Stuff Non-Chess Players Say

Sundresses.

Awesome.. where's that like button

BigLew wrote:

megadroid wrote:

Can a king and queen make more pawns?

Of course that is how you teach children, especially girls, to set up the pieces at the begining of the game. So they can remember.

1st: Tell them that the king and queen are geting married and the queen's shoes have to match her dress.  (queen on own color square)

2nd: they get maried by the bisshop. (bishops are a adjacent to the royal family)

3rd: Then after they get married they run off on a horse to live in a castle. So that the knight and rook go on the next sqaures.  

4th: They live hapily ever after and have 8 little children  happily playing in the front yard.  So pawns go on the next row in front of the other pieces. 

Taught my daughter to set the pieces up ike that when she was about 4 years old , Now a fifth grader she has never forgotten.  

I don't know but there's a quote button if you ever manage to find that. ha. 

well, thats how you teach peope to use the internet. lol

Hmmm.. am not newto internet.. just new to mobile Internet

http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/+EV-Cartoon-of-the-Day-212_78100/

There are 400 possibilities in the first move, not 200.

Have a look at the one where I lost in 7 moves.

http://www.chess.com/blog/jivvi/not-the-best-game-ive-ever-played2

That's beautiful. 

Whether you're actually new or not, this is too good not to pass on:

Very colorful, the truth is out there!

"I found it on the internet so it must be true!"

The more I find the more I believe.

My neighbor, who's in her 70's, and likes to play dominos, said to me on Saturday about chess; "Why would I want to play a game that takes 3 days to move?"

I said; "What"

She said; "it takes days to move"

Me: "No it doesn't. Most casual games last last between 10 minutes and an hour, average of 40 moves a game."

Her: "Well I don't suppose I've ever seen people play chess then. Except on TV where it takes them days to make a move. "

Me: "Why did you watch a chess match that took days to move? Besides chess has been rarely shown on American television. In the 19th century before they had clocks some people might have stalled for days, but they didn't have tv then either."

Her: "Yes they did have tv in the 19th century, I watched Fischer play that Soviet guy back in the '70s. "

Me: "That was the 1900's not the 19th ceyntury, and they had clocks and it didn't take days to move though the games may have taken a few hours."

Her: "yeah, you're right 1900's, but chess is still boring"

Me: "I find it facinating."

Her: "To each his own."

We changed the topic to what to cook for Easter.

Of course I didn't even mention her that I play online chess.com chess on my phone and it sometimes takes days to move. LOL

"why did you move it two squares ahead? i thought you said "one square per move"

Originally, † is check, †† is double check, (†) is discovered check, and ‡ is checkmate, but the dagger symbols were replaced by +, and the double dagger by #, due to being easily reproducible on a computer keyboard. There was a brief period of ambiguity where some used ++ to mean checkmate, but I don't think that was ever standard. Also, I've noticed that in PGN files, a single + without brackets is also used for check, whether double, discovered or otherwise, which is probably just a limitation of the PGN format and isn't really ambiguous, but curiously, # is also used for stalemate, which to me at least, seems very strange.

Nice username ;D

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Easter meals yummy :)

Maybe you should've mentioned the chess.com app! We need more women chess players! She might thank you one day. Yeah it is a misunderstanding that chess takes "days" but you just change the time control. That's all. It's not like you're thinking for hours about one move. 

I'm thinking about starting a campaign on my college campus next semester to promote more women chess players. Any bright ideas anyone? 

That board looks right to me. Usually on (for example) a wooden board the light squares are the same colour as the area surrounding the squares, but not so in this case. The grey squares are clearly darker than the red squares, and look like they may have originally been blacker and since faded somewhat. In any case, light certainly is on the right, although the light squares stand out from the background more than the dark ones, which is the opposite of the norm.