[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Chess!! (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 2/5/2013 4:26:56 PM EDT
| How many Chess players do we have on here?? |
| I keep a couple games going at http://www.redhotpawn.com. I'm not very good, but I like to play. |
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I used to play over at Redhotpawn.com I'm not that good - rated about 1250. To be more specfiic, I am competent with moments of brilliance and other moments of complete and absolute stupidity. I've played for a long time....but I simply don't have the "know" when it comes to doing specific leads and tactics anymore. Used to have a few starters that would end the game in a few moves, now....I just move pieces at whim  .
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i was decent at 40 in 2, but my best blitz rating was only ~1650. in regular time control, i was competitive against class As and experts, but got pounded by the masters i knew. got absolutely blown off the board by an IM whose name escapes meat the moment. the final position was so overwhelming that it looked like a study problem. last serious game i played was over 10 years ago. i had the black in a dragon sicilian that went cosmically weird--i forced ...f6, ...e5, and ...d5, if that tells you anything. anyway, i wound up losing, but my opponent and i were really excited because we thought we had played an original game (which is pretty rare anymore). so we ran off to chessbase to look it up. sure enough, the identical game had been played a few years before, all the way up to 29: ...(black resigns). just got bored with it after that. have played a few casual games since then, but i don't have the motivation to put study time in anymore. |
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Quoted: I love chess and would really like to understand the game better. Always wanted to take some pro lessons. you only need 1 book: "how to reassess your chess" by jeremy silman. there's a ton of wonderful books out there (nimzovich, soltis, tactics guides, opening concepts), but silman's book trumps everything out there IMO. |
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I played the computer games. I've got a nice stand alone computer game that moves its own pieces. I could beat it about half way through the levels and thought I was at least decent.... Until I played a person who knew the game.
I was embarassed and amazed. There truely are people who play chess and people who move pieces around the board. The game can teach a lot and is well worth expending time on. I wish I had the time to devote to learning the real game. |
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I love chess and would really like to understand the game better. Always wanted to take some pro lessons. you only need 1 book: "how to reassess your chess" by jeremy silman. there's a ton of wonderful books out there (nimzovich, soltis, tactics guides, opening concepts), but silman's book trumps everything out there IMO. Thanks for the heads up, think ill check that out. |
| I like to play but I'm not very good and I don't get to play against people too often. I usually play on my ipod or on the laptop. Last August I played against an old guy at a San Diego mall and lost. Some of the Westfield Plaza malls in San Diego have chess sets so people can play. They have both table top versions and larger ones where the chess pieces are about knee high. |
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Got into it and played quite a bit for a couple of years. Would sit down with a buddy of mine and play a single game for hours on end. Knew lots of strategy back then, but have forgotten nearly all of it now. I go through phases where I play the windows chess game, but at level 5, the computer beats my ass most of the time. Can be a very intense game.
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that's just evil! |