Do you have to be very good? I've not played for ages but I know the rules and I played a bit in the past, I'd be interested in joining.
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Do you have to be very good? I've not played for ages but I know the rules and I played a bit in the past, I'd be interested in joining.
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This is about a boardgame, right? You might want to work things out with the Arena staff, because that is also the place for boardgame discussion.
The Entrance Hall also probably isn't a bad place - it might give some newer members a way to feel as if they are more of the community.
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How will be doing this? We should use the Arcade for this, you know, use the Tournament system. Its buggy I know.
EDit.Wont work. It could for other games.
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We could play off-site; I used to frequent www.instantchess.com a few years ago. Just pick a nickname that's not taken and go in. I think if we set up a time we could challenge each other.
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Just have anyone play anyone, keep records and post games here, and eventually there would be something of a consensus over who's the best. Over at TWC, I and Harry Lime beat everyone until we played each other, and he beat me in both legs.
Instantchess, 25 mins each. Copy into a blank textfile, change the extension to .pgn, then open it with something like Winboard.
[White "Arthur Sandmeier"]
[Black "pannonian"]
[Event "InstantChess"]
[WhiteElo "1186"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCause "2"]
[ICEcause "3"]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nc6 4.Nc3 a6 5.Bc4 e6 6.Qe2 Nf6 7.O-O Be7 8.d3 b5 9.Bb3 Bb7 10.d4 c4 11.Rd1 cxb3 12.cxb3 Qc7 13.a4 O-O 14.Ng5 Rfe8 15.Qd3 g6 16.Qg3 Rac8 17.Qh3 Bf8 18.Bf4 e5 19.dxe5 Nxe5 20.Nd5 Bxd5 21.Rxd5 Qd7 22.Rad1 Qxh3 23.Nxh3 Nxd5 24.exd5 Rc2 25.Ng5 Rec8 26.b4 Rxb2 27.g3 Rcc2 28.Be3 Ra2 29.axb5 axb5 30.Bd4 Ng4 31.h3 Nxf2 32.Bxf2 Rxf2 33.Ne4 Rfc2 34.Nf6+ Kh8 35.h4 Re2 36.Rf1 Rg2+ 37.Kh1 Rh2+ 38.Kg1 Rag2# 0-1
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Pan' may have the best answer thus far. My original concept was a PBeM -- but it would seem that others lack patience and perhaps trust in such an approach (which I admit would take some time to resolve).
What say you?
Interested still?
Pan' on track?
I'll put together a list of players soon and we can decide pairings, no pairings or whatever.
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I'm still interested.
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I second this question. I love chess, but I've only done so *very* sparsely in the last few years -- and even when I was playing regularly, I was still never more than an average player.
That being said, I'm definitely interested.
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Hello everyone. There's a Hurricane heading this way, as a lot of you probably already know, and depending on how much damage is sustained here I could be without internet access from a week or two to up to or beyond a month. When the last one hit around here in 05 or 06 (Rita) I believe power to this area wasn't fully restored until almost a month later. If that is the case and you guys decide to start before I return then leave me out or whatever you decide is fine Seamus.
Thanks,
Ichigo
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I would join...
But I better warn you, I am very very very very very very...
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im a bit confused about how this works, but i can play chess....quite roughly....
i'll play,i like chess but i havent played fora while and i just no im going out first...
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I will most definitely have to defend my honour here!
Hopefully it'll work out with time zones and such.
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I'd probably be interested, but I won't be too good at it.....Yeah the hard part would be to find a suitable online chess thing that would allow for this. Also, would we be playing with the timer?
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