Stuff Non-Chess Players Say

Whenever I play a relatively new chess player, I don't use en passant, unless it would be really essential in my game. If they really want to learn how to play chess then of course I'm more than happy to teach them. But I weigh the benefit of teaching them en passant mid-game. Let's be real... you can't go over all the rules of chess for every new chess player you play! 

Yeah, I've done that too. THought to myself, "Well shoot, if I take his pawn en passant, then we'll have to get into a big explanation and he may or not be suspicious, could be a hassle, ah heck I'll just do a different move."

That's why I try to play only club players, unless I have enough familiarity with the other person to ask him/her if really knows all the rules.

if someone doesn't know all the rules then that makes them a moron and should take all opportunity to crush them.

But that won't happen. You simply will fall into endless discussions.

Doesn't make them an idiot, everybody has to learn at some point.

at which point you ignore and walk away... you are not obligated to discuss rules with morons.. this isn't nam.

i said moron, not idiot. don't mis-quote me.

I'm with you, Staggerlee. But in my experience, the less they know about the game, the more they argue and try to teach you.

I was faced with a situation in which I had to try to explain "on crossant" to a noob. He then asked if he could do a double-jump.

I was playing with someone and it seemed like they knew the basic rules of chess. Everything was going smoothly. And then they tried to castle their queen, and I said you can't do that, and they said "Oh. Which one's the king?" 

In my situation, I'm one of the ones who helps organize the chess club. So I'm somewhat obliged to play everyone, whether they're ten times better than me or just the opposite. I don't mind it. I was playing someone the other day and I was in a great winning position. I messed up my moves though and lost in front of all his buddies and a crowd that had formed – on his end. Ha! 

Hate a crowd of kibitzers. Even one.

A_G_A (he posted here a few days ago) and I frequently witness chess games at our school. We keep our analyses of the game to a minimum, but when we play, people always come over, two moves in, and say "Who's winning? Oh, I see check in two moves. You can get him in check! When you getr the person in check you can get the king out, right?" To symbolize how I felt after the patzers left, I purposely hung my queen, rooks, knight, etc.

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Wow...that's funny. I had a race. Let's just say that I'm kinda tired.

I take every oppurtunity I get to do en passant. (Well, almost every). It's a fun move to play.  I'll play it against non-chessers but I'll explain that rule, and most of the time they know that I'm not going to make up rules so they don't argue.

(Most...don't ask about the others).

You both have simular online ratings so it should be close perhaps!

@ Winer: It's my first online game. So, it's not that accurate. I think after I play a dozen games or so, the rating will be more accurate.

The revenge of the extra long quote

This quote might even beat the very long quote from before

No, I WIN!