Any Chess fans?

I just watched Pawn Sacrifice...the Bobby Fischer story. Toby Maguire did an excellent job playing the nut case and chess genius. I'm pretty familiar with the ups and downs of Fischer. I've read a lot about his life and games. To be honest those guys play at a level I can't understand, but I like to try. Anyhoo good movie.

It's been a long time since I've played a good game of chess.

I am absolutely useless at thinking multiple moves ahead in chess and so anyone with rudimentary motor skills could beat me. Although I did like that episode of Columbo where the deaf chess guy murders (or almost murders) his opponent. 

Hi,
 
See the movie "Searching for Bobby Fisher" ... about kids and chess, with Lawrence Fishburne

Mesh

clintmartin
May I suggest FICS the free internet chess club. I'm there a lot.
 
http://www.freechess.org/

Hi Clint, I'm a huge chess fan and do love to play (not all that good, but love to play). I play at chess.com (free site, but also has a membership version) and generally play 5 minute games (I like the rush of quick thinking.....lol). A lot of very good players come in there..........and I usually get my butt kicked. :) 
 
I'd love to play a game with you or anyone in here.  

We will make that happen. I play 3 minute chess a lot, but 5 will be fine.

sharke
I think it's probably more a case of your laptop being 600,000,000 times more powerful than the little handheld electronic dealie you had as a kid. 

Perhaps but it was supposed to be a pretty good one and it wasn't easy to beat. I'd also like to think MS Chess isn't designed to totally use all available processing power to wollop us at the beginner levels.
 
Seriously my strategies just got ultra sucky. Thing is I make it REALLY hard for the computer to win. Like the matches get right down to a few pieces and generally end up in my king getting chased around by a couple adversary pieces until I'm blocked in.
 
Total suxxors but I do take a little satisfaction in at least annoying the computer... even though it has no feelings... but I pretend like does.
 
lulz

clintmartin
There are some reports from the so-called scientist that link musicians and chess. It's an interesting theory.
I would think a lot of the thinking process in chess, and looking forward when planning a mix or arrangement would be  similar. There is also a trend of the top players in the world being very good at poker.
I'm not very good at any of it, but I have fun with the music and chess.

+1
I've also read somewhere that some very good mathematicians have been very good musicians and there's a direct correlation between the two.
 
BTW, Clint is a very good chess player....he's leading so far 4 to 1........to be contd.   

Any Chess fans?

 
Um...let me get back to you on that....
 

I used to love playing Chess . In Junior High I wound up on the Chess Team as Jr Varsity  .
I guess i was team filler since I wasn't the smartest nor was I the dumbest ...that latter was soon to follow ....
Playing Chess was the last innocent thing i did before I wound up going to high school  , falling in with the wrong crowd and becoming a total garbage head in the early 70's
 
Kenny