Chess

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Originally Posted by mir

yes! or join gameknot.com, it's a chess forum

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Good stuff, mir. My user name there is katcf.. I am nothing if not original when thinking up user names. ;)

Now we can have a big litnet/gameknot contingent! :lol:

Sounds cool Turk. I used to play, though also not great. It takes a lot of effort and constant playing to be good. I used to be on my high school team, but once you get to college the time is just not there for chess and studies. Do I have to join gameknot? There's no way to do it on lit net?

yay!! people are joining gameknot!!! :D

i don't have many games going right now so i'll challenge you all! it's a really fun place - my name there is MirN if anyone wants to play me. :)

Gameknot is pretty informal, Virgil, and each person has a rating that changes depending on the amount of games they win or lose, so you can choose to play people at your skill level. i think it's something totally seperate from LitNet - i got on it because the same friend who recommended me to LitNet recommended gamknot, actually :) - but it's still a really fun thing to do when you want to think and relax at the same time.

OK, Mir. You talked me into it.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention. I'm in GK, too. Same username as here...

great!

hey, Virgil, what's your username on gameknot?

There is a way to do it on lit-net, Virgil...I played correspondence chess for a few months with a friend. You have a board set up with a graph and to move peices you say "1B to 3A" or some such thing. Then the person moves the piece and replies with their own move. I've heard of people playing by Christmas card before!!! That would be one long game. The disadvantage of that is having a board set up all the time, but you can probably do it on the computer as well.
My friend and I eventually gave up and played on some game master site. He whopped me twice in half an hour ;)

I think you're talking about algebraic notation, vintagepiper. :D It's so good to hear that you did that . . . I love playing correspondence chess! You have a long time to think about your moves. :nod:

I'm definitely going to register on gameknot as soon as possible.

I started to play with Mir.

I've never palyed chess:(but I'm really interested.

actually i bet if enough people joined and everyone wanted to we could even get up a LitNet team on Gameknot! i think they have team tournaments and the like. it would be fun! :)

Miss T, you've never played before at all??!

yaa,sadly:(

any teachers around:D
you seem an expert,Mir:)?

u can play chess here????????????????????????????????????????????

where the hell have i been!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i met a really really really nice and intelligent guy the last time i played chess online and wev stayed in touch. hes wonderful!
i wanna play!!!!!!! *throws rattle on the floor and starts making the most of her lungs*

aww . . .yes, you can also meet some really cool people playing chess. :)

so join gameknot, opti!!!!

miss T, i'm actually not that good at chess - i just love playing it. :D

and kathy, i sent you a challenge on gameknot if you want to play!

I've joined, its great....I go by the name Ozeed, but you can call me Oz. lol