Chess With Your Power 2.0 - IT BEGINS

[OlimarFan]

Well maybe this one game. You kicked my butt in all the others. Thanks though!

Hey, if you ever show our games to your chess coach, share some of his thoughts if you can

lol good game!

I shall...if he BOTHERS to listen to me for once.

 

[ru5514n]

*Minor bump*

Any of you guys following the situation with the world championship? Anand wants to postpone the match because he's stranded in Germany (flights can't take off because of the ash in the skies from the volcano eruption in Iceland), and Topalov wants the match to start on time. So far, FIDE has not ruled in either GM's favor yet.

I personally think Anand should get his way here, because it's a situation that is out of his control.

 

[cemo]

Ah no, I hadn't heard about that. I'd side with Anand on this one, but shouldn't there be another way to get to where he needs to?


Also, looks like I'm going to miss out on the second round by 0.5 points on the tiebreak. daaaang.
and it's because of this guy drawing a won game, too. ):

 

[OlimarFan]

*Minor bump*

Any of you guys following the situation with the world championship? Anand wants to postpone the match because he's stranded in Germany (flights can't take off because of the ash in the skies from the volcano eruption in Iceland), and Topalov wants the match to start on time. So far, FIDE has not ruled in either GM's favor yet.

I personally think Anand should get his way here, because it's a situation that is out of his control.

Unfortunately, FIDE has ruled in Topalov's favor

Come on people...give Annad a break!

 

[~N9NE~]

I'm back guys.

Sucks for Anand. When do they play?

 

[ru5514n]

Hooray, N9NE's back!

They postponed the match by one day. Game 1 will take place this Saturday.

I hope Anand wins.

 

[Scabe]

So a while ago I saw this thread but didn't register on chess.com and forgot about chess. Then, in a turn of strange events, I started getting into chess again after playing like Chessmaster on DS, I think it's called that? Anyways I wanted to find a good site that let's you play chess, so I found chess.com.

It's an alright site, it's just lame that you have to pay for membership to get like all the simple features. Does anyone know of any better chess sites?

And has anyone done the chess online thing? I get the feeling games would go forever.

 

[ru5514n]

Chess.com's all right. A basic (free) membership is enough for me to enjoy the site. A premium membership usually only gets you some superfluous and unnecessary features.

As for online chess, it doesn't usually take forever, the longest game I ever had on there lasted about 2 months, but that's because the guy moved about once in three days. Most games get done in 1-3 weeks. If that's still too slow, you can play Live Chess.

Internet Chess Club is the best site in terms of competition; even Grandmasters play over there pretty often. You'll need to pay for even the basic membership, though. Somebody mentioned chesscube.com recently; I've never been there, but I hear it's a good site.

 

[OlimarFan]

Chess.com's all right. A basic (free) membership is enough for me to enjoy the site. A premium membership usually only gets you some superfluous and unnecessary features.

As for online chess, it doesn't usually take forever, the longest game I ever had on there lasted about 2 months, but that's because the guy moved about once in three days. Most games get done in 1-3 weeks. If that's still too slow, you can play Live Chess.

Internet Chess Club is the best site in terms of competition; even Grandmasters play over there pretty often. You'll need to pay for even the basic membership, though. Somebody mentioned chesscube.com recently; I've never been there, but I hear it's a good site.

Gameknot's not bad also
I like chess.com, but I enjoy the LIVE Chess - especially 2 min games.

 

[Scabe]

I couldn't handle a 5 minute game. I tried one and made too many mistakes trying to think so fast >_<

Also in the LIVE chess, they had like a small tourney where I got slaughtered.

...Good times

 

[ru5514n]

I couldn't handle a 5 minute game. I tried one and made too many mistakes trying to think so fast >_<

Also in the LIVE chess, they had like a small tourney where I got slaughtered.

...Good times

In live, you could play with 10-15 minutes, and you can have a small time increase after every move if you wish.

Also I thought you couldn't have tournaments in live chess

 

[Scabe]

Well we were just talking in the main chat and someone wanted to have a tourney, so we got some numbers and had a private group chat. It was good fun.

 

[~N9NE~]

Live anyone?

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Wait. *Dropped off face of thread for like forever*

Who won the tourney?

-Terywj

 

[Scabe]

It wasn't anything big or important also I forgot the peoples names someone should play some live chess with me now!

 

[OlimarFan]

Wait. *Dropped off face of thread for like forever*

Who won the tourney?

-Terywj

It's still going on between myself and enigmaticcam - but it's so informal now...I think we were talking about SoulSilver

 

[EnigmaticCam]

My attempts at distracting you have clearly failed.

 

[OlimarFan]

My attempts at distracting you have clearly failed.

You must be really busy now - I hardly see you on chess.com!

 

[EnigmaticCam]

Yeah, I've got the second round of the chess.com tournament coming up, and when it finally arrives, I want to be ready for it. And by ready, that means not having saturated my time with so much chess that it's less play and more work to think about my moves. So I'm taking it easy until then, lol.

 

[cemo]

i timed out 2 games with... OTB? and feel bad. i'll join the next smashboards tournament but until then i don't really have time to pursue the ivory tower.

 

[~N9NE~]

This thread died lol. Time for some resurrection.

Live/correspondence anyone?

New username on chess.com is Sleepers. I don't know why I chose that name, I might get a new account lol.

 

[ru5514n]

I could play correspondence if you want, I won't have time for live until later in the evening.

 

[~N9NE~]

3 days/move ok?

 

[ru5514n]

Sure. May not be able to accept the challenge right now though, I'm about to leave.

 

[Rappster]

i'm just stumbled on this thread and am free for chess for the next two hours or so.
blitz anybody?

 

[~N9NE~]

I'm up for blitz, what's your username?

 

[ru5514n]

This thread is about to die... again.

When's the next tourney (if there is one)?

 

[OlimarFan]

[Apologies for bump]

I guess the next tourney will start and engi and I finish our game. Sorry folks

P.S. Very active on chess.com and gameknot.com, especially the former in LIVE. LIVE is almost as good as OTB

 

[KoRoBeNiKi]

Since the live chess.com has improved, I think I should post a live chess tournament (I guess a 30 min game per side with 0 second delay or 25+5). Matches will be unrated but it will be easy to post

Simply because:
1. It gives you time to space matches
2. Many people on chess.com can't play 2 tournaments at once
3. It is easier to post results.

If anyone else is into this, Ill make a touurney.

need 3 more people interested. ill also post it on a separate topic.

 

[Terywj [태리]]

I'm up for anything with chess and a tournament. Count me in.

 

[~N9NE~]

I'd be up for a live chess tournament. Don't think there's a need for another topic.