I play chess - but not all that good. And I don't have time to play in real time.
So if you are interested you can join "itsyourturn.com" and challenge user "DeepThought" :-)
P.S I am not that good at chess. But can make it challenging (sometimes :-))
And DeepThought is just an id to scare people - nothing to it :-)
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Chess is the only game with no element of chance, right?
I like to start a game of chess; I like to win, to finish. It's this business of the middle game that can drive me crazy.
Hah, I have no end game, in fact, I have no strategy... But that is the fun part
People with strategy get annoyed at my random moves and then make a simple mistake and then loose.... Although, I beat an asian dude, the president of a chess team, and then lost to a semi-retarded kid. So my strategy of no strategy does not always work very well. But it was still fun playing. I like chess, but not enough to play a lot, just randomly, like once a year, where I play 4 games or so that one time.
Bookworms, the thread started about role playing and you talk about chess, deteriorate the mind a little. THe only differences between an RPG and Reality is that the role playing game is more fun. Also you <b>have</b> to eat in reality.
Yes: chess ... 3 ways, three players.
Funny thing is this: it's so well designed that no rules need to be altered ... Beginners in Geometry only get a little dizzy with the M. C. Escher (see Wiki) looks of the design.
Genius work!
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Oh, sorry ... 'Should have given a link of some sort, aye?Originally Posted by weltanschauung
Here goes: http://meignorant.com/3-way_chess
no way?? rules don't have to be altered?? but nooo... wait... how can this be??? No, I cannot accept this change! no no no!
I like two person chess. just leave it be, people!
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too late Pashy~
[It's well designed, and rules don't change because it is made of squares. The only thing that changes is that a third player can join the fun. Movements of pieces are unaltered. They move exactly the same way. -- Yes: exactly. The board is different, that's all, but it doesn't alter the rules (pieces' movements, functions, values). It only gives a geometrical look to the game, only that. Looks like complicate, but, in fact, it's simpler than it .. looks.
Game begins normally with one player randomically chosen (stone-paper-scissors), and it goes clockwise.
Too bad it wasn't me to make it up ... I'd like to have gotten rich ...]
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This is marvelous
Thanks for telling - and I like the McEscher design
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Now that's a major challenge...not only do you have to worry about the strategies of one person...it's like fighting a two-front war...and that never goes well...
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Not bad
There will be another person to share my sorrow when I lose...
According to the rules, game ends when first check mate is given. But I've been discussing with a friend the possibility of the man who gives the first check mate to keep the adversary's army ... It might make sense.
Maybe the players might cast lots, to see who gets the army.
Third option would be the looser decides it.
Fourth best pieces go to winner, and pawns go to the other one.
Fifth, the army remains untouched, and other two players go on.
sixth, army is removed from the board ...
There may be (many) others
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Wow, this looks complicated. Have you played Libri? Are there group dynamics involved, where two people may team up and defeat the third before squaring off against each other? I used to love chess. It just takes so much time to keep sharp that I don't have time for it any more.
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Not yet, but I showed this to a friend of mine, he got quite interested ...
There's people who play in the computer, to get sharp. I like to play with myself. Intercalating with playing with other people, and trying their strategies, when I play with myself.
It's a wonderful pastime to be with friends! Tough thing to play with married friends, though ... It seems a wife takes all your time. Only, perhaps, if you get a friend who has a wife, so she can be chitchat'ring, while the guys play.
Or get a girl who likes to play. In certain couples, though, it seems not to quite work out ... I don't know, there's something about women & chess that I could not yet quite figure out what is ...
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[Possibly it's the relation with war. Men make play wars since he's a kid, and there's no home in chess. Only battlefield. Thoughts, thoughts ...]
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