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Any chess players on PZ?
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 3:39 am
by Counterparts
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

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:28 am
by Counterparts
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

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:31 am
by Zer
Nope...only real chess please... (an I´m fucking bad in it...so....)
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:36 am
by Counterparts
Real chess..?
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:44 am
by Zer
Yes..that means using a real playground like this

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:00 am
by Counterparts
Ah, with you!
My friend Tom's like that, he refuses to play on a '2-D' board

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:23 am
by paulrmartin
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

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:56 am
by Cochise
Three days per move? A game could last for years.
Would like it, but I'm not a good player.
Any monopoly online?
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:36 am
by paulrmartin
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...
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:47 am
by Cochise
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?

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:19 am
by paulrmartin
Well, the players kept the letters with the moves, didn't they?
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:59 am
by Cochise
As a backup
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:19 am
by paulrmartin
I don't think the word "backup" even existed in the 1800's.
Let's say..."contingency"

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:22 pm
by spoimala
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

Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:59 pm
by paulrmartin
pseudoajzzer vs counterparts
Who has which colour pieces?
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:18 am
by Counterparts
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

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:49 pm
by husker
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
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:09 pm
by Cochise
Sorry Royston, know it's not good staying at work with wet feet.
Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:10 am
by Counterparts
CRT monitors are very good at drying socks!

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 5:18 am
by Zer
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.
