club.

I did Chess with Friends on the iPhone for a couple weeks with my dad, but it sort of just fizzled out.
Title: Re: Any chess players here?
Post by: Tristan Jay on July 01, 2011, 12:49:40 AM
Ooooh, I love Chess, but in a moderate kind of way.  I don't get into timing moves, and I don't know the labelling system for those squares to save my life.  I teach as many people who have never played as I can, but I often forget and don't hunt down opportunities to play at places that specifically cater to Chess playing.

One thing I'm proud of is the opening I've developed.  If I remember to do it properly, it's great for maximizing the mobility of the heavier hitting pieces and still leaving a defense that is costly for an opponent to move against.  My favorite anecdote (this is the kind that you hear from a crazy cool uncle who will tell you the scariest bedtime story and then steal your lollipop, take it with a grain of salt) is when I played against a guy who claimed he had been a Chessmaster at one point.  He probably was telling stories, but, hey, he left me with a great one, I beat him pretty thoroughly.

Knights are my weakness, but don't tell anybody that.  I'm mean, there's a logic to how all the other pieces move, but the knights are out of control the way the bounce around all over the place!  My psychological Achilles heel.