I wrote the following in my profile, and pasted it below. Are these good ideas for turn-based games? If anyone is interested, I welcome challenges - just send my a message before hand, include the idea in your game name, or simply use the message box once we start to tell me what kind of game you're interested in. The only thing is that my time is limited, so I only play four games at once. So I might have to postpone your challenge but I will certainly take it up once I finish up an active game.
Any comments about my ideas are definitely welcome!
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I really like chess.com over all, and mostly I play "turn-based" or "on-line" as they call it. My philosophy about turn-based ratings is that they're ok as they give a general idea of who you want to play against, but the ratings are in part a function of how much research you do that is specific to the game (which is by the way specifically allowed according to chess.com rules - just no chess engines), and how much time you spend contemplating each move.
So, if you challenge me, we can either play seriously, with no chat specific to the game, or else I also welcome games for practice and learning - these can be unrated if you wish.
There are many ways to play and I welcome all of them - just let me know in your challenge how you want to play. I'm always interested in the following (rated or unrated):
1) Openings - either practicing them without looking up things, or else using the game as an opportunity to research opening lines as we play. We can agree to a draw once it gets to a middle game, or when one of us clearly blundered (hence probably unrated). And then there's also the possibility to rematch and try again,since the "game" will be only 10 to 15 moves.
2) Chatty games - we both chat about what our strategy is as the game progresses (again, probably unrated). This would be similary to a friendly non-competive OTB game between friends where we share ideas about the game as it progreses, such as "I see you have a discovered check threat - I think this last move was my only defence - but did you see a better way out for me?" Or, "you do see that I have a mate in one threat right now, right?"
3) Treating turn-based aka. on-line games as a gentleman / gentlewoman agreement to spend only a certain amount of time thinking about each move. For example, when the opponent makes a move, I note the time or use a stop-watch software to say, limit the time-per-move to 2 minutes (min for me) or up to 20 minutes or whatever. No conditional moves, and no-fair looking at the game after you have made your move.
LIVE CHESS: Although I want to get some OTB experience, it would be also nice to play a live game on-line. Probably 30 moves per game minimum, but 60 minutes per game would be closer to a real tournament game. We would have to set up in advance via messaging a mutual game time when we can turn off our phones and significant others (is that possible?) and be free of interruptions.
Sounds too complicated. What happened to Let's Play Chess?
I wrote the following in my profile, and pasted it below. Are these good ideas for turn-based games? If anyone is interested, I welcome challenges - just send my a message before hand, include the idea in your game name, or simply use the message box once we start to tell me what kind of game you're interested in. The only thing is that my time is limited, so I only play four games at once. So I might have to postpone your challenge but I will certainly take it up once I finish up an active game.
Any comments about my ideas are definitely welcome!
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I really like chess.com over all, and mostly I play "turn-based" or "on-line" as they call it. My philosophy about turn-based ratings is that they're ok as they give a general idea of who you want to play against, but the ratings are in part a function of how much research you do that is specific to the game (which is by the way specifically allowed according to chess.com rules - just no chess engines), and how much time you spend contemplating each move.
So, if you challenge me, we can either play seriously, with no chat specific to the game, or else I also welcome games for practice and learning - these can be unrated if you wish.
There are many ways to play and I welcome all of them - just let me know in your challenge how you want to play. I'm always interested in the following (rated or unrated):
1) Openings - either practicing them without looking up things, or else using the game as an opportunity to research opening lines as we play. We can agree to a draw once it gets to a middle game, or when one of us clearly blundered (hence probably unrated). And then there's also the possibility to rematch and try again,since the "game" will be only 10 to 15 moves.
2) Chatty games - we both chat about what our strategy is as the game progresses (again, probably unrated). This would be similary to a friendly non-competive OTB game between friends where we share ideas about the game as it progreses, such as "I see you have a discovered check threat - I think this last move was my only defence - but did you see a better way out for me?" Or, "you do see that I have a mate in one threat right now, right?"
3) Treating turn-based aka. on-line games as a gentleman / gentlewoman agreement to spend only a certain amount of time thinking about each move. For example, when the opponent makes a move, I note the time or use a stop-watch software to say, limit the time-per-move to 2 minutes (min for me) or up to 20 minutes or whatever. No conditional moves, and no-fair looking at the game after you have made your move.
LIVE CHESS: Although I want to get some OTB experience, it would be also nice to play a live game on-line. Probably 30 moves per game minimum, but 60 minutes per game would be closer to a real tournament game. We would have to set up in advance via messaging a mutual game time when we can turn off our phones and significant others (is that possible?) and be free of interruptions.