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Vilkacis wrote:Heh. It's been a fair while since I've played too, but nowhere near that long!Figarou wrote:This is what I get for not playing chess for over 25 years.
Blame the video games for that.
-- Vilkacis
My father got me into the game when I was 8 years old. I played every now and then until the Atari 2600 came into my life at 13. Thats when I stopped playing chess. I'm 38 now. Soooooooo..38-13= 25 years.
But I still wanted a werewolf chess set after all those years.
Heh. I haven't even been alive that long.Figarou wrote:My father got me into the game when I was 8 years old. I played every now and then until the Atari 2600 came into my life at 13. Thats when I stopped playing chess. I'm 38 now. Soooooooo..38-13= 25 years.
My father taught me how to play as well. I don't remember how young I was, though. I do remember that it was a very long time before I was able to play him without a handicap.
Once it got to the point where I could beat him on occasion, he did a terrible thing to me: if he was losing and couldn't see any way to win, he'd knock over all the pieces and capitulate. Since he was the only person I ever played, I rarely got to play a winning end-game. I think you can understand why, after a long time of doing this, I developed a very weak end-game. Heh.
He took as much advantage of that as he could.
What a thing to do to a kid.
Anyway, I eventually turned to the Internet to find games, and later found people at school who would play. That helped.
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Vilkacis wrote:Heh. I haven't even been alive that long.Figarou wrote:My father got me into the game when I was 8 years old. I played every now and then until the Atari 2600 came into my life at 13. Thats when I stopped playing chess. I'm 38 now. Soooooooo..38-13= 25 years.
My father taught me how to play as well. I don't remember how young I was, though. I do remember that it was a very long time before I was able to play him without a handicap.
Once it got to the point where I could beat him on occasion, he did a terrible thing to me: if he was losing and couldn't see any way to win, he'd knock over all the pieces and capitulate. Since he was the only person I ever played, I rarely got to play a winning end-game. I think you can understand why, after a long time of doing this, I developed a very weak end-game. Heh.
He took as much advantage of that as he could.
What a thing to do to a kid.
Anyway, I eventually turned to the Internet to find games, and later found people at school who would play. That helped.
-- Vilkacis
I played some of the kids at school. I remember winning the game in only 5 moves!! After that, nobody wanted to play me.
I've done similar ^_^Figarou wrote:I played some of the kids at school. I remember winning the game in only 5 moves!! After that, nobody wanted to play me.
There was someone I always played every day at lunch. We tended to attract a small crowd on occasion. One time someone in that crowd wanted to play, so we did. I obliterated him with the four-move checkmate.
I didn't get any challenges after that; although, I did get a reputation for being a really good chess player (perhaps more of one than I deserved).
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Oh wait...I meant four moves. Not five. I miscounted.Vilkacis wrote:I've done similar ^_^Figarou wrote:I played some of the kids at school. I remember winning the game in only 5 moves!! After that, nobody wanted to play me.
There was someone I always played every day at lunch. We tended to attract a small crowd on occasion. One time someone in that crowd wanted to play, so we did. I obliterated him with the four-move checkmate.
I didn't get any challenges after that; although, I did get a reputation for being a really good chess player (perhaps more of one than I deserved).
-- Vilkacis
Here is the moves. It only works if they don't catch it and they don't block the path with any other pieces.
1st move e2-e3
2nd move f1-c4
3rd move d1-f3
4th move f3-f7 checkmate if the king can't move or no other piece can take the queen.
Yup, yup. That's the one; although, I tend to move e2-e4 first instead.Figarou wrote:Oh wait...I meant four moves. Not five. I miscounted.
Here is the moves. It only works if they don't catch it and they don't block the path with any other pieces.
1st move e2-e3
2nd move f1-c4
3rd move d1-f3
4th move f3-f7 checkmate if the king can't move or no other piece can take the queen.
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ah yes, i did not relize that little bishop till now, thank you of kind sirVilkacis wrote:I do not wish to be mean, but, if you move there, my Bishop shall do most terrible things to your Queen.Searif Bogard wrote:C6-C5
(Psst. If you want, I'll let you take that move back. This time...)
-- Vilkacis
A5-A4