Chess
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@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
My 8 year old has joined the chess club at school.
....and he beat me.
I'm equally proud ( of him ) and ashamed ( of myself )
I only ever beat my father at chess once. I was about 12. After I beat him he refused to ever play me again. To be fair to him, I was quite a good player in those days.
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@damo said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
My 8 year old has joined the chess club at school.
....and he beat me.
I'm equally proud ( of him ) and ashamed ( of myself )
I only ever beat my father at chess once. I was about 12. After I beat him he refused to ever play me again. To be fair to him, I was quite a good player in those days.
I downloaded one of those chess apps on my phone and annoyingly the levels progress from piss easy to impossible in one step so I pretty much gave up. The computer wasted me easily every time.
It is a great game though, the length and breadth of the moves that the top guys have is just staggering.
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@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@damo said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
My 8 year old has joined the chess club at school.
....and he beat me.
I'm equally proud ( of him ) and ashamed ( of myself )
I only ever beat my father at chess once. I was about 12. After I beat him he refused to ever play me again. To be fair to him, I was quite a good player in those days.
I downloaded one of those chess apps on my phone and annoyingly the levels progress from piss easy to impossible in one step so I pretty much gave up. The computer wasted me easily every time.
It is a great game though, the length and breadth of the moves that the top guys have is just staggering.
Playing other people is much better than playing a computer. It is hard for a computer to play like a realistic beginner.
There are tonnes of live player chess games online that you could play if you desired.
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@damo said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@damo said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
My 8 year old has joined the chess club at school.
....and he beat me.
I'm equally proud ( of him ) and ashamed ( of myself )
I only ever beat my father at chess once. I was about 12. After I beat him he refused to ever play me again. To be fair to him, I was quite a good player in those days.
I downloaded one of those chess apps on my phone and annoyingly the levels progress from piss easy to impossible in one step so I pretty much gave up. The computer wasted me easily every time.
It is a great game though, the length and breadth of the moves that the top guys have is just staggering.
Playing other people is much better than playing a computer. It is hard for a computer to play like a realistic beginner.
There are tonnes of live player chess games online that you could play if you desired.
Yeah wouldn't mind getting back into it ( if only to beat my son haahaha )
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@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@damo said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@damo said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
My 8 year old has joined the chess club at school.
....and he beat me.
I'm equally proud ( of him ) and ashamed ( of myself )
I only ever beat my father at chess once. I was about 12. After I beat him he refused to ever play me again. To be fair to him, I was quite a good player in those days.
I downloaded one of those chess apps on my phone and annoyingly the levels progress from piss easy to impossible in one step so I pretty much gave up. The computer wasted me easily every time.
It is a great game though, the length and breadth of the moves that the top guys have is just staggering.
Playing other people is much better than playing a computer. It is hard for a computer to play like a realistic beginner.
There are tonnes of live player chess games online that you could play if you desired.
Yeah wouldn't mind getting back into it ( if only to beat my son haahaha )
Started playing a bit with my boy recently, but it's hard work after a day at work.
This guy (John Bartholemew) has some really good tips and introductions fo rpeople. Well worth a watch.
John Bartholomew
Chess Master, Entrepreneur, YouTuber, ex Chessable Co-Founder. Only through our inevitable blunders shall we pave the road to mastery. Only through our inevitable blunders shall we pave the road to mastery.
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@frank said in World Chess Championship 2018:
Woody Harrelson, the good, old raw food vegan yoga practicing Southern boy, whose estranged father was a hit-man.
I'm betting that's not the first 'joke' Woody's had that just goes CLAAANG!!!!
disclaimer: I do the same thing from time to time
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@frank said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I played in the English School Championship when I was 14. I remember playing a 9 year old (when most people were 17-18 and being completely psyched out that he must a child prodigy (he was). He played chess while holing a teddy bear he was attached to. He beat me, but I played bad chess. The teddy bear freaked me out.
This may be the best post of the year! It really is brilliant.
It rivals one of @mariner4life posts on something which I forget now. But I do remember laughing loudly.
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@frank said in World Chess Championship 2018:
So I googled the teddy bear guy. Turns out he is now indeed a chess wizard.
Adam Hunt. Now has a rating of "International Master" FIDE rating 2401.
He was born in 1980, so was 9 at the time I played him.His gingerness is quite striking.
Good work Frank, this story is the Chess equivalent of being fended/trampled/stepped/smashed by ( insert famous Rugby player name here ) at college
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I made the semi finals of a local chess comp one time - I don't know how, still to this day I really don't know the tactics of chess. I came up against private schoolboys in the early rounds and was beaten by a little Maori kid two years younger than me who went to a school in my era that was crazy good at chess.
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@nepia said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I made the semi finals of a local chess comp one time - I don't know how, still to this day I really don't know the tactics of chess. I came up against private schoolboys in the early rounds and was beaten by a little Maori kid two years younger than me who went to a school in my era that was crazy good at chess.
Was there no spacies at the FnC shop in the Bay ?
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@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@nepia said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I made the semi finals of a local chess comp one time - I don't know how, still to this day I really don't know the tactics of chess. I came up against private schoolboys in the early rounds and was beaten by a little Maori kid two years younger than me who went to a school in my era that was crazy good at chess.
Was there no spacies at the FnC shop in the Bay ?
You don't risk going to the FnC in our hood.
Nah, one of the primary schools in the hood just focused on chess as their before and after school activity so they played it all the time and kicked butt.
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@nepia said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@mn5 said in World Chess Championship 2018:
@nepia said in World Chess Championship 2018:
I made the semi finals of a local chess comp one time - I don't know how, still to this day I really don't know the tactics of chess. I came up against private schoolboys in the early rounds and was beaten by a little Maori kid two years younger than me who went to a school in my era that was crazy good at chess.
Was there no spacies at the FnC shop in the Bay ?
You don't risk going to the FnC in our hood.
Nah, one of the primary schools in the hood just focused on chess as their before and after school activity so they played it all the time and kicked butt.
True. You'd go in and your car would be on blocks before they'd even battered your fish
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Coincidentally, I'm just re-reading "Bobby Fischer goes to war".
The book reckons that when Spassky became world champion he was living in a one room apartment with his wife, his mother, his sister and his brother - that was 14 sq metres. Once he was world champion he was eligible for an upgrade to a two bedroom 28 sq metre "palace"!
Solution to the housing crisis right there!
Vote Communist Party!
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@chris-b said in World Chess Championship 2018:
Coincidentally, I'm just re-reading "Bobby Fischer goes to war".
The book reckons that when Spassky became world champion he was living in a one room apartment with his wife, his mother, his sister and his brother - that was 14 sq metres. Once he was world champion he was eligible for an upgrade to a two bedroom 28 sq metre "palace"!
Solution to the housing crisis right there!
Vote Communist Party!
Chris - if you can, see if you can get a copy of the book Bobby Fischer vs the rest of the world.
it came out in 1974 and was written by a journalist Brad Darrach. Darrach was a writer for Life magazine and had some access to Fischer's inner circle during 1972 when Fischer took the title from Spassky.
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That John Bartholomew dude is great. Am enjoying the 30 minute summaries of each game.
