How good are you at Chess?

[zeergoth]

Anyone this good?
[youtube=425,350]evZmpsl3jI0[/youtube]

[MrAngryFace]

I know the rules but I dont remember any of the good opening moves, which are like 80% of winning lol

[bud]

nobody ever tought me how to play it

[Beezy]

I know the rules but I dont remember any of the good opening moves, which are like 80% of winning lol

Same here. I learned it in elementary school though and I didn't learn that many opening moves to begin with.

[CajoleJuice]

I've never bothered to learn any "moves".

[thekavorka]

Connect 4 is my game

[Madrun Badrun]

I've never bothered to learn any "moves".

same.

[MrAngryFace]

The moves are the whole game. The rules just teach you how to stretch a game out past 3 minutes

[BlueTsunami]

I've never bothered to learn any "moves".

Here too. I usually think on the fly but that results in me losing

[Madrun Badrun]

we should start an evilbore chess club 

[zeergoth]

LOL I can't think moves ahead, I just look at the pieces and think "hmm...that looks good" I always waste my pawns at the beginning lol.

[brawndolicious]

I remember a few basic moves from a summer school chess class I took when I was in elementary school.  It was the practice that I got in that class that helped me more actually, I learned how at the very least how to survive depending on the skill level of my opponent since we were split by skill level and would have try-outs for the next higher level.

I really got into chess a lot more when I learned how to capitalize more on an opponent losing certain pieces other than the king.  I guess that's really the only trick.

[demi]

I love Chess, playing Puzzle Quest is just like it for the most part

[demi]

Also, Darren Brown is a stupid cigarillo -- the Britain's Criss Angel

[CajoleJuice]

I love Chess, playing Puzzle Quest is just like it for the most part

[Gay Boy]

I've never learned how to play and don't care to

[Ichirou]

I love Chess, playing Puzzle Quest is just like it for the most part

I saw the Japanese PSP version of Puzzle Quest today.  It was released as part of the simple 2500 series (I think that's what it's called).  I wonder if they fixed the bugs for the JP version.

[xnikki118x]

I learned to play chess in high school to impress a boy. I don't get to play often because no one ever plays it with me, but I do like it a lot.

I have no strategy, though. I win often, but it's always like dumb luck, you know? I can't plan my moves in advance.

[Prost]

i just look at each piece and try to think like 6-7 moves ahead.  i dont really know what that means though, i assume what the best thing would be for the other player and consider that to be one time each, and if he doesnt do what the best move was, well then fuck i have him.

i havent lost to anyone in chess for a long time except one timed game i played against an old wc3 buddy like a month ago.  it's so tough with time, thats where old practice and repetition comes in ;(

but fuck chess! SC is where it's at!



and that video was so predictable.  you knew he was cheating right away, and once he predicted the numbers it was like omg he mirrored them... but i truly was astonished at how he came out on top.  the 9th table threw me.

[Mandark]

Blah, saw what he was doing right away.  He deliberately didn't mention how many boards he was playing white or black on.

I'm pretty sure this was the solution to some Encyclopedia Brown mystery, or something similar.

[brawndolicious]

I think encyclopedia brown was a racist.

[Mandark]

Well, he was definitely a sexist.

There was one story where he spotted a male criminal in drag, because even though he was dressed as a woman, he was sitting in a restaurant with his back to the window.

According to EC, everyone knows that the woman sits facing the window, because she has better table manners than the man.

I think at this point I dropped Encyclopedia Brown and just stuck with Slylock Fox.


edit: On second thought, it was probably his sidekick Sally who figured it out.  She'd get to bust out her Distaff Detective Skillz every now and then on particularly girly subjects.

[brawndolicious]

I never got that into EB.

[Prost]

Well, he was definitely a sexist.

There was one story where he spotted a male criminal in drag, because even though he was dressed as a woman, he was sitting in a restaurant with his back to the window.

According to EC, everyone knows that the woman sits facing the window, because she has better table manners than the man.

I think at this point I dropped Encyclopedia Brown and just stuck with Slylock Fox.


edit: On second thought, it was probably his sidekick Sally who figured it out.  She'd get to bust out her Distaff Detective Skillz every now and then on particularly girly subjects.

man you know all about this

[recursivelyenumerable]

per a recent GAF thread, chess is apparently dated and ugly much like FFT.