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Chess Players on GFY?
Anyone? I play online at FICS (free internet chess server) which is the best place short of ICC (internet chess club) which costs about $50 a year last I remember. ICC is real nice because all the grandmasters play there, so you can watch them play, also lots of lectures and stuff. But whatever there's always lots of people that can kick my ass at FICS so why bother paying.
I use this client for PC: http://www.babaschess.net/ The best Mac client is: http://www.jinchess.com/ My nick is SocksManly if you'd like to play, once you sign up you can add me to your notify list with the command: +notify socksmanly To look for a game you type: seek 5 0 (5 minutes, 0 second increment) I play mostly lightning 1 0 nowadays, 1 minute per side. I'm decent I guess, nothing special. Hope to see some of you there. ![]() |
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Used to play all the time, but don't get time these days.
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If you have time for GFY you have time for some 1 0 !
I don't play 90 minute/side games locally anymore, but I find Chess is great for taking small breaks at the PC. Instead of getting lost for hours doing something else, I can play a few quick games and get back to doing stuff. Also it's great while waiting for something to finish, like a long copy or a video encode or whatever. Play a quick game and then check back on what you were doing. |
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Lately I have been using a chess app that gave a ridicules rating of +1980 which I believe is a Grandmasters rating (which i am not) I was on chess.com for a while.
Maybe I should try this but it's all about time zones, aren't you EST? |
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Fuck I am garbage at Chess. I guess I just need to put more time in. I love strategy gaming, but I just blow fucking nuts at Chess. Tried to get into it a few month back and was playing once in a while on Yahoo Games, but getting your ass handed to you repeatedly gets old fast.
I am ranked #38 out of like 100,000 active Carcasonne players on Xbox Live though. I'm sitting at #12 on the weekly rankings right now. If you feel like some Carcasonne, I'll take your ass. I have like an 86% win record at that shit. lol. Pushing around a 68% record on 3-player Catan, which isn't too shabby, but there's no leaderboards for it. I wouldn't break the top 5mil in Chess, lol... |
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Top 3 right now: Rank Name Title Country Rating Games B-Year 1 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2817 13 1969 2 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2815 13 1990 <--- 21 years old!! 3 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2808 13 1982 I am in EST, but there's always lots of people on, and I stay up late ![]() |
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learn a few easy openings and piece development and you will be kicking ass too! |
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If I ever get some time in the future I'll track you down for a game ![]()
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![]() And yeah chess is all about losing.. It's fun to wipe the board against someone a lot weaker than you, but you don't learn anything, it's just making the obvious move over and over again. Making a good player actually think is more rewarding, even if you lose. |
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Catan has a great online app you can download at playcatan.com. You'll never have a problem getting yourself a good game going there in seconds. Carcasonneon the Other hand is lacking a good online version. Xbox Live seems to be the onlY place you can get a good match of Carcasonne going. If you're a Live gamer reading this and considering Catan on Live though,d on't bother. They slaughtered it with shitty graphics, bad gameplay controls, and by only allowing 4 player games. I stick strictly to 3 player as it is a faster game and allows for people to make huge sweeping attacks out of nowhere, whereas 4 player is a long drawn out game where you can be fucked right from the start with nothing you can even do about it... |
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I used to play a lot of chess when I was younger, back then I was really good at it too. I just recently started playing again but I'm not nearly as good as I was back then. Takes a while to get back into it, I guess. I remember memorizing so many different moves when I played regularly which I've more or less have forgotten now. Downloading the PC client as we speak...
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Recommend anywhere for learning some basic Chess strategy and playing with some other newb players?
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Blows my mind how serious Chess is with people referring to games that happened decades ago, lol. Funny, because in a hundred years, people will still be refering to these games in lengthy Chess strategy discussions. Blows my mind even further when advanced players can watch another game, and know when these plays are unfolding as they are happening...
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There are certain rules that are generally true in chess, look out for tips from the masters. Here's a basic tip for a beginner...certain pieces are more useful at the beginning e.g. a knight, whereas a bishop is more useful when there's less left on the board i.e. it can target a larger number of squares
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I can play chess but i've only really played PC chess against the computer, i havent played against a human since i was at junior school
I have a dreadful stratagy too - i normally start off an a suicide run then try and be clever once the board has emptied a bit! :D
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There'll be a chess club in your town
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chess.com is pretty good. they have a strategy section and the player levels aren't trolled out with people playing at lower levels just to beat you, because that isn't very fun. The whole idea is to play someone who you think has a good chance to beat you.
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There's just so much depth to it, it's amazing that some gifted people can see things to such a level so far beyond normal.
![]() Games are usually saved in .PGN format and can be read using lots of different software. I use Chessbase products, but there's lots of free things too. The chessbase stuff is incredible.. The mega database has 4.5 million games from the 1500's to today. You can view the games, have the computer analyze, make reports, show other games from the database that started similarly, tons of things. Plus you can build an opening book from the huge database too.. So then you can see that from whatever position you're at in the game, what moves were played most often, the average rating of players that made the move, whether white or black won 55% of the time or whatever. Also their Chessbase Magazine is great, and connects with their Chessbase software, so you can see the moves played out on the board in your normal software while the player talks about it in a video in a pane. http://www.chessbase-shop.com/en/products/5888 Basically all the good engines (fritz, rybka, hiarcs, even opensource ones like stockfish) are modular brains that can be plugged into the main chessbase software. If you get any of the engines, they come with the software to play, analyze, etc. Then there's also the actual more expensive Chessbase 11, that lets you really dig into things, create reports, player dossiers, more of the database side of things. |
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Ya, it really is pretty incredible just how much depth the game has to it.
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I love chess, but I simply don't have the time anymore.
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I play regularly on ICC.
You can watch live games with grandmaster comments there. They have great training videos, it is worth the fee!
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Used to play long time ago...
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what kinda sucks about chess is that even if you play for years and you become "good", you will still be a newb, at anytime you will still be able to find 1000s of people online that you will have zero chance of beating...
(I know same thing kinda applies to any other game, but with chess it seems to be more true)
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Two best countries at chess (per head)
1st Iceland 2nd Israel
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