How many people like chess here on simviation? If you do, please reply.

I'm used to be quite keen on chess. Don't play to much these days.
My father was really good, used to play for Middlesex! I only beat him once!!!

Ozzy

Quite frankly I never understood it.

I can play chess, but alas I haven't played for years.


sarah

I love chess.  I hadn't played it in probably three years untill school started.  I have a study hall with two friends who know the game and we play then.  

I used to play ever day when I was little, and I'm starting to get back to that...My father taught my brother and I when we were both very young, and we were both very good for our ages.  My father told us that if we ever beat him, he'd give us $50.  Neither if us ever beat him.  I guess he was rather confident he would never lose to us...It would always be, "Are you sure you want to move your knight there?  Well, Okay.  Check mate."

Now I'm just trying to get back to the level of skill I possessed when I was younger.

Sock

Chess is a game I have loved for many years.

Incidentally, why do ask?  Are you looking for someone to play with?

And Scorpion, go check out http://zone.msn.com ; There's an online chess room that you can play in for free.  Great for practice, as there are always hundreds of different players, meaning hundreds of ways to be beaten.

Thanks Baron.

I love chess so much that I have a Chessmaster 5000 installed on my computer and I play against my own system. It's a good thing that WinXP has a special ability in ragardsto games that are only compatible for Win98. Chessmaster 5000 is only for Win95 and 98.

I also play [on some ocassions] with my cousin whose older than me. We always take a hell of a long time playing against each other in this game. Most often he wins, rarely we get a stalemate [tied] and very rarely I win.

My stratagy is always simple.

I would always build a strong defense. One piece is always guarding another while another extra piece is guarding the same piece.

It's like Fort Knox. You have many guards and snipers keeping an eye on the gold. 

Then, as my opponent would try to chip-away my defense [by sending suicide pawns], I would try to buy some time to see how I can destroy my opponent's generals [Rooks, Biships, and the Queen].

At the same time, I would try to utilize my opponent's blindspots and use them against him. Like a pawn in front of a pawn, or a Bishop in front of Knight, and so on.

I also use several techniques that are widely known by the best chess players. Such as Castling, Horwitz Opening [if I can remember the name], and so on.

The Horwitz Opening is when [for your first move of the game] you move the pawn forward by one space [the one in front of the King]. That way, your Queen and Bishop is open an attack against any piece with their range.