Chess

[unclehobart]

Do you play? How would you rate yourself? Do you have a pet strategy? Are you a patient hunter... an insane attacker? When was the last time you played?

 

[Professur]

I play chess. Just not very well. To be perfectly honest, I totally suck.

Haven't played since highschool, but I've got a beautiful marble set that a friend brought back from Mexico. All hand carved.

 

[Dave]

rarely
well below rank amature
no
insane attacker
years ago

 

[unclehobart]

I play a few times a year. I don't get any real practice and all of my games are against people just learning or against my uncle who can destroy at will. I'm a practiced amateur. I like to use a feathered pawn crawl and rely heavily on my bishops to slide between the cracks. I tend to leave my knights as a center controlling defense and just be patient and wait for my opponent to make a mistake. I last played about a month ago.

 

[Squiggy]

I used to play a fair game....Haven't played in years though.

 

[Gonz]

I play chess. Just not very well. To be perfectly honest, I totally suck.

Me too. The worst part is I can't find anyone who's not gonna kill me just to watch me die to play.

 

[Nixy]

I know how to play. I am also VERY bad though. I think it is because i don't take the time to think ahead I just move whatever isn't gonna lose me a piece in the next move of my opponent. Then when i DO try to think ahead I only have one plan that is based on my opponent making like 4 or 5 moves the same as i want and if he/she does something different I am screwed

 

[flavio]

I'm fairly decent. I just picked up a cheap Chess game for the GameBoy and have playing the computer alot.

 

[Professur]

That's a lot less embarassing than the way I learned to play.

 

[HeXp£Øi±]

Can't play worth a damn. Terrible short term memory.

 

[PT]

I played alot when I was younger, am in the process of teaching the kids how to play now, and it's great, a couple of them are getting pretty good, beat me about 70% of the time, but the other 4 make me feel good about myself.

btw, it's the 9yo and the 12 yo that beat me. 9 yo is in the accelerated program, 12 yo is just conniving.

 

[lightstorm]

I play from time to time . . . maybe 1400 rating

 

[Jeslek]

My elo is about 1,900.

 

[flavio]

That's a lot less embarassing than the way I learned to play.

I've been playing since I was about 6-7 yrs old. Used to play my dad once a week. I hadn't played in a year or so until I got this GameBoy game though.

 

[unclehobart]

My elo is about 1,900.

Youre saying that youre just 100 points outside of being considered a candidte for masters?

 

[Professur]

Kissing boys must leave him a lot of free social time to practice.

 

[unclehobart]

Not with a game shelf as stuffed as his is. Achieving such a strong rating requires lots of study and practice. Hes either lucky, a natural, lying about how he spends his free time, or lying about his rating... or a combination of it all. Lucky naturals just piss me off.

 

[Jeslek]

Master level is 2,200, a very, very long shot, which I will probably not reach. 1,800 is the 78th percentile, 1,900 is the 85th. 2,000 is the 95th, and 2,200 is the 99th.

I've been playing since I was 4. When in school, I used to play all the time in competitions. I was the best player in my school (don't want to brag, but it is the truth).

Not with a game shelf as stuffed as his is.

Thats my brother's for most part I haven't touched a computer game in weeks. I used to play a fair bit but not anymore.

 

[freako104]

not in a long time
no

below average

insane but patient more of the hunter than attacker

a couple of semesters ago on campus before teh chess club broke up

 

[HomeLAN]

Amatuer, used to be decent, but haven't kept at it and have lost most of my skills. Much more of a patient plotter, using a major defensive setup as a backdrop for sniping offensive tactics.