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Top 10 Questions in Live Chess, Answered

Top 10 Questions in Live Chess, Answered

groteskbold
| Jul 2, 2012
| 7,959
| 4

Top 10 Live chess help and support room questions: Q: how do I castle?A: Move the king two squares. Rook moves automatically, if castling is legal. Q: I am getting Fair Play policy warnings, but I'm doing nothing wrong. The server keeps aborting ...

Gentle Readers: Etiquette in Live Chess Games

Gentle Readers: Etiquette in Live Chess Games

groteskbold
| Nov 16, 2010
| 4,383
| 13

According to Wikipedia, etiquette “is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class or group.” More simply put, etiquette is a set of rules about how...

Help! displaying games on a site

Help! displaying games on a site

groteskbold
| Oct 29, 2010
| 2,578
| 0

Arrrggghhh! I'm so frustrated. I am hoping 1 million great brains on chess.com can help out. I am trying to turn annotated PGNs into "clickable" chess games to display on a Joomla web site. We started out using Chessflash (www.chessflash.com), wh...

"Oh, no! I have to play as black now?"

"Oh, no! I have to play as black now?"

groteskbold
| May 11, 2010
| 28,741
| 72

Yes, indeed. Chess.com has changed the live chess game seeks so members can no longer specify color. Members can still select color when challenging an individual, just not when putting up a seek. Color in game seeks is now assigned randomly by th...

What's in a name?

What's in a name?

groteskbold
| Feb 22, 2010
| 1,716
| 4

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/berthold/akzidenz-grotesk-bq/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akzidenz-Grotesk Definition of the tyopographic term "grotesque" (or Grotesk): See "other names for sans-serif" in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Cheers to my British Buddies

Cheers to my British Buddies

groteskbold
| Feb 1, 2010
| 1,666
| 2

Here's what they're saying about you on our public radio http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=123202083&m=123202043

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