The Chess Thread!

[JTW2007]

He decided to be fancy and promote everything.

Nah, fancy is when you sac everything but two pawns and promote to knight and bishop.

 

[Mr Cubism]

This is cool, mate i two moves :fp

 

[Rinfiyks]

I play chess, but only on facebook, it's quite nice because you get 14 days per move Plenty of time to think.

 

[foxfan352]

I play chess but I really just play it on my computer. I have a glass chess set but never use it. The only opening I know is the ruy lopez and thats about it. I also have a psp game about chess my level is 900 but I don't play it much.

 

[shelley]

I actually just started playing at a chess club a few months ago. I used to play more or less untimed games on Facebook, so playing with time controls is a new thing for me. That and I don't know much opening play and mostly improvise from what little I do know.

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

About 2 months ago I found a big box of old chess books in the attic, that got me into chess. I'm playing chess on internet quite fanatically now.

One of my recent games against a relatively high ranked player:


[Event "Let's Play!"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.06.16"]
[White "quade82"]
[Black "MaartenSmit"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1534"]
[BlackElo "1148"]
[TimeControl "1 in 1 day"]
[Termination "MaartenSmit won by resignation"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Bb4 5.Bd2 dxc4 6.e3 O-O 7.Bxc4 Nc6 8.O-O Nd5 9.Nxd5 exd5 10.Bd3 Bxd2
11.Qxd2 Bg4 12.Qe2 Re8 13.h3 Nxd4 14.Qd1 Bxf3 15.gxf3 Qg5+ 16.Kh1 Qh4 17.exd4 Qxh3+ 18.Kg1 Re6 19.Qd2 Rh6 20.Qxh6 gxh6
21.Be2 Kh8 0-1 (22. Bd3 Rg8+ 23. Bg6 Rxg6#)

13. ... Nxd4 was a really nice move imo.

 

[Rinfiyks]

13. ... Nxd4 was a really nice move imo.

I think so

Here's my favourite game I've played so far on facebook chess. I was black.

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. Bb5 Nf6
4. O-O a6
5. Ba4 d6
6. d4 Bd7
7. Bxc6 Bxc6
8. dxe5 Nxe4
9. exd6 Bxd6 I have a much better position after this opening
10. Re1 O-O
11. Nd4 Qf6
12. Nxc6 Nxf2 A bad move from white here
13. Qe2 Nh3+ I like Nh3+!
14. gxh3 Bc5+
15. Kh1 Rae8 White puts his king in a very vulnerable position
16. Rf1 Rxe2
17. Rxf6 gxf6
18. b4 Re1+ b4 puts white in a hopeless position
19. Kg2 Rxc1
20. bxc5 bxc6 White's position and material are hopeless by now
White resigns.

 

[Samania]

Chess has got to be my second favourite board game.

Number 1 is Monopoly

 

[Rinfiyks]

I like reversi

 

[Mr Cubism]

And here is a nice online computer Chess with the important "takeback"-button to adjuste misstakes
http://www.shredderchess.com/play-chess-online.html

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Chess huh?
I have a stragedy that captures the opponent's queen in one go. (By one go, I mean if they do what you hope they do)

 

[Feryll]

Chess huh?
I have a stragedy that captures the opponent's queen in one go. (By one go, I mean if they do what you hope they do)

Your stragedy sounds very great

Can anyone point me towards a guide for not TOTAL noobs, since I have played half-casually half-seriously with my dad, but I never really expanded to learning anything. I have a very good chance of winning against most people who don't play anything more than for fun, but I would lose to anyone with experience.

Also, what are some good offensive gambits to know? I like the Dutch/Danish gambit

 

[ShadenSmith]

Chess huh?
I have a stragedy that captures the opponent's queen in one go. (By one go, I mean if they do what you hope they do)

The finest way to strategize in chess, I do believe.

 

[Mr Cubism]

This chess page is interesting, openings explained with traps and animated moves:
http://www.chessnation.com/openingplay.html


And this is cool, the first computer ever beat the world champion:
http://www.chess-poster.com/great_games/gg_deep_blue.htm

 

[guinepigs rock]

i play me and my cousin do

 

[cubedude7]

I play a little bit of chess. It's fun and helps you improving!
My username: JorisM

 

[EmersonHerrmann]

I tried chess and I could probably do it but I don't have anyone to play with and I suck xD or maybe the people I play are good oh well, I'll stick with Scrabble :3 that does count and u know it

 

[04mucklowd]

I actually used to be the Chess Captain at my junior school
But that is not really saying much

 

[trying-to-speedcube...]

[Event "friendship - Board 31"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2010.06.18"]
[White "Coopah"]
[Black "MaartenSmit"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1573"]
[BlackElo "1154"]
[TimeControl "1 in 3 days"]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Bc4 Bg7 7.O-O O-O 8.Be3 Nc6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Qe2 d5
11.exd5 Nxd5 12.Nxd5 cxd5 13.Rfd1 e6 14.Bb3 Bxb2 15.Rab1 Qf6 16.Bc1 Bxc1 17.Rbxc1 Rd8 18.c3 Bb7 19.Qb5 Rab8 20.Qc5 Ra8
21.Qb5 Rdb8 22.Rd3 e5 23.Bxd5 Ba6

Game isn't over yet, but this move was so epic, I had to share Bxd5 would have been more logical and also nice, but this one is bound to win some material

 

[calekewbs]

Italian opening FTW. Oh, and I hate Sicillian. So whenever someone plays it against me, I just make it closed Sicillian with c4. It's actually really good. lol