I'm just curious to see how many people are playing chess here. I started recently and I really like it. It's a very good concentration training, I'm not surprised they're introducing it in elementary schools.

I play chess. We should play sometime!

SFN Chess server!

Didn't we have a chess tourney when we had an arcade?

I play chess. We should play sometime!

 

yep, that would be very interesting, but as I said I'm quite new, I know the stalemate rule for less than 1 1/2 year

 

How strong are you, and where do you play ?

Didn't we have a chess tourney when we had an arcade?

 

You had an arcade? Darwin, what's happened to all these cool extra things?

Dave got pwned at Chopper Challenge, so they got rid of the arcade....AGAIN!

Competitively or just casual play? I like competitive chess, and as such I'm a rated player.

I don't have any official rating yet. I'm rated a little below 1700 on FICS/ICC.

Well chess is a fantastic exercise for the mind. simply to be different i tend to play the Chinese variant known as Xiang Qi. I find it slightly easier to play even though i grew up playing European/Indian Styled chess. It is truly a good game. I look back at my primary school years and am glad to have had a chess board in the class room whenever there was a rainy day.

does drinking chess count? i tend to play that more than normal chess now.

 

i'm not very good at either anyway. i can get the upper hand early in the game but when it comes to finishing it off i start losing concentration. unless i have a rook and a queen i find it impossible.

does drinking chess count? i tend to play that more than normal chess now.

 

I've played that a few times, do you have the shot glasses chess set ? Or have you come up with some alternative rules ? My house-mate has the drinking chess set, though it's in storage at the moment. Might be worth getting out for Christmas.

 

http://www.shotglasschess.com/rules.htm

Chess and Darts are the Only games I play.

i had the shotglass chess set but most of the shot glasses have since been broken for one reason or another so now we just play with normal pieces and have the shot glasses off to the side now. or we take a swig of the bottle. rules have remained the same.

I'm just curious to see how many people are playing chess here. I started recently and I really like it. It's a very good concentration training, I'm not surprised they're introducing it in elementary schools.

 

I am. I'm a fairly good player, and have played in a few competitions. Compared to the average person, its pretty ridiculous

Chess is inferior to Go!

fair enough then, you GO, and we`ll play chess

 

don`t let the door hit you in the a$$

I play chess with who ever i can find. I am not very good at all and not many people i I know play, so i don't play much.

Chemkid

I used to play in tournaments against other schools with the school chess club. Now I just play a couple of games on MSN chess every weekend, which probably makes me rustier if anything!

I play. In college I played maybe a dozen games a week, all casual, against a few different friends, who ranged in skill from beginners to a minor "chess celebrity." For a while I was pretty good, but I rarely play nowadays, and I'm definitely very rusty.

Chess is inferior to Go!

 

I've recently become interested in Go, but haven't had much chance to learn how to play. I can't find many players. It does seem interesting that it hasn't been mastered by computers yet even though the rules are so simple.

Has anyone ever played Field Commander? That's a pretty fun one.

Chess is inferior to Go!

 

Probably, Chess is a very tactical game, it's made for computers . I just started to look at Go, it seems great ! Are you a good Go player ?

I taught my son to play chess, played lots, until he began to beat me, then I lost interest. I wonder why?

I taught my son to play chess, played lots, until he began to beat me, then I lost interest. I wonder why?

 

Just like my dad then. Gotta watch out for us young ones