Any Chess Players On Here?

[mikethompson]

My friend just turned my on to an online chess site, and we've had an online game going for a few days. Seems like a nice contemplative activity that would pair well with a pipe.

As for the picture, it is supposedly one of Stalin's pipes, showing him playing chess with FDR.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I love chess, although I am no master player. I used to love friendly games in coffeehouses back in college. I've tried to understand books on chess, but to me it is like trying to teach myself to speak and understand the Russian language with a book... written in Russian.

 

[Fiddlepiper]

I really enjoy playing chess. But I am not particularly good at it.

Definitely sounds like it would partner perfectly with chess although not a blitz game. ?

Forum chess league? Players must be smoking a pipe whilst playing and the pipe must be filled with esoteric tobaccos.

 

[Kottan]

I play on chess.com but my Elo istn' that high. Mostly 1 hour games.

 

[NomadOrb]

I hop on Lichess when I have downtime at work. I'm not very good, but I have a good time blundering my way through.

 

[mikethompson]

I love chess, although I am no master player

I think you can be bad at something and still enjoy it. Chess may be one of those things.

I play on chess.com

As am I! If you ever want to start a game, give me an IM

blundering my way through.

Chess.com keeps track of your mistakes and blunders. Its eye opening to say the least.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I think you can be bad at something and still enjoy it. Chess may be one of those things.

DON"T BRING SEX INTO THIS!!

 

[kg.legat0]

I play on lichess here and there. I am pretty crappy at it but would love to dig deeper into the game ...definitely pairs well with a pipe unless you get mad and start choochin' too fast

 

[mikethompson]

Ha! That's low lying fruit

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ha! That's low lying fruit

That's what she said.

 

[mso489]

Never played chess enough to be competent at it. I did beat my late wife in a poolside game on a miniature board in about six moves. I never decided if she didn't want to play and knew how to end the game, or if I struck a moment of talent. Likely the former. I had a friend at work, occasional lunch partner, who was a chess master in his 20's and 30's, and had "retired" to concentrate on the game "Go," another really subtle multi-layered competition. This guy was also very verbal, so that's why we had a good time yakking. We'd get some line of jokes going and couldn't quit. He had/has an interesting contrarian streak that sometimes rubbed colleagues wrong, but we got along well. He has a doctorate in biophysics but worked as a technical editor.

 

[telescopes]

I play chess the same way I play golf - I don't keep score.

There are very few people who enjoy playing golf with me. When I play, I always buy a fresh pack of balls and tees knowing I'll use most of them. When we get back to the club house, I'm happily smoking cigars and ordering Manhattans while they're trying to talk about what they needed to do better or why they didn't score the way they usually do.

 

[telescopes]

When I play chess, I enjoy making moves no one can anticipate. For me, the enjoyment comes watching my opponent try to beat me while trying to feel like they actually won.

 

[telescopes]

When I worked in North Saint Louis, a quasi gangster I knew well challenged a local chess champion who was a bit of an arrogant asshole to a game of chess, They met at the park to play. A teacher who worked at our school went to see the match. The gangster put his gun on the table halfway through the game and started reciting the addresses of relatives of the chess champion before the champion made each move. Needless to say. he won the game. I think about that story a lot. When someone tells me they are a champion or that such and such is a champion, it gives me pause to wonder just who or what a champion is.

 

[Servant King]

I prefer full-contact chess. I had a concussion most of last week, all because I tried to get cute and do a queenside castle!

 

[alaskanpiper]

I used to play a lot when I was young. I like them game, and still play on occasion, but am far from what anyone would describe as "a chess player"

It is a fun contemplative activity though, and would undoubtedly pair well with a pipe IMO.

 

[cossackjack]

LiChess...puzzles only.
I should play with my son who introduced this app to me. At least the ignominious ridicule would be limited to the family

 

[Country Bladesmith]

That's what she said.

The older I get, the lower the fruit hangs ?

 

[Country Bladesmith]

I do enjoy playing the computer on the chess.com app. If I set it to about 1100, I win most of the time. If I bump it to 1300 I get creamed almost every time. ?‍
I never could really “see the board,” but I enjoy it nonetheless.

 

[KafkaStoleMyBike]

I played a lot through school and college, but have never really embraced online chess. I occasionally play friends when I’m back home, but that’s about it anymore.