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Do you think chess on wooden board is bound to get extinct
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There are positives and negatives for both types of play. I can play someone on the other side of the world electronically.
However, they can conveniently disconnect just before I deliver the winning move. Besides that, I wouldn't get to see the look of anguish on their faces or the whimpering in their voices as they realise they've lost.
Boring? How? Actually moving pieces makes you bored? I don't understand, please enlighten me.
I think that maybe, in the future, robots will abandon wooden boards, just out of spite for mother nature.
DuploCloud wrote:
imkan125 wrote:
I personally feel that chess on computer is going to make chess on wooden board to get extinct in near future. Chess on wooden boards look so much more time consuming and kind of boring. What do you guys think about it.
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some wooden boards are works of art. but I prefer mouse pad material because you can carry it anywhere. 20" green and white.
Computer board glitches = problem
Wooden board glitches = nearly non-existant
Feb 23, 2015
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I prefer playing OTB but I rarely have anyone on hand who wants to play lol.. So I only play here. I find though, when I do get the rare chance to play on the board, I'm not as capable... Like there is somehow a difference in thinking - I think for me it has to do with the view angle of the board.. Anyone else have similar experience?
Winning a tournament online maybe gets you some comments but they are without pure human emotion. If you win a tournament OTB, you get applause and cheers.
If you have trouble adjusting to either method, you should spend more time using that method in order to better adjust. (Practicing only on a digital board means you have to work harder to see pieces OTB the way you want to.)
Most people start on OTB, I know I did.
Doesn't mouse pad material tend to become uneven and difficult to flatten? I find that distracting in OTB play.
stuzzicadenti wrote:
especially the king and queen. lol. :)
moving pieces on a board is too much exercise for the average chess player.
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I started playing online chess in the mid-90s and soon gave it up. I got tired of rude, smart ass comments and people disconnecting, etc. I found the whole excercise to be very impersonal. I can see by some of the comments in these forums and elsewhere that, twenty years later, online decorum hasn't improve much if at all.
It's amazing how anonimity can oftentimes bring out the worst in people, saying things online they wouldn't dream of saying face-to-face. So for me, I'll stick with OTB, I enjoy the look and feel of a nice wooden chess set, and sitting across the board from my opponent. Some may see it as a battle of egos, I prefer to see it as a battle of ideas.
You can't drink a beer with a group of laptops and smartphones while discussing games with them after a tournament. So no.
eciruam wrote:
imkan125 wrote:
Technology change is merciless, the wooden boards have lived their lives. They are going to get obsolete anyhow whether somebody likes or not, yes many old generations will be having nostalgia about it but I don't see any future for wooden board chess in coming decades. And yes you can play with your oppnents face to face using two laptops on a single table and can see each other's face expressions, guys we live in 21st cetury where everything is getting computerized or in electronic form and chess is definitely one of them.
What would be the point of two opponents sitting at a table with two laptops ? Chess is a board game...laptops and computers are only used for correspondance chess ....There might be dedicated chess internet cafes, but chess clubs will always have wooden ( or plastic ) boards.
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last time checked was top player play on wooden boards so how you think they gonna be obliterated by online chess i mean wtf???? throll thread
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