How to Win at Live Chess

Submitted by Dozy on Mon, 01/21/2008 at 11:23am.

Chess.com's LIVE CHESS is reaching the end of its testing period and will soon be with us, so it's time to share some experiences gleaned during my wanderings on the Web.

For the past five years I've been playing Internet chess. It has all the convenience of playing from home, finding opponents of your own strength and chatting with people around the world. I've spoken to Russian lawyers, Chinese soldiers, Antarctic scientists, and just about everybody else you could name.

I started with the Kasparov Chess Club, moved on to World Chess Network (which was taken over by ICC and renamed World Chess Live) then found a home here at Chess.com.

Of course, the type of chess you play on the Internet is a bit different to club chess. It's neither as intense nor as serious. Lots of very quick moves get played, sometimes with disastrous results. Sometimes they're just plain funny—whether they happen to you or to your opponent.

If FIDE developed a black box game recorder to capture comments used by Internet players whose games had just crashed, I think the word most frequently recorded would be, "Oops!"

The article already appears on the Internet and, since there are 16 hints accompanied by 16 brevities, it's more convenient to link to them than to reproduce them here.

You can play through them here: http://tinyurl.com/2soae5

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by Dozy - 2 months ago
Blue Mountains Australia

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 750

Hi JC, thanks for the comment. It's been around six months since I wrote that piece and, to be truthful, I thought it had been buried in the archives by now. I'm a little surprised, after getting your comment, to re-visit the page and see how many people have read it.

I just had a look at your chess.com home page. Looks good. I've started tracking your activity, so we'll bump into each other from time-to-time.

by JCoombs1972 - 2 months ago
St. Louis Mo United States

Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 101

Very interesting article Dozy, I too have found this site to be my new chess playing home as ICC has taken over chess live where I played as KingsAttacker for several yrs. Then moved to msn.com for chess which i found lacking. I like this site a whole lot due to the amount of resources and abilities it has for the players.

by Dozy - 5 months ago
Blue Mountains Australia

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 750

Thanks, Erik. These blunders are not to be taken too seriously, of course, but we do some funny things in blitz that we wouldn't normally even consider in a normal game.

Of course, we can do some pretty awful things when we have time to think, too. I remember one OTB rapid game (20 minutes a side) in a game that was as good as won, when I found the only square on the board where I could be mated . . . and found the only move when it could happen. I posted that one on chess.com in my Sweet and Sour Chess article.

I gotta confess, it was a bit of a shock when he invited my king to emigrate to another square, but I could see the humour in it, even at the time.

by erik - 5 months ago
Mountain View, CA United States

Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 5880

very cool article!

by Longboylegend - 6 months ago
san pedro de macorris Dominican Republic

Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 105

waw so cool.

by Dozy - 7 months ago
Blue Mountains Australia

Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 750

Soon, Justin, Perhaps within days. Of course, there's Live Beta running at the moment where you can go in and try your hand.

by justwrightin - 7 months ago
Redlands, CA United States

Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 59

Funny stuff most of it went over my head. ^^ Fine I will admit to not having as sophisticated humor as everyone else. Then again I am first to comment. But David you know when live chess is going to come out?

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