Can You Play Chess?

[arwalden]

[kodi]

1. used to play a lot of chess, but i've been playing Go for 5 years now

its harder to play well for me than chess, the saying about Go is "you can learn it in an hour, but take a lifetime to master it"

was delighted to see it played in that movie with that whatshisname crowe fella' a year or so aGo

free smaller version linked.. careful its addictive

http://www.smart-games.com/igowin.html

[psychopomp]

20. Love chess, no go on go

To me, go, or "igo," is unlike chess in the feel of the game. It is constant thrust and parry which has a different feel for me than the deliberative, building elements of chess.

To put it another way, go does not have the small interludes that chess often does, in my experience. So, it can be a tough game to learn.

Now shogi, on the other hand, is much like chess: the pieces move in similar ways and the goal is much the same. I'll be up for shogi before I'll be up for a chess game.:)

[AlienGirl]

2. I know *how* to play chess

But my spatial reasoning is severely limited; an average six-year-old can out-perform me at any game involving spatial strategy. (I have spatial agnosia...and you haven't seen anything till you've watched a pair of spatial agnosiac Aspies try to find their way around a city together!)

Tucker

[Jack Rabbit]

3. I play chess

I play chess just well enough to tell as I begin contemplating resignation exactly which move I shouldn't have made.

[Bertha Venation]

4. never learned but want to

I've wanted to for years.

[FDRrocks]

5. very well

I used to play in high school with this guy Dave who could beat me in 3 moves, basically. We played all the time, it really improved my abstract manuevering. The one time this kid beet 25 people at once, it was sick.

I spent much of high school behind the checkered board.

[supernova]

6. So So

I learned as a kid and got pretty good at it. My brother came home from college one year with a chess set he had made, both the board and the ceramic chess pieces.

I haven't played in years, though. Haven't run into anyone who would like it.

[bemildred]

7. I played a lot a long time ago, still do once in a while.

Enough seems to have stuck so that I do well against
naive players (one's who have not spent much time with
book study of the game.) A long time ago is when Bobby
Fischer was hot.

[Kathleen04]

8. Nope..

A friend tried to teach me too, but it all goes over my head. :crazy:

[populistmom]

9. I was told I was a chess savant at 5

Then my parents split up (for the first time anyway) and my dad moved across the country. After that, I associated chess with the hurt of my dad leaving because my mom couldn't play and I never played again. I've forgotten how at this point and I haven't had the desire to relearn. My husband, though, plays with our 11 and 8 year old children and they kick butt.

[AlFrankenFan]

10. I can play

but not well

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. I'm playing right now

chessclub.com

[regnaD kciN]

12. USCF rating of 1472...

...which makes me pretty "so-so" in my book. Besides, that rating is from almost a decade ago, and I've scarcely played since. I find chess is fascinating, but other tournament chess players...oy gevalt! (And, yes, that is a Frisco Kid reference there.)

[moz4prez]

13. I RULE AT CHESS

[terrya]

14. I never learned. And I wish I knew how. eom

[hobbes159]

15. Kids really get into chess.....

I've worked at several summer camps, and it was always popular as a pasttime. At the last camp I worked at, we started a chess class that was VERY popular -- to the point that the kids and the staff were setting up tournaments to play during their free time... (it actually became a problem in that the chess boards for the classes kept disappearing into the cabins!)

[b-ballgurl]

16. hi

chess is fun to play if u play with someone else who knows how to play :thumbsup:

[LuLu550]

17. I know how to move the pieces

but don't have a clue about strategy. I must be a moran!

[supernova]

18. It would be fun

to find a chess partner again. I would love to play.

[buddhamama]

19. i play so so

my eight yr old son and i play each other. he winds up winning most of the time.