go away chessattackgirl lol
I want to play a game...
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Feb 26, 2015
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#4
What format? (Online, Live - and then what time control, etc?)
Would you be willing to have the game(s) published for the Chess Improver group?
Jigsaw! Run!
Play correspondence chess 
Online turn-based (say three days per move)?
Yes, publishing is fine with me.
unrated or rated is fine
Feb 28, 2015
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#8
Feel free to challenge me ... make it rated if you'd like a shot to gain some points, assuming I'm still higher rated than you.
I don't think you have anything to worry about. I'm going to get ny number of games down a bit then maybe we can play. Also lutak.
XPLAYA is just scaring me.
You can play me. I am underrated here. Don't worry. The game should be unrated.
OK. Thanks. Let me get my number of games down. I just timed out the first time in my life.
Mar 1, 2015
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#12
Yeah, same here, I have too many games going as it is, but some should be finishing soon.
let's play forum chess. i'll be white. 1.e4
g-man15 wrote:
let's play forum chess. i'll be white. 1.e4
What is forum chess? Oh, dare I ask.
well, I just played 1.e4 now you post you move (you said you wanted to play a game starting with 1.e4 e5, so I assume that's what you are gonna play)
Mar 1, 2015
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#16
Forum chess is what causes all of the paid staff and especially the founders and investors of Chess.com to step back, look at all the work, and the expense of time and money, that has gone into creating all of Chess.com, and smack themselves in their foreheads and say to each other "This is all we had to do? Just create a plain text forum???"
I was mostly joking, but i have played several games in a similar format. I once played someone who i'm still not sure who it was. one day in class, i noticed a letter and a number on my desk. i realized that it was chess notation (i beleive the move was c4) so i wrote down e5 as my answer. we continued like that, each day being a new move, until the desk was apperently cleaned and the game was, unfortunatly, lost.
Mar 1, 2015
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#18
g-man15 wrote:
I was mostly joking, but i have played several games in a similar format. I once played someone who i'm still not sure who it was. one day in class, i noticed a letter and a number on my desk. i realized that it was chess notation (i beleive the move was c4) so i wrote down e5 as my answer. we continued like that, each day being a new move, until the desk was apperently cleaned and the game was, unfortunatly, lost.
Your suggestion of forum chess is an example of how an object designed for one specialized purpose may be used instead for another, entirely different, specialized purpose. This is studied as sort of a paradox of UI/UX design, and there's a growing body of philosophy dealing with the subject. The canonical example is the briefcase, designed especially to keep paperwork, etc, dry or otherwise free from damage during transport, yet while waiting for a bus or train, a person may set the briefcase on end and use it as a seat.
In this particular case, the issue isn't so much using a forum to play chess, it's using the forum to play chess in spite of the fact that two or three clicks away is a system especially designed for that purpose. This is also studied, and overlaps with another interesting topic commonly referenced by the clause "when all you have is a hammer, all problems resemble nails" ... but here, replace "all you have" with "you exclusively prefer".
It's just interesting, and is a good lesson to startup entrepreneurs that the minimal viable product is almost always smaller than presumed.
jlconn wrote:
g-man15 wrote:
I was mostly joking, but i have played several games in a similar format. I once played someone who i'm still not sure who it was. one day in class, i noticed a letter and a number on my desk. i realized that it was chess notation (i beleive the move was c4) so i wrote down e5 as my answer. we continued like that, each day being a new move, until the desk was apperently cleaned and the game was, unfortunatly, lost.
Your suggestion of forum chess is an example of how an object designed for one specialized purpose may be used instead for another, entirely different, specialized purpose. This is studied as sort of a paradox of UI/UX design, and there's a growing body of philosophy dealing with the subject. The canonical example is the briefcase, designed especially to keep paperwork, etc, dry or otherwise free from damage during transport, yet while waiting for a bus or train, a person may set the briefcase on end and use it as a seat.
In this particular case, the issue isn't so much using a forum to play chess, it's using the forum to play chess in spite of the fact that two or three clicks away is a system especially designed for that purpose. This is also studied, and overlaps with another interesting topic commonly referenced by the clause "when all you have is a hammer, all problems resemble nails" ... but here, replace "all you have" with "you exclusively prefer".
It's just interesting, and is a good lesson to startup entrepreneurs that the minimal viable product is almost always smaller than presumed.
Indeed.
jlconn wrote:
g-man15 wrote:
I was mostly joking, but i have played several games in a similar format. I once played someone who i'm still not sure who it was. one day in class, i noticed a letter and a number on my desk. i realized that it was chess notation (i beleive the move was c4) so i wrote down e5 as my answer. we continued like that, each day being a new move, until the desk was apperently cleaned and the game was, unfortunatly, lost.
Your suggestion of forum chess is an example of how an object designed for one specialized purpose may be used instead for another, entirely different, specialized purpose. This is studied as sort of a paradox of UI/UX design, and there's a growing body of philosophy dealing with the subject. The canonical example is the briefcase, designed especially to keep paperwork, etc, dry or otherwise free from damage during transport, yet while waiting for a bus or train, a person may set the briefcase on end and use it as a seat.
In this particular case, the issue isn't so much using a forum to play chess, it's using the forum to play chess in spite of the fact that two or three clicks away is a system especially designed for that purpose. This is also studied, and overlaps with another interesting topic commonly referenced by the clause "when all you have is a hammer, all problems resemble nails" ... but here, replace "all you have" with "you exclusively prefer".
It's just interesting, and is a good lesson to startup entrepreneurs that the minimal viable product is almost always smaller than presumed.
All I said was "I want to play a game"
ROFL
Global Thermonuclear War
just teasing (movie quote)
I want to play a nice game of chess. I want you to open with 1.e4 and I respond with 1.e5. I do not care if it is rated or not. Thanks.