Submitted by
billwall on Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:51am.
Who is the strongest chess player in the world? We can assume that it is Viswanathan Anand after he won the 2008 world chess championship, followed by Vladimir Kramnik, his challenger. But on the official world chess federation (FIDE) rating ... Read more »
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Submitted by
tim237 on Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:00am.
Chess players have a reputation of being a bit antisocial, and it's not suprising when the average chess.com chat log looks something like this:
Chess_Guy 1: hey
Chess_Bloke 2: hey
Chess_Bloke 2: hurry up about it
Chess_Guy 1: gg
Chess_Blok... Read more »
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Submitted by
Hellogoodbye1969 on Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:11pm.
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem Basketball playerAbdullah ibn Huseain King of JordanAdams, Richard WriterAgnew, Spiro T. 39th US vice-presidentAkins, Claude ActorAlbert, Prince Husband of Queen VictoriaAlda, Alan ActorAlfonso X King of SpainAllen, Woody Acto... Read more »
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Submitted by
benws on Mon Oct 6, 2008 4:15pm.
Well, i can't believe it. Yesterday i celebrated my one-year anniversary at chess.com. I'm very surprised my account is still here...
About my experience...I've realized just how far one small idea can go. In a year, this small website created by... Read more »
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Submitted by
LYCAN148 on Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:36pm.
Proof games
what is a proof game? You might ask.
well...a proof game is like retrograde chess but you are set up with a diagram, a short game.You will be a number of moves in which this diagram is set up in and your job is to try and see how ... Read more »
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Submitted by
kostas_n on Sun Sep 21, 2008 8:07am.
TWO WHITE AND TWO BLACK HORSES HAVE BEEN PUT IN THE CORNERS OF A CHESS BOARD WITH 9 SQUARES(3X3).(THE TWO WHITE ARE IN THE FIRST LINE AND THE TWO BLACK ARE IN THE THIRD LINE).
TRY TO EXCHANGE THE POSITIONS OF THE WHITE AND THE BLACK HORSES WITH T... Read more »
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Submitted by
Kevindubrow on Sun Sep 14, 2008 7:13pm.
“Idiot girl. Now, I can take your queen.”
Catherine remained silent. She always did when facing the, as her mother would put it, “prickly” master of the mansion in which she lived, along with her mother, a m... Read more »
1064 reads | 6 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
shady_knight on Sun Sep 14, 2008 3:16pm.
MATE IN 4...TRY IT OUT :)
THIS IS A REAL GAME! THERE ARE 2 BLACK BISHOPS BECAUSE I PROMOTTED A PAWN TO THAT :) Read more »
1089 reads | 11 comments | 1 vote:
Submitted by
_Patel on Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:36am.
-- Bird's Opening (1.f4. also known as Bird's Bastard)
-- Orang-Utan Opening (1.b4)
-- Dory Defence (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Ne4)
-- Dragon Variation (Sicilian Defence with Black Bishop on g7)
-- Pelikan Variation (Another variation of the ... Read more »
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Submitted by
Akuni on Sat Sep 6, 2008 4:28pm.
The grandest tradition in chess history is not, as most would expect, making excuses or even emasculating your opponent (May Bobby Fischer rest in peace). It is vilifying the game. Raymond Chandler (No, I've never heard of him before either) ... Read more »
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Submitted by
NM Michelangelooo on Thu Sep 4, 2008 8:02am.
I´m not so long playing on CHESS.com. In my games I noticed that some players are slowing down when they are worse or losing. At first it didn´t make any sense to me. You are going to lose this game anyway, so why slow down?
And then... Read more »
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Submitted by
shady_knight on Tue Sep 2, 2008 2:39pm.
MATE IN 3...WHITE TO MOVE...HOPEFULLY IT WASN'T TO LAME...just doing my first post...kinda an experiment...like ''how to do it'' kinda thing.
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Submitted by
LYCAN148 on Mon Sep 1, 2008 11:51pm.
THIS IS AN EPIC-LY HARD PUZZLE!
NO REALLY Read more »
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Submitted by
Yaupon on Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:30am.
Комеди Клаб
Сергей БессмертныйВыпуск №44
Следующее, о чем хотелось бы поговорить – это о шахматах. В каждой стране свои прави... Read more »
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Submitted by
luc_0ne on Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:49pm.
i have lost a lot games bcs knight blind, as it walks no linearly is very easy u don`t capt all possibilities of its attacks, my friend, i advise: look at knights all the time, ever as possible change knights by bishops. knights are falses, ... Read more »
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Submitted by
Kevindubrow on Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:54pm.
“Idiot girl. Now, I can take your queen.”
Catherine... Read more »
1061 reads | 8 comments | 4 votes:
Submitted by
peter22 on Wed Jul 30, 2008 6:55am.
Here are some of my favorite videos. Hope you enjoy.
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Submitted by
clms_chess on Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:58pm.
Chess Humor 101 (Moving the Pieces) Have you ever had somebody move their chess pieces in such away to completly get under you skin? ... Or maybe just annoy you a little? This will be the first installment of a series of short “se... Read more »
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Submitted by
Knightly on Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:06pm.
from my new website, ChessUp.org. (www.chessup.org/) Some people have some crazy ideas in their heads about chess. Maybe even you have had some of these thoughts before. Here, I go over some of the most common misconceptions about chess... Read more »
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Submitted by
Str8uchiha_sharingan on Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:20pm.
There comes times in my on-line chess challenges that I can not play like a monotonous, robot. That's when the trash talk comes out. Most of the time, it is just a friendly "You got destroyed" or "Were you playing with... Read more »
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Submitted by
Przemowiersz on Mon May 19, 2008 5:53am.
I want to earn some money to pay for my chess school. I want to do it in the way of chessplayer earning this money giving myself chess lessons. I will teach how to improve your chess, starting to fight for something during tournaments o... Read more »
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Submitted by
Chesser777 on Sun May 18, 2008 12:44pm.
This text is translated from Dutch to English. Correct me on my mistakes if u see some please, thanks. The openings that i am going to give a look at are all played regularly at all levels. Its important you can recognize them a... Read more »
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Submitted by
billwall on Tue May 13, 2008 2:33pm.
In 1957, Alex Bernstein created the first really complete chess program at IBM. It ran on an IBM 704, one of the last vacuum tube computers. It took about 8 minutes to make a move. In 1958, Alan Newell, John Shaw, ... Read more »
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Submitted by
billwall on Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:30pm.
Since Bobby Fischer's death, there have been at least three forgeries of his signature on eBay and other auction sites. One must be careful of these forgeries. Lawrence Totaro, a Las Vegas collector and researcher, wrote a very ni... Read more »
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Submitted by
DimKnight on Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:36am.
My darling Petrovna, I never thought I'd be sending something like this; but after a relationship as tempestuous and complicated as ours, I thought it would be best to get my feelings down on paper, so there would be no misunderst... Read more »
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