Anyone into chess?

I'm not proposing a forum correspondence game btw - which you (or me will cheat on by using a computer), just wanna know if anyone likes to play chess.

I do enjoy playing chess and have played it every since I was young, but for some reason I'm really bad at it.

I'm more partial to checkers myself.



I see you made a bold move to start if off.



Well then I have to respond.

goddddddddddddd echoman why are you always the best

That would be one interesting game

Until you realize that you can just sit your pieces on the white tiles and never get hit

No matter, all it takes is determination! (but you are right though)

i do like to play me some chess from time to time. not GREAT at it, but fairly decent.

Use to play a lot, turned into one of the games my little brother made a point to become better than me.

I prefer Othello/Reversi.
*imagining how that would pan out*

Hehe... each time I get a white chessman or a red checker piece between two black coins, he becomes a black chessman or checker piece and defects to my side. >:-D

This could get interesting. :]

Unless you're the black biship... You kind of have no choice at that point.

Also... I figured you were refering to the chess pieces being on the white tiles because the checker pieces could easily get stomped on by most of the chess pieces (With the one exception being the white bishop which is useless in supposed game.)

I guess I win by default!

Woo

Not so fast, pal.

1. e4 fe5
2. Shadow Pikachu

I used to be a chess fan when I was little.. my interest recently became rekindled through watching Tal games (this one is good. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1139363), now I'm hooked again on the good stuff.

Shadow Pikachu???

Um... How exactly did that end? I checked out the game and it ends on move 37, on a check. Did he surrender? Because, although I may be a bit rusty, I know it wasn't checkmate. He could easily have moved his king to e7 or e8...

Grandmaster games rarely end in checkmate - they usually end, like this one, in one side acknowledging the other guy has a dominant position, continuation or material situation.

ie: Black is lost here.
If king goes to e8: queen takes g8 (check) - black king to row 7 - white rook takes black rook on f7 (check) - black king has to move to row 8 or 6 - white takes second black rook - etc... etc... this is lost for black, he should spare himself the pwnage and resign (which he did)

If king goes to e7: same situation, figure it out in your head a little, this is black's worst nightmare.

Said otherwise: this end position could be won by you our me against a chess master.

Liberius Vir, if you wanna see an exotic mate, here's a quick one by a genius: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1238130