Chess games

[Neo-Scholastic]

I started computer chess on a Radio Shack game. It had those tiny peg pieces.

[Captain Colostomy]

I always start with Scholar's Mate...if I fail to impress quickly, I just fail.

[Edwardo Piet]

Sounds just like you!

Maybe personality types should be tested on what kind of chess opening is one's favourite rather than the whole right-brain left-brain debunked myths now.

[bennyboy]

So. . . nobody plays chess? I didn't know atheists were so unintellectual and uncivilized!

[Ryantology]

I play, but I'm not very skilled.

[Walking Void]

So. . . nobody plays chess? I didn't know atheists were so unintellectual and uncivilized!

Sorry sir, I will get back to my game right away.

[Doubting Thomas]

I totally missed the chess thread. Chess is one of my hobbies, and I play on chess.com often. I'm still not very good yet, only have a ~1350 rating there but hope to get it back up to ~1400 where it was before I resigned a bunch of games when my mother was in the hospital and I couldn't concentrate on my games. I mainly play the online chess, 3 days or more per move, since that gives me plenty of time to study the board and decide what to do next. My major weakness is that it takes me a while to study the board and decide what to move, so I play longer games and no bullet or blitz chess for me.

I play OTB (over the board) chess with my brother-in-law and have a few neat chess sets.

[bennyboy]

Man it sucks that nobody here is into chess. Anyway, the following game is an absolute gem-- all white's moves seem totally sensible and logical, until his world comes crashing down. Welcome to my torture chamber!

( Paste the whole contents following into a text file, and save it as something.png, and it is openable in BabasChess or any other chess program to view it in all its glory. )

[Event "rated blitz match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2013.09.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "dais"]
[Black "bennyboy"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1591"]
[BlackElo "1604"]
[ECO "C40"]
[TimeControl "300"]

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 f5
3. Bc4 Nf6
4. Nxe5 fxe4
5. Nf7 Qe7
6. Nxh8 d5
7. Bb3 Bg4
8. f3 exf3+
9. Kf2 fxg2
10. Qe1 gxh1=Q
11. Qxh1 Qe2+
12. Kg3 Ne4+
13. Kf4 g5+
14. Ke5 Bg7+
15. Kxd5 c6# {dais checkmated} 0-1

[Doubting Thomas]

Online PGN viewer here: http://chesstempo.com/pgn-viewer.html

Once you got his king out of the safety of his back rank and moving all over the board, it was all over.

[bennyboy]

Online PGN viewer here: http://chesstempo.com/pgn-viewer.html

Once you got his king out of the safety of his back rank and moving all over the board, it was all over.

Nice link, thank you.

I think it's all over as soon as he moves his bishop of the K2 diagonal. I don't see how he doesn't at least lose the queen in any variation. Hmmmm. . .