Chess - classic or dud?

my game against calstars is going perhaps even worse than my game against matt dc is going well

Paul Morphy would often play exhibition games without a rook and win though so I just gotta channel that

My queen is invading Mordy's personal space

i don't think we're playing a game

I mean Imago. Sorry!
Mordy, I tried to challenge you a couple days ago but got a system error

try again!

Must...not...take on... a new activity

Count me in for the tournament. I'm ilxwtev on there.

i think i've got u sund4r

Probably true. I'm mostly hoping to last as long as I can, especially compared to our blitz game.

unless i'm missing something i think it's mate in 2 moves

possibly 3 if u sac a piece to delay

Yep, go for it.

calstars has helpfully handed back a knight, ty

Love you guys but I have to unbookmark this thread if youse going to talk through moves here.

(This is coming from someone who is too chicken to play in an ilx tournament tbf)

What's your nick?

I'd probably be interested in a tournament, depending on what the terms are.

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

i'm now wtevilx on chess.com if the tourney goes ahead.

so far we've got :

ilxmordy
wtevilx/ ilxwtev
MarteauSansMaitre (potentially)
acoleuthic
myself

come on lurkers, show thyselves

Is it bad to play while drunk / distracted by butts? Oh well, I solider on.

i play stoned sometimes - it generally doesn't work out too well

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