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That's because you pick only the best challengers.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

that's a lie, i'm not that good! only ken and greg have beaten me so far tho. chris i now challenge thee...

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I am taking it slow.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I am all chessed out.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 24 March 2005 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

All this online chess has got me playing the chess game you get with osx. Only to find it beats me even easier than everyone on redhotpawn (except ken).

But isn't the programme designed to play like a master? I mean, it beats me easier than anyone on redhotpawn, Yahoo Chess, and offline too. Not to mention that playing in real time makes things more challenging. The programme plays with my head - I think I've made a safe capture of a major rank but actually I've played a part in creating a setup that materializes 5 moves later and which ends up cutting me off from even moving.

What's a good book on strategy that's easy to follow? I took out Evans' Chess Questions Answered, which is useful, but I find its layout to not be totally user-friendly.

Tomorrow night I aim to see if chess lessons can be transferred to the kickboxing ring.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, I fear over-dogmatic application of 'rules' from Evans may have cost me against blueski.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Sundar does not so much have me by the balls, but rather has a pair of tweezers with which he keeps plucking ball hairs, with no warning, one by one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 24 March 2005 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm scared of you guys who are actually STUDYING this now!!

haha and just to immortalise it (before captainzep kills the streak)
http://www.lolrider.com/pwn/pawn3d.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 24 March 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

WOW. You're a hero!

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Miccio's in! I didn't realize this. We'll have to face off when I'm done one of these games.

I dunno, Chris, I don't really feel like I've got anything solid at this point.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 24 March 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Meanwhile, Bobby Fischer verbally shits all over the U.S. as he gets off his jet in Iceland

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 25 March 2005 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

He's not looking so well.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

0 for 3!

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

chris: I have no idea what is going on.
julia: is beating me.
ambrose: I will avenge my queen.
tiefschwarz: is wiley.
cathy: I have no idea what's going on.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I also have no idea what is going on.

I grow tired of Sundar having a life. I am way too interested in the outcome of this game!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

julia put the smack down on me!

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

well played, too good.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yay, thanks!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 25 March 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You are all taking far too long! I am stuck in Rugby, and all I have for entertainment is chess and Michael Caine's "Not Many People Know That" Almanac of Amazing Information. Did you know that Napolean had a pathological fear of cats?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, feel free to hit me up again if you'd like.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I am already playing the maximum number of people, unfortunately. Did you know that Wagner composed some of his music while wearing fancy dress?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it mention Satie and the lobster?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

No, but it should. Did you know that lobsters have blue blood?

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

did you know how to spell "napoleon"?

; )

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you know?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 25 March 2005 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I may not be able to spell Napoleon, but I did just beat you. ; )

― Cathy (Cathy), Friday, 25 March 2005 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, did you?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

it's napoleOn.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 26 March 2005 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

hard o.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Moving drunk, there. Arse.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 26 March 2005 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

haha! haha!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 26 March 2005 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Son of a bitch! I didn't even see that coming. Oh well, lasting 49 moves is still an achievement for me.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 26 March 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Now THAT time I saw an endgame!

That was a kick-ass game. When you moved your rook back up to H1, did you realize I could take it?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I wanted to get your knight out of the way. I was scared of that knight-pawn team at my home row. Maybe it would have been wiser at the time to move the rook closer to my queen and just trade the bishop for the knight? My biggest weakness was in letting your pawn get that close in the first place.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The first move you made that I wasn't sure of was when you moved your rook down from -- wait, I was black... -- A1 to A5 when I was threating the massive triple knight fork. I thought you would move it to B1. I wasn't sure if you were being superclever, though! Also you had your knight fork waiting so you nearly escaped unscathed.

I thought it was a great game with many excellent moves (once we got past the very cautious opening). But who knows, experts might think we missed a million opportunities!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, I see it. I think I actually missed that your bishop was protecting B4 + I was being overcautious in wanting to watch my queen's back. B1 would have made more sense in retrospect but for some reason I don't think I even thought of that.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 26 March 2005 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i think when i finally lose this game i'm going to retire from chess... it's very tiring!!

...and four days later still it grinds on. From the position I'm in I

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

{OOPS} ...should win easily, but I'm starting to get jittery.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Sunday, 27 March 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i had an opportunity to have possibly made things really difficult a couple moves back

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 March 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Miccio's in! I didn't realize this

no i'm not. I finally checked this thread after Ken C implied there might be pictures of girls here. There aren't and now I find out somebody is imitating me on a chess online forum. wacky. some pals in town went chess-mad last year and I burnt out. THE REAL ANTHONY IS NOT PLAYING CHESS ONLINE. HE IS PLAYING A GAME CALLED DIAMONDMINE ON SHOCKWAVE.COM. ALONE. AS HE WANTS IT.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 28 March 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

haha so who the fuck am I playing?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

whoever has been imitating you has been rubbish! that's all i can say.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 28 March 2005 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I just mated blueski without, um, without realizing I had done it until the computer told me.

Just as well, I have to catch a train. Back in a few days.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It was all "rematch" and I was all "how did he resign so quickly?"

That said, 28 ..Nf6e4 is my favorite move I have ever made ever, I think. I waited half the game to pull that sneaky-sneak off.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, the game's almost up - we should've wrapped it up tonight - it's going right to the wire!

i beat ambrose on exactly 50 moves i think

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

The game IS up!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

the penny hasn't dropped yet

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i am on course to lose every game now

:(
anyone who wants to win for a confidence boost, im yr man

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The game IS up!

oh crap, i didn't see that coming. how disappointing.

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

My first win! And appropriately, against the first person to whom I lost.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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