The Church of Alvis

The Chess Olympiad is going on right now in Norway. Lots of great games to watch/study.
https://chess24.com/en/olympiad2014

That has reignited my desire to play chess. I played two games with Jimer yesterday on
http://www.chess.com/

If you want to play me Blackferne, jimer is Cyclometh, whitey is WhiteySmith, Reese is snlu178 (though he hasn't been on in a long while.

If you don't know how to play, and want what seems to be a good site to learn the game beyond "the horsey goes like this", I saw this on Reddit.

http://www.chesscademy.com/

It has videos and quizzes to help you learn key concepts and a tactics trainer.

In a general sense would there be interest in a Alvian chess tournament? (round robin or swiss format)

So this is real chess...not code for "you-know-what"?


I've played once & promptly forgot how, though I wouldn't mind giving it another go.

Nope, it's the real thing. Blackferne's been showing me how rusty I am lately. This game's going better for me, though.

I am not a good player, I've known how to play for years just not how to play well.

A crappy Cuspar appears!

Cuspar just taught me I shouldn't drink and play

edit: and on that note I think I should not make any more moves in my game against blackie

Also, Double Dog from Flying Dog is a good beer at 11.5% abv

Last night was fun. Jimer had an impressive end to our game. Cuspar revealed himself as a swashbuckling style player. And whitey got scholarmated.

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I haven't played in so long, I've lost any kevorka I ever had. Swashbuckling=reckless!

I'm loving it though. Blackie is gud at teh chiss.

I had some very strong endgame play against Joun's very solid positional game.

Cuspar wrote:I haven't played in so long, I've lost any kevorka I ever had. Swashbuckling=reckless!

I'm loving it though. Blackie is gud at teh chiss.

Swashbuckling is not always reckless. Google "chess immortal game" in1851. Anderssen typifies what I mean by swashbuckling.

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Blackferne wrote: Google "chess immortal game" in1851. Anderssen typifies what I mean by swashbuckling.

And this is why Blackie pwns teh noob in chess.

I should play when I've been drinking more often!

Jimer Lins wrote:I should play when I've been drinking more often!

Which leads to the obvious question of why weren't you drinking before?

Regardless of all the things that tell me I have a brain for logic... Chess just looks like 2 peeps moving things around on a checkerboard.

Crazy I know, since that's exactly what it is.....

I'm waiting on the expansion.

You mean this?

I would totally learn to play star trek 3d chess if I could buy a board for a reasonable price.

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Dear Blackferne,

Re: last night's match



(I guess I'd never suspect myself of developing a potentially successful queen's gambit.)

Dammit.

Love,
Cuspy

For everyone's benefit here is the game cuspar is raging about.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=95955796

His mistake was on move 38 black moved Rbc8. The winning move was QxRf1 because regardless is I take the queen or move to H2 he has checkmate.

(KxQ RC1 checkmate)
or
(Kh2 Rxf2 checkmate)

I didn't see that on move 38, but after I did I was going to continually check until I got something. Though looking at it now we were each racing to checkmate and his Rbc8 was a loss in tempo for him that allowed me to bully with my queen until checkmate.