| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 12/7/2007 9:04:59 PM | I stopped playing chess long long ago. Now I'm very rusty.
My big sister taught me how to play chess when I was 10-12 years old. Imagine my joy when a couple of years later one day I beat her in a game , though I played a little dirty tricks. But I proudly declared 'student has beaten the teacher'.
how often the computer will find a saving or even winning move, where the live opponent resigned.
One reason I can see is a computer program is written only to play chess, nothing else, no other interference during its move calculations. On the other hand, a human player processes other humanly thoughts while calculating chess moves. Deep blue could process 200 million moves in one second, I think the newer computers can do more, not sure though. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 12/8/2007 8:32:49 AM |
I took like, a half-hour per move. I agonized.
He would be doing twelve other things and make his move in two seconds. Like it was the easiest thing in the world. He didn't even pay attention to my move!
And he ALWAYS won.
Made me insane!!!!!
That would drive me nuts waiting that long for a move, but it happens.  If you play against a computer set to some of the lower settings so it moves fairly quickly. You can get a grasp of some of the better openings and as the computer is killing you, it provides an opportunity to learn some of the stradegy behind the game. When you learn some of that, your speed will also increase quite a bit.
The downside is after you reach a certain point, you start slowing down again because you are now seeing many more possibilties than you saw before. 
I honestly don't get too upset if I lose a game. You learn much more from your loses than you do from your victories. Just take a few minutes and reflect on where things fell apart and on what would have been a better move. Sometimes it's even good to ask your opponent for feedback on what they think of your game.
It's a game. If it ever got to the point where I took it too serious, it would stop being fun. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 12/8/2007 7:09:01 PM | I'm a player of chess. I enjoy it above all other games. I'm teaching my son how to play because he seems to have an interest. I wish I could find a lady who knows how to play chess too. It makes for spending some time together more interesting than just sitting in front of the T.V. on a cold winter's night. (Ok... there's other things we could do, but I know that not every day is going to be a day spent in bed, no matter how much we'd like to.  ) | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 12/10/2007 1:00:25 PM | | It is prefect, a heads up to Douglas Adams. But isn"t intimidation of the opponent part of the game? As for best mind to me it is Tesla, we are just starting to use his technologies now, but not a chess player though. I have found that computer analysis of masters games also besides finding the flaws and solutions, shows where the mistake was made. That is what I find inciteful. Easier to find the flaws in your games if you run across similar situations. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 12/10/2007 9:57:15 PM | ilegion...I'm the same about moves...that's why I play the computer and on line...I like the a minute per move. I'm going to buy me a chess clock so that I ever have a face to face, we can agree on a time and play.
Sorry you ladies had such bad experiences...even at my level 989 out of 23 rated games...I easily beat my sister who is rated in the 600's. We are both just learning and yes she has beat me.
I hate rote learning so doubt if I ever get pass a beginner. I would be interested in a book that focused on more then just memorizing moves...maybe a philosophy of chess?
I am learning a lot on this post ...looks like I've got a lot of reading to do. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 1/7/2008 8:07:28 PM | | Basic philosophy in the begining of a game is to gain as much control of the centre of the board as possible, as safely as possible. Be agressive but not to agressive that you weaken your home defense. Castle quickly, and count out sacrifices and trades so you come out at least even. Remember the three types of mid game checks, a fork check, a double check,(hard to pull off but extremely powerful) and my favorite, discovered check,(happens by moving a peice, and a peice guarding the peice you just moved creates check), other good peice of advice two rooks on a rank or a file make an extremely powerful tandem. Sometimes refered to as cannoning. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 1/7/2008 8:42:57 PM |
He would be doing twelve other things and make his move in two seconds. Like it was the easiest thing in the world. He didn't even pay attention to my move! Chances are it was an easy move for him. Not because he didn't pay attention to your move, but because he already had your move figured out. Another way of saying this is that he was playing from your side of the board. What would he do if he was you, it really is the only way to play chess.
You're setting up your defense before you even need much of a defense, make sense? You move here, I already know I'm moving here. Move there, I'm here, one step ahead of you.
Only mind game better than chess,,,,,,,,,,,, bridge, IMHO. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 1/7/2008 11:58:45 PM | | I've never played chess before,but I've always wanted to learn. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 2/13/2008 6:57:16 PM |
I hate rote learning so doubt if I ever get pass a beginner. I would be interested in a book that focused on more then just memorizing moves...maybe a philosophy of chess?
Fred Reinfield (sp?) wrote a book in the 50s titled "1001 Brilliant Ways To Checkmate" or something like that. Great book, but it is almost entirely chess problems. It forces you to see different board positions as well as gives you an idea of how your pieces are supposed to work together. It will improve your game a great deal. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 2/14/2008 5:08:04 AM | I am curious if you play against the computer, others or Internet sites. Good question. I play on internet sites...but I suspect that alot of the time I'm actually playing against computers when I do that. I don't really care though, I feel that I benefit more by using my own skills than an opponent who uses a computer programme will. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 2/14/2008 12:20:32 PM | | Oh my goodness - just a basic game - haven't played in years. One summer I played a bunch of chess with my brother, but not since then. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 2/14/2008 1:42:31 PM | When I was in University, I did join the Chess Club, but the president said my games didn't qualify for rankings. Which is to say, I was too far below the calibre of most players in the club for me to be a legitimate contender.
Of course, these guys ALSO played Bridge. Here's an example of bidding in one game, South dealing. West: 1diamond. North: 1heart. East: pass. South (counts in head, contemplates West... then North... then East): 7spades. West: Double. All pass. South/North did make 6 spades.
When playing chess, I do have a defensive set up that most casual players find too brutal to crack. Assuming I'm playing Black:
Pawn: g7-g6; Bishop: f8-g7; Knight: g8-h6; Castle: e8xg8/h8xf8
I prefer playing against other casual players. The amount of study required to get truly good would be boring to me. I also prefer playing humans to computers (well, with the exception of Archon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_%28computer_game%29) because you can play mind-games with people that computers wouldn't fall for. Something I've done to a couple of casual players, is aggressively push my knight and rook's pawns and get into a pawn-slap fight. If you do it right, your opponent will take your knight's pawn, you retaliate with your rook's pawn. Ideally, they will take your rook's pawn with their rook's pawn... and then you take their rook with yours, and commence a back-field pillage. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 2/14/2008 2:14:33 PM | I'm from a large family and we played a lot of chess but it's been years since I got out my racket. Kidding. I used to like to get one sibling or another close to checkmate and then turn the board around to see if I could get out of the jam I put them in. Half the time it lead to a squabble over this or that.
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 2/17/2008 12:09:21 PM | | Oh man it's been so long since I played. Used to play a lot when I was younger; including several tournaments back in elementary and high school. Peaked in Gr. 6 when I made the nationals (got to go to Edmonton which was pretty sweet); it's been downhill ever since! Those were some good times though. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 5/21/2008 3:58:12 PM | yep i play online , 1800 standard rating can,t seem to improve though .
paul murphy taught me ideas are better than material gain
only started playing in my 30's keeps the old brain box ticking
He would be doing twelve other things and make his move in two seconds. Like it was the easiest thing in the world. He didn't even pay attention to my move!
And he ALWAYS won.
yes i do that with my sister , if the person your playing is making fudermental mistakes ,you realy dont need to think so far ahead ,actually women who do master chess are a nightmare to play against very tactical
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 9/21/2008 11:41:08 PM | | ah my friend bridge and chess are like handball to the game of go. Go, the game that takes five minutes to learn how to move, and a lifetime to master. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 9/22/2008 9:01:26 AM | I used to play. Taught my son how to play. Haven't played in a long time though.
Got rusty as heck...I think a 10 yr old could thump me now! | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 9/22/2008 12:46:59 PM | My heart would definitely fall in love with a woman who loves the game of chess.
But I have better chance of winning the lottery before that would come to pass
Name the opening & variation
f4...............e5
fxe5............d6
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 9/22/2008 3:54:15 PM | | I am passionate towards Chess. But, it is difficult to find women playing Chess. Anyone interested? We can play online at freechess.org or probably yahoo games. | |
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| Anyone play chess?
Posted: 9/23/2008 3:19:41 PM | | I play chess. I'm active in the piece movement. | |
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