Chess

[forestfan]

The Queen’s Gambit, Magnus Carlsen, lockdowns in general... online chess is experiencing something of a boom right now. Any active/interested players on here? I’ve been playing on chess.com with work colleagues and random people from around the world recently.

There’s a private FISO Chess Club forum in existence, but the last activity on it was in 2008 so didn’t think it was worth posting there! I remember being soundly beaten by a few here in a competition we had back in the day, so I think there were some decent players but not sure how many of them still visit here.

[bspittles]

I play, but definitely just for fun. I don’t know any openings but still find it enjoyable.

[blahblah]

There was a FISO Comp a while back and had it's own Forum etc.

I'm up for playing again......

[murf]

Have vague memories of maybe playing 1 or 2 games with someone from FISO purely to make up numbers.

2008 could be right!

I was useless then and haven't played since.

Maybe if I could start with 8 horses and 2 prawns rather than the other way round....

[Vid]

Do chess.com puzzles most days on facebook, played as a guest a couple of times on chess.com, not a challenge. Keep thinking (well, maybe once or twice a year) about getting back into chess, time is always an issue. Get something going and I'll do my best to join in.

[blahblah]

I will too.

Played it back then, and fancy beating vid

[Vid]

I will too.

Played it back then, and fancy beating vid

Dream on!!!

[blahblah]

I will too.

Played it back then, and fancy beating vid

Dream on!!!

I'm sure we used chess.com way back when....

[Vid]

we used yahoo having read through a few threads, oh, those were the days!!!

[blahblah]

we used yahoo having read through a few threads, oh, those were the days!!!

The good old non vitriolic days......

[Vid]

Just a warning, played another couple of games on chess.com as a guest, ahead on time, position fairly even and it declared that black won, I didn't resign, software might not be great.

[forestfan]

Just a warning, played another couple of games on chess.com as a guest, ahead on time, position fairly even and it declared that black won, I didn't resign, software might not be great.

I’ve had no problems, using iPad/iPhone app, though mainly playing daily time limits (i.e. up to a day to make a move, though you can play faster if you wish).

I expect it depends on your device and broadband speed to an extent, particularly if you play really frantic time limits... the best in the world play speed chess tournaments on the platform so it must be considered pretty reliable.

[forestfan]

we used yahoo having read through a few threads, oh, those were the days!!!

The good old non vitriolic days......

Yahoo chess was full of twits even 20 years ago...

[blahblah]

we used yahoo having read through a few threads, oh, those were the days!!!

The good old non vitriolic days......

Yahoo chess was full of twits even 20 years ago...

I won a few, but then some Grandmasters from here mullered me....

[forestfan]

we used yahoo having read through a few threads, oh, those were the days!!!

The good old non vitriolic days......

Yahoo chess was full of twits even 20 years ago...

I won a few, but then some Grandmasters from here mullered me....

Yeah, I think Vid was pretty good, not sure who the others were that I played back then (most of those on the old thread don’t seem to be active members any more).

[forestfan]

This is the original tournament thread, which I’ve just been looking through - actually way back in 2006, though I think there may have been one or two subsequent ones. Looks like it was as much of a bustard to organise as my heads-up poker championship

viewtopic.php?f=55&t=3619

Seems I did a bit better than I remember, making the quarter-finals, though largely thanks to a lopsided draw it would appear. Apparently a rook and pawn endgame was my undoing, which sounds familiar after I blundered to defeat in one from 3 pawns up the other day...

[Vid]

jeffersdn was good!

[forestfan]

jeffersdn was good!

Yeah, looking at the thread he was one of 3 or 4 who were potentially pushing 200 BCF, which is getting towards IM standard (or was, I recently discovered they’ve now scrapped that grading system and converted to something broadly equivalent to Elo as the masters, and chess websites, use).

I found the blitz tournament which was played later, that’s the one I remember losing heavily in as it was mostly the stronger players who signed up (and it was never properly finished).

[mastersm]

To be honest, I like to play chess. I think that thanks to chess, mental processes work better. My dad tried to teach me, but that mostly involved a lot of yelling, swearing, and tears. Lol