You should all learn bridge, it's a strategic, somewhat teamplay card game. This Fogey I know did competitive Magic: THe Gathering tourneys, and apparently, he said, his Bridge play helped him quite a bit.
I"m only a very very crappy novice, but it's pretty fun. Think, reverse Hearts.
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Funny i know how to play Bridge and just about any other card game out there. I also enjoy a good of chess wheter it be online or on a board with pieces.
When I first read the topic title I'm like, "has Iconoclast lost it? no one doesn't play chess" Then I realized you meant online :p
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I don't play chess. Never have. Don't know how. Never had any interest to lean. Ok, well maybe I'm kinda curious, but it just seems like there are so many rules, I have a hard enough time with checkers.
Steam checkers anyone?? I haven't won.... in like... ever, but I'm up for a good clean loss!
You should all learn bridge
The true old fogey!
The only people I know who play bridge are 70+ ^_^
[size=8]Not to knock it, I'd probably enjoy it if I knew how to play.[/size]
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No, no, that's quite alright. I think that estimation is quite correct. I think it's mainly the euro in my eurasian that makes my dad think that anything sorta british/european/stodgy is good has led to me being taught bridge.
woh now i'm 20 and i know how to play bridge and i rather enjoy it too. Heck i've even played as a substitute for a bridge group my mom and grandmother are a part of twice now.
the only thing i'm still getting used to is the bidding and answering other than that i'm good
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Dang, playing in the women's group,that's hardcore bridge right there. And yeah,t he tough part about the game is teh bidding and all the freaking conventions.
You should all learn bridge
The true old fogey!
The only people I know who play bridge are 70+ ^_^
[size=8]Not to knock it, I'd probably enjoy it if I knew how to play.[/size]
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^^
the first thing I thought when niteowl said play bridge was LOL, the second was of my late grandmother who always used to play it ^_^
When I first read the topic title I'm like, "has Iconoclast lost it? no one doesn't play chess" Then I realized you meant online :p
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I don't play chess. Never have. Don't know how. Never had any interest to lean. Ok, well maybe I'm kinda curious, but it just seems like there are so many rules, I have a hard enough time with checkers.
Steam checkers anyone?? I haven't won.... in like... ever, but I'm up for a good clean loss!
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The rules of chess are the surprisingly similiar to checkers, its about simple movement patterns to remove pieces. But instead of only having one type of movement with possible combos, chess has different movement abilitys for each type of piece but no funky stuff like combos (a few special moves are the exception). And one move constitutes your entire turn.
So for example, the little dudes (pawns), are able to move 1 space forward at any time or 2 spaces if that particular pawn hasn't moved yet this game. Pawns can only attack 1 unit diagonally and towards the enemy players side of the board (no backwards diagonal attack - in fact they can never move back) and hence make slightly clumsy pieces - but due to their number (8) and alignment are some of the most powerful players on the board.
In contrast, the queen is only given once to each player, but is able to move in any linear direction (can't change directions during the move, duh) without limit (except the 8 square limit of the field, duh) - so she can move diagonally, horizontally or vertically across the field. However all figures need a clear path of movement over enemy and friendly pieces, unless they intend to take said enemy piece.
All pieces are taken by simply being able to move a figure of yours onto them. So if you have a line from your queen to a target piece, you're able to take it. Or if your opponent moves a piece within 1 unit forward-diagonally (its simpler than it sounds :p ) of a pawn of yours. Theres 3 more pieces (4 with the King), but I'm just trying to get the idea across here.
Chess is really worth learning, not because it proves wether you're smart or anything (high level chessplay is merely good pattern recognition), but because learning chess is a great mental exercise. The beauty of the game will slowly become evident as you begin to see the inter-dependencies all 16 pieces (of 5 different types) on the board develope - each one covering an area, a line, a square - threatening or defending a piece, being threatened or defended by another piece, until its one big chain reaction. Thats when you can call chess complicated for a moment. But the rules themselves are easier to learn than those of most card games :)
edit: at a friend's cabin i learned cribbage. i am a beast.
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I play mexican poker like no other, eat that.
If you ask somebody if they're good at chess, almost everyone will say they're "okay." I've found it's usually better to ask if someone knows what en passant is ;)
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Hmm, never thought about that :D and I can say I know what it is :p
Good luck Iconcast, don`t know about playing in less than 10 minutes though my brain wouldn`t cope.... >_<
If you ask somebody if they're good at chess, almost everyone will say they're "okay." I've found it's usually better to ask if someone knows what en passant is ;)
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En passant is good way to figure out how good they are.... another is to get them with "fools mate" thats a cracker :)
Actually the moves I thought of do`nt actually turn out to be fools mate this is.....
(http://www.gothicchess.org/foolsmate.gif)
The one im thinking of is similar but you have the black bishop at C5 and the black queen at F2....anyone know what that is called?
edit: at a friend's cabin i learned cribbage. i am a beast.
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I play mexican poker like no other, eat that.
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at least i can lerk better than you! :ph34r:
The one im thinking of is similar but you have the black bishop at C5 and the black queen at F2....anyone know what that is called?
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I always thought that what you describe was a fool's mate as well. You'd have to be playing someone really stupid for them to end up in the position in your picture.
That's usually my tell on whether someone is a good chess player or not, if they move any pawns besides the king's and queen's within the first eight moves or so. It either means they're clueless at how to handle something as simple as the opening, or that they're very very good and about to try something totally wild that will wipe the floor with me. Almost always, sadly, it's the former.
chess is always better with a hand grenade or two
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Yar. Battlechess 2k4.
PFFT. it's to lull you into a false sense of security, then BAM! face full of sharp objects! or something..
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No no no, you got it all wrong:
BAM! Mammoth tank through concrete wall!
That Chess game in mortal kombat deception is pretty cool since you get to fight over the square and have your mage do a special move like revive or kill a enemy "grunt" or "sorcerer" and you can set up 1 "boobey trap" which when any player lands on it. BEWM say goodbye :D.. but it can be quite annoying when the other sorcerrer teleports your grunt right onto their boobey trap :angry:
but its chess with a twist. Though I prefer regular chess
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Thats an understatement along the lines of "a hermaphrodite is just a girl with a twist". Its a chick with manparts son - and that chess you're talking about is just as weird and disgusting.