kenoki wrote:i love chess. i'm not great at it though. actually i'm not even good. but i love it!!!

when i play my boyfriend he ends up doing moves that i didn't even know existed. it makes me mad! i think he makes them up. "oh yeah, this is the gulliver's travel. you HAVEN'T HEARD OF THE GULLIVER'S TRAVEL!?" and it seems like these are endless, while my understanding is very basic.

i've been playing turnbase chess on facebook (the mychess application). if anyone wants to win lemme know!

Does he ever mention "en passe"?

OOps, I meant "en passant".

Lame.

Dylan wrote:

kenoki wrote:i love chess. i'm not great at it though. actually i'm not even good. but i love it!!!

when i play my boyfriend he ends up doing moves that i didn't even know existed. it makes me mad! i think he makes them up. "oh yeah, this is the gulliver's travel. you HAVEN'T HEARD OF THE GULLIVER'S TRAVEL!?" and it seems like these are endless, while my understanding is very basic.

i've been playing turnbase chess on facebook (the mychess application). if anyone wants to win lemme know!

Does he ever mention "en passe"?

OOps, I meant "en passant".

Lame.

haha! but yeah, i am familiar with en passant, that and castling. those are the only two tricky things i have learned. i know of en passant because after playing with bf for a few years he pulled that one out of his ass and was like "oh yeah, this is an en passant. enjoy!" i looked it up on the internetz later and found out he was doing it wrong anyway. what a jerk.

No real chess player would resort to a lame move like the en passant.

Dylan wrote:No real chess player would resort to a lame move like the en passant.

No real chess player would try to pussyfoot past an encroaching pawn.

Dylan wrote:No real chess player would resort to a lame move like the en passant.

This is a silly thing to say, Dylan. If it's the best move in the circumstances, it's the best move. If it's a lame move in the circumstances, it's a lame move.

Sigh...

My teacher put me into a chess tournament in the 3rd grade. It was the 3rd grade and for fuck's sake, I was happy just to know how the friggin' Knight ("horsey") moved and that you were supposed to get the King.

I had beaten my brother a bunch, but I guess that didn't mean much - some floppy-brown-haired boy beat me in the first round with some trick trap gizmo. I was crushed; I hadn't known trick moves existed. When I got home, I was made fun of a lot for losing. Yup, buncha jerks. I didn't play again for years.

The next time I played chess was about four years ago, with a friend of mine who was really good - ranked at something-or-other. It was fun because he explained what my good instincts were and where I needed work. He told me that I had him running for quite a spell. I had no idea and, of course, he ended up crushing me, but I had a great time. Another drunken night, I actually won a couple of games - with his having a strong handicap.

So, I wouldn't mind giving chess another go. Just keep floppy-brown-haired boys away from me. NC

John CIV wrote:

Dylan wrote:No real chess player would resort to a lame move like the en passant.

This is a silly thing to say, Dylan. If it's the best move in the circumstances, it's the best move. If it's a lame move in the circumstances, it's a lame move.

It just seems like an obscure move to most of the players I've encountered, and only viable 1 time out of 1,000.

But maybe I'm just saying all this because I don't know how to do it.

Dylan wrote:But maybe I'm just saying all this because I don't know how to do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant

i'm fucking horrible at chess but like to play it...i should really look into these books mentioned earlier...

not crap...