Anyone play?
I found this rather nice free chess program recently
It's over 40 years since I played regularly ( wasn't good then) but the program has provided me with hours of entertainment
http://computerchessonline.net/chess-online-against-computer/
I like this chess video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgeYScYe8wI
banana I've just sent you a challenge!
Ah, hah! just received and made a move, ah and you have too! 3 moves a day, interesting..
bloody J R R Tolkien devising not just one, but four wholly pointless 'new' languages! I ask you - was there ever anyone more short of something to do than that?
Wasn't he a professor of languages? To him it might have been a little side hobby, a bit like when an engineer tinkers with engines in his garage at the weekends, or when a computer programmer makes a home made website in their spare time.
I read a comment somewhere that he came up with Middle Earth as a setting for his languages to live in, rather than the other way around.
On chess.com I'm bignosebignose if anyone thinks they're hard enough.
challenge sent!
On chess.com I'm Excalibur.
(I'm not really but there's bound to be one)
arghh! Sorry bignose, I allowed our game to timeout just when it was hotting up.
KB-KR3.
Yes, it was interesting. I used to play in a pub regularly in the 80s, but then new management put a stop to it on the ground that the chess players weren't drinking enough. This was true of some, but the ones who were drinking a lot (such as me) more than made up for it. These days I stick to the internet which is better than a draughty church hall or some such place.Chess is a hard game to get people following as you have to reach a certain standard in order to appreciate and enjoy playing and watching. That's true of all countries, so I suppose lack of funding must be the problem in England as the article suggests.
I discovered that there's a weekly celebrity chess game played live on Radio 4 these days. It's marginally less informative about chess than the cookery demonstrations they broadcast on Woman's Hour are about culinary techniques.
I've heard wine tasting on the radio before. It was, erm, insufferable is too kind.
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I discovered that there's a weekly celebrity chess game played live on Radio 4 these days
Desert Island Mates
You'll be sorry when Home Front comes back.
I discovered that there's a weekly celebrity chess game played live on Radio 4 these days
I'm a celebrity, check me out of this hotel?
The grand mufti is apparently not a fan, claims the game is unislamic. I'd bet, like me, he's just not any good at it.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/chess-forbidden-in-islam-rules-saudi-arabia-grand-mufti
Odd. Chess is strategic and not dependent chance: yet more open mindedness from people whose mindset is that existence itself is a burden. They remind me of Swift's Tale of a Tub.
Apparently chess encourages people to place bets.
No, I didn't know that either, until the Mufti said.