Chess

[yourfriend]

I started when I was prob 8, no tournaments or serious play. I currently use Shredder Chess on my phone but haven't found any multiplayer games.

 

Shredder chess is fantastic, best chess app I've ever seen.

 

I just started getting interested in chess a couple years ago and only started to really learn this year. Still trying to get some sense of how to not lose haha.

 

 

How do you find out about big tournaments? I'd love to follow them if I had any idea when/where they were occurring.

[Nielsvd]

Just google for the website of the FIDE (The World Chess Federation) and you can find out about most big tournaments in near you. Often the tournament info has a link to the tournaments website, for even more information!

 

I myself have a pretty big match coming up tonight. Last season I got promoted to a higher group, so now I'm fighting against regelation from this one. I'm playing one off the other regelation 'candidates' tonight, who HAS to win against me, in order to stand a chance of staying in this group. I'm getting a bit nervous already, haha! I'll let you all know how it went

 

I'm glad to see that many people do enjoy playing chess, by the way. It's such a beautiful sport, but most clubs (unlike mine ) are shrinking, instead of growing. It seems that less and less people are willing to learn and play Chess

[SunLight]

gl for your match

[Malokyte]

I go to my college's chess club, meets every Wednesday. There's usually not many people there, on average 4-6 each night, but hey, were an official club, so it doesn't really matter.

 

Though we play bughouse more often than chess :s It's basically chess except it's a team of two vs a team of two, one teammate on black, other white. Whenever your teammate captures a piece, he gives it to you, and you can place a piece on the board anywhere (with a few limitations for pawns) as your turn, or you can do conventional chess moves. And each player has 5 minutes in total for all their moves. Checkmate or flagging of either player results in the whole team losing. It gets pretty hectic.

 

It also doesn't help that we have a top ranked state chess player in the club :s nobody beats him except through pure luck or sneakiness.

[Nielsvd]

I played a different, yet still important match. I lost though haha

 

I actually played some bughouse chess aswell yesterday! We don't call it that though and we play with slightly different rules. E.g. we don't automatically lose the match, if your teammates loses, if you still win then you've 'tied' the teammatch.

 

Top ranked state player huh That's pretty sweet! We got some pretty strong players at my club, but I'm not sure if they'd be good enough to defeat a player like that haha.

[darkfang77]

Played chess since 6 I think.

Thing is, when I'm playing against someone new. I usually lose the first match.

Then I win every match after it

[SunLight]

I know this is not a chess forum , so maybe the question is way too complex and probably I can find an answer in many other places, but as a nub player (I played only for some months, and that was 5 years ago) I was curious to know what you people 'think' every move, I mean if you have a sort of checklist that you follow, to avoid tactical mistakes or threats after the opponent has moved, and before making your own move.

[Nielsvd]

Well what I usually do first is see what my opponent played and for what reason and try to think 'What is he going to do?' This is, by itself, the most complex part of the thinking process. Then when you've established the best moves, you try to see what you can do best, to make it hard for him. Then you just start calculating every move. "If I do this, then he can do this, this and this. What are the dangers for him and for me? Is it possible to capture a pawn or a piece, or to get a positional advantage?" Etc. etc. It is quite complex of course and something only the best players can accomplish, but this is pretty much the most common 'thinking strategy,' I believe.

 

Hope it helps!

[Warrior Man]

I like to play chess, besides being a hobby, helps us to exercise the mind ...

a game of strategy, patience, agility, etc ...