Chess - classic or dud?

Word. Sometimes I can't help it tho

Anyone live in NY? I want to start a weekly thang

The drunkest I ever got was playing that game (I was sucking right from the opening move and I ended up drinking most of a 26oz bottle of Southern Comfort). They almost called the police because they thought I was missing. I was actually in a bathroom in the Brandon University science building basement with my head in a sink. I don't think I've played chess since.
― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA59n9ZYIWg

I played a bunch of grade school kids last week who have a chess coach and play on iPads. I bested a 7 year old but a 9 caught me. It was also cool to play with physical pieces in real time rather than virtually with day long breaks or whatever.

Were you in a bar with kids?

Chess With Friends random just messaged me to say "I just had a bong, this game is going to be interesting".

I love the bong and the chess but they really don't mix well

calstars I am going to decline your challenge - I am giving up chess, for a while at least. I just can't stop making stupid, fatal mistakes. I was cruising to a victory in my last two games and I threw them both. Also my partner is getting annoyed at the amount of time I spend staring at my phone and chess was a big part of that, not that I can't find plenty of other reasons.

Matt DC just lost his game against me by abandonment. Summer sun and chess are a bad combination

I am absolutely shit at chess, don't know why, always have been

i have been teaching my niece (9) to play: she still hasn't quite mastered all the moves so i am currently able to beat her still but have been reassuring her this phase will not last long and i will slump back into my comfort zone of never having to master pawn endgames because my startlingly bold and disorientating sacrifice was as usual a hilarious blunder

she is much more competitive than me -- i am bad at games bcz i don't really care whether i win or lose -- but she is also less patient and more distractable than me

(ie the last game stumbled to her loss quite quickly bcz she wanted to play a not-very-successful variant of snap which she had invented)

Matt DC just lost his game against me by abandonment. Summer sun and chess are a bad combination

The Chess.com Android app is fantastic for lessons and problems etc but as an actual game it's terrible, I stopped noticing whenever someone had made a move.

Patience and distractibility are definitely a problem for me. Whether it's stumbling blindly into a trap I should have noticed or impulsively falling into one I was well aware of but momentarily forget about, I can't sustain the cautious and deliberative mindset required for *every* *single* *move*.

And then there was the time my friend thought I was playing a masterful endgame, when in fact i was painfully and nervously mapping out every single eventuality, and then forgetting the results after each of his moves and doing it all over again. Didn't exactly make me think I was a natural.

xp notifications are a bit flaky but if you open the app it's pretty clear...

I'd like to think Matt's motivation died a death when he ran into a fork on like move 5 :p

ledge no problem dude, maybe in the future

Aargh, I timed out on our 24h game when I was driving to Canada all day. Might accept your challenge or start another on the weekend. (Today is another travel day.)

dud

I'm up for a 24h game - cajunsunday. I'll add you lot on chess.com.

I've watched a few John Bartholomew videos and now I'm ready to take the world on.

If anyone's on Chess With Friends though hit me up - vastly prefer that interface.

meanwhile in the geopolitics of games that matter:

No website, without exception, may carry a live stream of the go match between Ke Jie and AlphaGo https://t.co/zy6q5RFmHt

— Ministry of Truth (@Mini_Truth) May 23, 2017

OK, I have wifi on the train so challenge accepted.

After awhile I just like to go on the offensive. Much fun

Crap, timed out on another game. Sorry, cajunsunday. (You would have probably won anyway.)

Cajun beat me

Ah I didn't know that was you Sund4r. Good game! Sorry you timed out.

Up +7 vs this 900 level schlub but he insists on playing it out

https://www.chess.com/news/view/death-match-returns-to-settle-internet-feud-2173

this is the event of the decade

Transforming a chess match into some wrestling type death match with foul language and "rivalry" to "entertain" people sounds like the worst thing ever. Give me Fischer vs Spassky any day of the week.

you don't watch their videos clearly :P

Correct. Merely read the rumbling announcement and saw the "explicit content" image. I'm old fashioned when it comes to chess. Got a video link for me to see why I should bother with these jackasses? :-)

My ranking on chess.com has fallen precipitously to a shameful 1000

This girl from NYC schooled me via same side knight advance in 3 moves to target king or queen, covered by same side bishop in one move. Fuckin deadly

I tend to avoid chess nowadays because it makes me feel so fucking dumb :( My rating went down to 950 over the years. It's not dumbness per se, rather that I do not play enough. That and alcohol probably.

Not making any excuses but I've learned the hard way that while I love to play while drinking, it's a bad idea if you care about your ranking

Yeah. Thing is I played chess best during my uni days, playing in the cafetaria, on the steps or in town, cafes. Drink was always there. The two have become intertwined.

i did some informal testing and my rating was a full 100-200 points lower when playing baked

I'm at around 1000 now, which is good for me.

tfw when you're up against someone worse than you

I was up 21 against this one dude and he insisted on playing it out...

I've been trying to play in a more conservative, defensive way, but it just doesn't suit me

Anyone tried 4 player chess on Chess.com? Looks pretty fun. Here's a video of Tal Baron playing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSH0kWcxqL0

Haven't tried

I always play with a 1day timer but I tried a real-time (5 min) game last week and just got destroyed.

5 min is insanely hard. 10 min is still very challenging but at least actually manageable and I can still run out of time

I play a lot of 10-minute. It may have helped my long game but probably not much, judging by the errors I still make

Also, while four-player chess is very interesting to me, who the hell crowdfunds a crushed laptop lol

watching finegold vs williams rn, simon's letting his country down something rotten

tfw your opponent's ranking increases by 100 + points during the course of your game

Rating now at 1001
I play every day but it’s still apparently amateur hour over here