Any chess players on PZ?

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:39 am

Get yourself an account on www.GameKnot.com and Bring It!

I'm counterparts on gameknot too btw

By default, the online games are given three days per move, so it's not as if you have to squat in front of your monitor for hours at a time to play a game

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:28 am

Well, I've got one PZ 'chess recruit' now, any others..?

I've got back into playing Go again too, but it's been a while (AKA more than twenty years) ... The GNU Go engine keeps kicking my butt horribly

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:31 am

Nope...only real chess please... (an I´m fucking bad in it...so....)

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:36 am

Real chess..?

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:44 am

Yes..that means using a real playground like this

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:00 am

Ah, with you!

My friend Tom's like that, he refuses to play on a '2-D' board

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:23 am

I tried chess on Yahoo Games once. The guys I played with were power hungry adolescents and had no sense of humour.

What fun is it to play a game when you're constantly being insulted?

I might try your link anyway, Counterparts

Cochise · Post by **Cochise** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:56 am

Three days per move? A game could last for years.
Would like it, but I'm not a good player.

Any monopoly online?

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:36 am

Cochise wrote:Three days per move? A game could last for years.
Would like it, but I'm not a good player.

In the 1800's people would play by correspondance. This meant writing your move in a letter with ink and pen and sending it by post(or carrier pigeon), sometimes overseas. So , yes, a game could last for years. But at least the person you played with had nicer things to say than the oversexed teens on most boards...

Cochise · Post by **Cochise** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:47 am

paulrmartin wrote:
In the 1800's people would play by correspondance. This meant writing your move in a letter with ink and pen and sending it by post(or carrier pigeon), sometimes overseas. So , yes, a game could last for years. But at least the person you played with had nicer things to say than the oversexed teens on most boards...

What did it happen if, after months, on a day accidentally one of the chess board fell down to the floor?

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:19 am

Well, the players kept the letters with the moves, didn't they?

Cochise · Post by **Cochise** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:59 am

As a backup

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:19 am

I don't think the word "backup" even existed in the 1800's.

Let's say..."contingency"

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:22 pm

Counterparts wrote:Well, I've got one PZ 'chess recruit' now, any others..?

What's that?

I joined GameKnot too. You've got a challenge there

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:59 pm

pseudoajzzer vs counterparts

Who has which colour pieces?

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:18 am

I'm white against pseudojazzer and black against spoimala

The UK is mental today, crazy winds and I had to ride through about two feet of water (road completely flooded) to get to work

I'd have been OK but the passing traffic decided to fill my boots up with water

husker · Post by **husker** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:49 pm

What do expect if you come from 'Bath'

sorry, couldn't help myself

Bath is a nice place btw...some of my ancient ancestry comes from that part of the world

Cochise · Post by **Cochise** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:09 pm

Sorry Royston, know it's not good staying at work with wet feet.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:10 am

CRT monitors are very good at drying socks!

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:18 am

What`s so bad about a phone game. Phone costs are cheap and all you have to know about english conversation the alphabet and how to count until 10, except from hello and bye-bye.