Always a good time in a game of Chess... though Risk is a great game as well.

Any budding Chessmasters here?

I used to play chess a lot when I was younger. Don't really know anyone that I can get together with to play. Not to mention the time needed to get together to play.

well, i usually spend less than an hour in a game but it's been a while for me. mayhaps a challenge one night using one of the multitude of chess progs out there.

Last time I played was about a year ago, me and one of my resellers split a bottle of mead and played both chess and klin zha. I enjoy playing, but it's hard to hook up with folks I know who play.

I have always wanted to learn how to play...just never took the time. Really have never had a good teacher either.

Well, surprisingly enough this thread has given me a great idea for another use with OpenRPG... I'm gonna make up some miniatures and a chessboard we could use to play with online. Since I hang out in the program alot anyway I think it'd be a neat idea to have a persistant chess room.

If anyone ever wants to play a friendly game or learn to play just let me know.

Supprisingly, (or not) Chess in my youth is what got me into wargames today...

in other words

I blame chess for my $1000 a year warhammer habbit.

:D

There is a nice little web site that you can play chess at it also has all the rules so if you wanted to learn Bluedragon1981 it's a fun way to do so.

http://www.princeton.edu/~jedwards/cif/intro.html

But why do you guys have to find someone in RL to play with? If you have a board at home then you can play with anyone online. Since there is a bunch of you here that like to play then team up and set your boards up and post your moves here. Just identify the piece you wish to move and use the names for the positions on the board then your opponent will move your piece on his board at home and then post his move etc.
My great grandfather was chess champion of Wales and he played long distance with friends like this only they did it with letters they wrote back and forth LOL and he had more than one board going at a time and yes it took a long time to finish a game. :D

Here is a page that shows you how to write chess moves
http://www.uschess.org/beginners/read/index.php

That is good information ..... I will try to check it out within the next couple of days.

I used to play chess, but its been many years. I also learned Chinese chess and Japanese chess (shogi). After playing Shogi, normal Chess just did not seem the same... I'd recommend checking shogi out. the only real problem is its difficult to find people to play with. If you have alot of asians in you area though, you could probably find a group to play with.

Risk... used to play that one to until I found Axis and Allies. Now that game rocks :-) too bad it takes to long to play...

*snickers* My version of chess wouldn't work well on the internet. I learned in highschool and I was the only girl in the chess club, so I had the boys at a disadvantage... Sometimes boobs won the game.

My husband doesn't play and I've been meaning to teach him so I can try to learn to play fairly, but we just haven't gotten around to finding the time for it.

You just need a webcam... lol

I tried teaching my wife how to play chess once but she has a hard time planning ahead and I won most of the time.

My dad taught me how to play when I was fairly young but stopped playing me because it bored him, and no one else I knew liked chess so I didn't play again until a handful of years ago when my husband got my daughter interested. So he kicked my ass repeatedly until I figured out he was queen dependent and how to win without mine. Once I beat him a few times without my queen he became harder to play. Then as soon as I took his queen, he'd forfeit. Now he won't play me at all. Buzzkill.

BUT - all my kids know how to play - even my autistic teenager. His game needs a lot of work, but I'll have someone to play chess with for the rest of my life. I actually look forward to the day he can beat me.

You just need a webcam... lol
Hey that's not a bad idea! Web cams are cheap, we got ours for less than 25 (Canadian) and you could set them up so that it's only focused on your hands and the board and no one has to see your in you pj's, your hair is in curlers and the face mask is on. :iohmy: ;)

Hey that's not a bad idea! Web cams are cheap, we got ours for less than 25 (Canadian) and you could set them up so that it's only focused on your hands and the board and no one has to see your in you pj's, your hair is in curlers and the face mask is on. :iohmy: ;)
Wait. People can use webcams like that?
Whoa.

I'm not sure the internet is ready for that idea yet. :)

Wait. People can use webcams like that?
Whoa.

I'm not sure the internet is ready for that idea yet. :)
More seriously, a play by internet game would be fun.

Course, I know what you're thinking......

We can do it, just need some simple rules, and maybe a way to either update a board here?