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I've kid of let chess spill into poker and non poker topics, and thought it would be better for a specific thread on this wonderful game. I thought if anyone had any games they played they could share them here, tell of any good sites to play chess at or just share a new PB or great win.

I've been playing chess for 8 or 9 weeks, although I played 2 or 3 games while I was a child at school I never played again because I was more into football at lunchtimes. I was just a woodpusher anyway, I never had a clue :) I play on Chessmaniac and Red Hot Pawn. Chessmaniac is a great site and if anyone wants to come play for a team called British Bulldogs theyre more than welcome ;) My rating fluctuates between 1300 and 1400 but its steadied at around 1380, but should get up to  1450 in the next fortnight or so (depends on games completed)

I know poker is the topic of this forum, but chess gives me so much pleasure, and its nice to talk to people who not only share one interest with me, but perhaps two interests :)

So then, whats your background in chess, rating, favourite openings etc?

PS FAO The Crow - dont be trying to stalk Sofia Polgar if you like Chess mate, shes not too hot these days ;)

kinboshi on RedHotPawn.

Used to play a lot of chess when I was young (from 6-11 years old).  Stopped playing when it stopped being fun and became a 'chore'.

Started playing again on RedHotPawn recently.  I'm a better player than my rating, as I play too many games at once and blunder too much.

I blunder a lot on Chessmaniac. Or try a clever sac that never works. If you want a game any time, my username is BoldmereFrenchie I think :)

I beat 2 russians earlier in the year on holiday in Bulgaria on one of those big chess board thingys,,,,It drew quite a crowd too


shame they were only 16 and about 17...

still russians...my proudest moment in chess!

apparently my dad taught me when i was three,and he ran a litle sunday club when i was 8 or 9..was fun

I don't play anymore

my last rating was 2400 i think not played for a few years

we used to have the choice at primary school on a friday (I think) afternoon of chess club or choir practice. chess won for me, have been playing a bit recently on redhotpawn but appear to be at a much worse standard than when I was at school, making too many stupid mistakes, but I'll keep working on it. same name on there as on here if anyone ever fancies a game.

I used to play as a primary school kid, entering a few competitions around Scotland.

There were a few dozen players in Scotland better than me (at my age level), whether I could have matched them if I had a good coach and applied myself I'll never know. I never really studied opening theory or anything like that, started many a game on the backfoot after an opening blunder.
 I still picked up the odd trophy here and there, and had a reputation for surprising the top players on occasion with an upset.

I entered the British championship one year and got an idea as to the different level the game was played at down South. Different kettle of fish completely, and they were all a bit wierd. It turned me off competing, and as I began secondary school I shifted my attentions away from chess to just being a normal kid.



I got back into it a year or so ago and started playing like mad on redhotpawn, and studying the game as much as I could (Yasser Serawens books are pretty kick-ass)
Gave it a rest when it started to become an obsession and was taking over my life. lol addictive personality-aments.

At my peak, I could probably give a 1700-1800 player a run for their money.
Relaistically at the moment, I'm probably a 1500 player or thereabouts. (redhotpawn ratings)

We had a wee stable on redhotpawn called "check or bet". Tinsel town, kinboshi, Swordpoker and myslelf (maybe a couple of others, I forget... sorry)


I want to study poker instead. The way I was playing SnGs 2004-2007 was very much like the way I played chess as a kid. Without studying ICM too much, without studying opening theory too much. Without reviewing my moves, without reviewing my hand histories.
Knowing a basic amount and just cracking on with it, resultantly under-achieving.

Can't change what has gone before but I can change the future.

I used to work for the British Chess Federation and I can confirm that this assessment fits in with what I remember.

I had the British Chess Federation library at my disposal, a fantastic resource -  ::) I may not have made the best use of it.

The problem is that chess theory is immensely boring - so I mainly just read the history books.

Loved the game as a primary school kid. Stopped playing when I went to secondary school as it wasn't really played there. Played a few years ago at work, and was way out of practice. People were discussing opening strategies etc.
I have never used any of these, still don't know any of them.

Why the feck arent you playing chess then? Do you make a living from poker? Dumb question i guess, only 100 off being a GM!!! Money in poker or chess id choose poker if I was good enough. I presume u make shed loads from the poker ;)

That is my dream, to become a Grand Master, and I want to ork as hard as I can to get there. Poker is a decent game and I can beat donks, but there are far too many good players to make poker attractive for me. That is not to say that chess is easy in comparison because its probably harder, but it is a gae that suits someone like me better who likes to study relentlessly. I can study 6 different variations of the Winawer Poisoned pawn Variation and enjoy doing so (geeeeeeek!) but studying hand history and reading poker mags doesnt stimulate much thought or interest no more.

Poker is a game where I felt I should get instant reward because i was better than than the local B&M game. That doesnt transfer to Online. Where as chess is tough to beat so you work hard and know if u do well enough then 20 yrs down the line you can be winning titles and possibly attain the distinction of being a Grandmaster :)

Hmmm common theme here i used to play for my primary school all the way through the Juniors and entered a few county comps for my age group finishing in the top 10ish from memory. My dad taught me and we played alot when i was young.

By the time i get to secondary school, i was playing football, cricket for junior clubs as well as school. So chess got shelved for these slightly cooler activitites. Have played very occasionally since, i may join one of these online sites and give it a whirl.

Is it possible to get a blonde league going? Though i will probably get killed , by the sounds of it.

that'd be an idea, especially the killing longy bit obv. anyone know a site you can do it on. I know it's a prob on redhotpawn as everyone needs to be a paying subscriber to play in any tournaments/leagues

I'm rubbish at chess.  I've tried loads but I keep losing.  My rating is only about 900 atm.  I did beat Kinboshi once to level the series 1-1.  I should have quit then as he went on to own me.

I saw one father berating his 12 year old kid like the kid had gone joy riding in the family saloon or something. The poor guy had just made a mistake in a game turning a won position into a draw.

I remeber thinking if this is what it takes, fuck that.

You could organise the league on a thread and just play the games as a non paid RHP member.

Is chess an art or a science ?

I've always thought of it in it's purest form as an artform.

But the modern successfull players seem to treat it as a science.

Where in this world of lies, damn lies and statistics, is the truth ?

Tank - I played in the Under-8 British Championships in London back in 1982 (so I guess that proves your last point there!).

The tournament was a two-day affair and each player had to play 9 games.  A point for a win, 1/2 for a draw and nothing for a loss.

Each round you were matched against someone who was doing as well (or badly) as you.  So if you won your first game, you'd play someone else who won theirs.

I won my first 3 games, and so was doing well.  In the fourth round I was drawn against the youngest player in the field (he was 6 whilst the rest of us were 7).  He was the 'star' of the tournament and the only one at the time who had an 'adult' BCF-rating.  Demis Hassabis was his name.  My Dad likes to remind me of how excited and agitated I was when I found out who I was playing.  I went and beat him.  He was distraught, I was ecstatic, as was my Dad.  

Anyway, after 6 games I have won all my games.  I'm leading the tournament as there aren't any others who have 100% - two players had drawn their 6-round game and so they were both on 5 and a half.

In round 7 I was drawn against Dharshan Kumaran (one of the players on 5 and a half).  I didn't know it at the time, but he was a bit special as a chess player.  He destroyed me in that game, and my game fell apart and I went on to lose the next two games as well.  I finished 4th.  I blew it, and I could and should have won at least one of the remaining two games.

Anyway, the two players I mentioned went on to do pretty well for themselves.   Kumaran went on to be the World U21 World Champion, is now a Grand Master as well as a neuro-scientist.  

Hassabis has gone on to achieve a hell of a lot, creating the computer game 'Theme Park' at the age of 17 being one of them.  A fully-fledged genius: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis

Interestingly, he's moved into neuro-science as well now, and doing some searches on google, it seems as though he's co-authored several papers with Kumaran.  

good call. think you can have 6 games running as a non subscriber so should be easy enough

kinboshi - that's a pretty cool story.

I think it was the under 12's I played. I got a  total of 1 point from two draws and finished very near the bottom.

If u all signed to chess maniac setting a tournament is easy enough on there. You play 'swiss tournaments' where you get paired off randomly then player a winner (if u win) or a loser(if you lose) in the next round.

Up to you guys really I'll do whatever ;)

I think it was thetank who mentioned somebody killing their 8 yr olds ears? There is a little kid at our chess club called leo. Only 9 or 10, and has an ECF rating of 90, so not the most gifted but VERY good for his age. His Dad is really extreme with him, as he'll play a league game in the week, and his dad will keep him up till the early hours of the morning working out his game and where he went wrong etc! The kid has primary School in the morning ffs!

Thats a really cool story Kinboshi :) Shame you didnt take the thing down then man. Chess is ridiculously tough, especially where played over two days. How can you play a game when all you think about is a dumb blunder made in the last game?

I love chess, I'm not very good at it and didnt really play as a kid.  My mum taught me but was useless and being the 'poor winner' i am she soon stopped playing me.  I started playing again when i went to my girlfriends parents house for christmas, he grandad gave me a real lesson, i was sick as he beat me with ease.  I started playing a few guys at work then joined gameknot.com, i'm still not very good but got my own back on the missus' grandad who now refuses to play me as well!

Whilst everybody on here seems a much higher standard than me i would be happy to join any league set up.

If you wanna register at Chessmaniac let me know your username and we can set something up

done - sovietsong on chessmaniac, fancy a game?

I'll register on chessmaniac (think I might already have an account on there from ages ago).  The Swiss tournament idea sounds like a laugh.

Talking about kids playing chess and the pressure from parents - there was lots of that when I played.  I had a chess coach when I was 7.  His name was John Bogovic, and worked at the steel works in Corby until he retired, and he used to run a chess club that I went to.  As I had a talent for the game, he focused his coaching on me another boy who was a few years older than me.  He died when I was about 15 (some years after I'd stopped playing).  I didn't realise what a brilliant coach he was until I was a lot older.  It's a shame I could never thank him for what he did.  

I used to read chess books, play through games against myself in the middle of the night.  It wasn't a chore for me, as it was 'fun'.  My Dad used to take me all over the country to tournaments.  I played board 1 for my county U12 team and so I played in the inter-county events as well as tournaments that I entered as an individual.  My Dad had taught me how to play when I was 3 years old, and was obviously proud that I'd taken to the game and was doing well.  He never forced me to play though.

When I was about 12 or 13, the game no longer was fun for me.  I had to practice several hours a day to keep up with the other players, and I was discovering other things - such as karate and more importantly, girls.  I told my Dad that I didn't want to play any more.  I think he was disappointed that I didn't continue playing, but he never once 'made' me play after I'd said I wanted to give it up.

There were other players though who were 'forced' to play by their parents.  As Tighty has mentioned in his diary thread about other sports, it was often the case that parents were fulfilling their dreams of playing chess at the top level through their children.

I'm on there as kinboshi (how inventive of me), same name on RedHotPawn.  Send me a challenge if you fancy a game.

I'm in as gatso

get a few more and we can get this tourney running

Im registered as Longy11.

Challenge sent, feel free to give me pointers throughout!!  Last time we played you gave me a hiding!

Thee Baron if anyone wants easy pickings.

Sorry my username is for RHP

sigh, I'm so thick. have accepted challenge from soviet, now how do I actually get to the game?

I accepted and the table came up. I have my made my first move, soviet is trying to outpsych me by delaying his reply imo.

Chess the new online poker?

so do I need to allow popups?

lol i'm on it mate, i think you need to 'refresh'

i go to mystuff at the top of the page then my games, you can also click to the next game after you have made a move just above the board if you have a few games on the go!

Yeah it only took me 7 mins to work it out, im quick me.

the site looks all over the shop to start with, but seems ok now i know where i am!

funny i dont put much thought into my opening moves, i think that goes some way into explaining why i have a rating of 1150 on gameknot.

Just press play imo,next to Soviets name i think.

A few challenges coming from Bfrench501 :P

this is pretty good, shame its past my bed time, lol

ffs, 15 minutes to find the play button.

5 of them spent trying to make a move on what turns out to be a replayer.

got it sussed now though

gl mate.

I get the impression im going to be a lot worse at multitabling chess.

u have 14 days to make a move ;)

but i want to play to the death!!

If you want a quick game tomorrow lol then put a post here. I'll look you up I play chess about 8 or 9 hours a day so I may see you at some point

8 or 9 hours a day, pretty solid!  recreational?

[ ] Loves the Sicilian defence

[ ] knows what the Sicilian defence is

Its a blacks opening response when white plays pawn to the e4 square. Black responds by moving the pawn on c7 to c5. This causes an imbalance and provides suitable counterplay opportunities later in the game. Dont worry bout that shizzle just move your pieces :P

well, Palermo currently have Balzaretti, Carrozzieri, Bovo and Cassani across the back 4

[X] Knows what the Sicilian defence is
[ ] Can play the Sicilian defence well

lol, a few people have done that to me on gameknot, kinda gets my goat but i dont know why!

[ ] will pwn chess by the end of the week

FYP :)

[  ] knew what the sicilian defence was 10 minutes ago
[X] used it 10 minutes ago against fugly just cos kin used it against me
[X] knows what it is now
[  ] will play it well

get yerself on chessmaniac too imo for this tournament we're gonna play

is there a name for this set of moves?  Hope i write it right!

e4         e5
Kc3       Qd4
g3        Qxe4

[ ] Hates using [ ]

FYP

Re-FYP'd ;)

SIGH !!

I was just about to launch into my reasons for liking a bit of extra mature cheddar and a fondness for a bit of red leicester on toast with just a dash of worcester sauce ... then I realised it said CHESS ... FML !

Colchester Kev on life tilt

[X] Depositing on Blonde right now

PS if it is a thread on cheese that you want I can start a KISS thread or one on Iron Maiden :P

lol probs got that one wrong then. and yes i do make a living from poker

im up for a little comp tho.

I don't think that entirely makes sense.

white move   black move
white move   black move
white move   black move

+any move with a pawn is just the board coord (unless 2 pawns could move into the same spot)
any other piece use it's initial.

on the second line black couldn't move Queen to D4 for example, as surely there's a pawn on D7 in it's way?

IM?

Cheers,

12bb (2100 on a good day, and that was a long time ago, currently 1800 ish  >:(

'twould seem Trigg is not an international chess master after all. :(

Tank!

You are to blame for me infesting the local chess scene after a break of (nearly) two decades.

Now I'm playing chess instead of poker.  Most of the time.

Cheers,

12bb

I'm awfully sorry about that.

How's your game doing? It was very strong when last we played, I got schooled.

I'd be interested in playing a tourney although i'm rubbish will be fun

Hi,

Does this Chess site have any chess ladies ?

I looked up redhotporn on Google but got a nasty shock

she looked a bit Sicilian , but I dont think thats her favorite game

Sofia looks OK

wtf are you on?

Trill overdose IMO.

I'm up for a bit of chess banter.

Played maybe twice when i was little so i know the rules. That's about it. Sicilian defence is a big whoooosh.

got destroyed. Maybe chess isn't for me.

If anyone wants a game i'm up for taking a free lesson

I'll have a crack. start a game against gatso on either redhotpawn or chessmaniac

It's ready to go, i think

yeah we're off. can't help feeling I'm being scammed though, you've set it up with a 3 day move period knowing we're off to blondebash. if you claim a timeout win while I'm there I'll cry

LOL I didn't now how to set it up lol.How long will a game take just i got to go out at 7 and hoped we'd finish today. ;sleep; ;)

I'm going out in a couple of hours so we might get it done

I'm guna go and have a shower while you decide your next move.

Sorry but Sofia Polgar does not look nice in that pic (I assume thats her).

Alexandria Kosteniuk FTMFW! www.tubechess.com you can check out videos of her there shes not bad ;)

anyone fancy a game now?

I'm just schooling mondatoo on rhp but probs calling it a night when we finish. I'll msg him to see if he wants to play you though

I will play but it'll have to be a quick game i'm crap so you will beat me quickly lol mondatoo on rhp if you want a game still

hi used to play alot a couple of yrs back..Best moment won the Individual u125 derbyshire championship. Then started playing on internet chess club. A few draws in simuls against im. By the way this site is best around for playing gm and im.
The U1600 team had the best performance of all. In spite of losing 5(!) games by forfeit they still made it to the playoffs, not least thanks to a monster 8-0 performance from assistant captain pokerram. Lionskins and nanning also had good performances to clinch the playoff spot. The quarter final was won quite easily, however just as everything was looking good (1½-½ up after 2 games) they lost the last 2 games and the match. A great pity.
The U1800 team had a mediocre performance, though they did have playoff-chanced right up to the last round.
The last paragraph was my best performance in the 4545 team comp on site.
Alas i packed in playing when the site found out a couple of the players who beat me had been using computors. Although be fair to the site they weed them out quite effectively. Not played for about 18 mths now. Also on internet chess club there is some very good poker players who do nothing else but talk poker in their poker chat . Masquarade on stars being one of the better players.

Playing against computers, or even unknowingly against other strong players (i.e. someone plays against two strong players, black on one board, white on the other and copies the moves of this opponents  - so effectively playing the same game from each side) is a problem with internet chess. 

No one would think that playing me though, computers don't blunder like I do.

Oh, and if anyone wants a game, just challenge me on RedHotPawn - kinboshi is my username on there (surprisingly).

have you seen the Derren Brown episode Kin where he plays 8 grand masters simultaneously?

No, does he cheat?

I remember a Hercule Poirot story where someone plays two Grand Masters on a train in separate carriages and gets a draw in both.  They were essentially playing each other, but good old Hercule sussed it.

Correction its actually 9...  He sits them in a sort of hexagon shape, so even though there is panels in front of each opponent, they are essentially opposite another player. He then remembers the moves from each player, then when he gets around to the 'opposite' player, plays that move, so really its a memory thing rather than chess... But he does beat 1 fair and square essentially, because obviously he can only pair '4 v 4'...

Dont think ive explained that very well...

IIRC this is indeed the trick that Derren Brown was doing - just on a bigger scale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evZmpsl3jI0

You think he'd beat a Grand Master fair and square?

watch the clip, i think its a GM, he beats him somehow...

Not fairly through outplaying him at chess I'd be willing to bet your bollocks on.

I'm shocked that none of the chess players figured out that he wasn't actually playing his own moves!

One of the main skills of a magician/illusionist is misdirection - so people don't notice what you're really doing.

That's where his skill lies.

anyone know how he beat no. 9?

;nemesis;

Number of options - hypnotism, the player lost on purpose (he paid him off), he wasn't a grand master, etc.  Same way he does his other tricks.

Coz he was crap and derren whipped his ass

no, he was the worst but wasn't crap. and he says something about having played a gm before and db being as good/better doesn't he?

He said that just to make himself look good.I woulda beat his ass.SShhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Think the solution is simple.

He could have mirrored one of the better gms game against two opponents rather than one.

Wahtever way he did it, amazing memory...

that would only work if both oppos played identical moves which they wouldn't

It always is with him.  He's very clever at clouding the obvious.

It was pretty impressive

so you're saying he hollowed out the chess dude and put a trained dwarf inside?

Derren said that he was shit before they started so it obviously wasn't down to his own chess skills.I'm more confused how he did the number thing ?

Look how he forcefully takes the paper from the GM but leaves the envelope with him. He has a mistake in there to make it look real.

FOR THOSE INTERESTED - Im going to set up a tournament at around 3pm called Blondes have more fun. It will be a 10 man Swiss tournament. There will most likely be non members of the forum join and I cant stop them, but keep an eye on the chessmaniac site after 3pm and register as quick as you can if you want to play.

Also if any of the brits are interested in joing a chess team online you can join the British Bulldogs if you so wish ;)

Would play, but will be travelling down to Luton this afternoon for the bash.

need  5 games to get a rating to join tourney

Ah right....never thought about BB7 nor the rating games thing. Ill leave it for a little bit then :)

just purchased some new books and other chess things today for about £100

lessons in chess strategy by GM Valeri Baim
English Opening by IM Maurizio Tirabassi
Analyse to win - visualising victory by Byron Jacobs
Winning with the Kalashnikov by GM Neil McDonald
The classical Sicilian by GM Alex Yermolinsky
Batsfords book of openings by Nick De Firmian
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master by Jeremy Silman
Pawns power in chess by Hans Kmoch
The Art of the middlegame by Paul Keres
Brand new copy of Fritz 11
DVD of Game Over: Kasparov and the machine

Amazon FTMFW!

Chess information overload!

Essential stuff to look through though ;)

I was the four time running chess champion during my primary school years, and started playing when I was young, like three or something ridiculous. Haven't played now for -years-. So rusty it's horrible.

If ur new to chess baz play e4 openings first . u will learn the basics of attack and tactics much quicker

Hi mate, e4 is pretty much what I play anyway. I either play the scotch opening, ruy lopez or max lange attack (instead of 3. Bb5 it's 3. Bc4 attacking f7). As black I play French defence or the Sicilian. But when someone plays c4 or some quirky opening I get a little stuck. So at least if I know what I'm against I can try to take them off course. I know the things such as double attacks, forks, windmills, pins etc.

Do you play any gambits? I like Danish gambit on e4.

I have been reading up a little on openings, I've played a few Blitz games and am finding myself in a much stronger position in the middle game for my 'work'.  I really struggle when playing as Black though, does anybody have any advice on good/simple black defence as i've tried a few such as the Sicilian and always seem to end up in a mess! 

Obviously i'm pretty green when it comes to chess but if anybody could provide a few pointers that would be great.

keeping it simple with e5 in reply leads to some open attacking lines for both sides and good fun blitz games.

petrov very solid e4,e5, nf3,nf6 just dont fall into nxp nxp qe2 nf6 game over.

I never play the Ruy Lopez (the most common e4, e5 opening).

White I play d4.
Black I play c5.

I have no idea what any of you are talking about. I just play what seems like a good idea at the time

RIP Thread :(