Chess

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...i use to play very oftern some time ago, but not anymore - which is sad.

It's easy to get out of practice. Dont get disheartened.

I dont like to play on AvT discussion boards because I get too engrossed in chess and it distracts me.

But I saw you making an effort to get a chess thread going and since your invitation to play wasnt getting many/any serious takers, I thought I'd help get a game going.

I really recommend http://chessup.net/ as a great board set up tool and tinypic url generator so folk can easily post board images here to follow their game progress.

Anyone interested can take the FEN (Forsyth Notation) which looks like this...

2kr3r/ppp1nppp/8/4p3/Pb1nP1Pq/1b1P1P2/1K5P/1NBQ1B1R

...which you can see is part of the image file properties and then go to chessup.net and paste them into the "Enter FEN" section and it sets up the board.

You can move pieces around as much as you like to test out different combinations of play or lines of attack then press F5 to revert back to where you were.

Keep on playing more games The_Germans_Are_Coming. As you get back into practice you will certainly get better and then we shall play another game.

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I like your avatar TGC.
I think Mr Gödel was a Christian wasnt he?
What an amazing guy.

I wanted to visit Gödel again, but he told me that he was too ill. In the middle of January 1978, I dreamed I was at his bedside.
There was a chess board on the covers in front of him. Gödel reached his hand out and knocked the board over, tipping the men onto the floor. The chessboard expanded to an infinite mathematical plane. And then that, too, vanished. There was a brief play of symbols, and then emptiness—an emptiness flooded with even white light.
The next day I learned that Kurt Gödel was dead.

(“Conversations with Gödel”, in Rudy Rucker’s Infinity and the Mind, Princeton University Press, 1995. )