When you make a challenge on Chess.com, click “advanced options” and you’ll see a drop down called “I play as…” That’s where you set what color you get.
thank you.
do games save automatically or how does that work?
i mean i don’t think i just want to be logged into that site for the next week (or fifteen minutes that it takes me to lose).
ok, i think i figured it out.
just need to wait for mal to move, right?
I’m there too. I got your challenge and made my first move there. If you want to continue playing there, we can do it. If you’d rather sign up over at chess.com, we can do that too (I’m in the process of signing up there). Just let me know.
I’ll be away from my computer most of the rest of the morning and early afternoon, but if you want to do some quick moves, about 3:00 - 4:00 is good, and early evening.
Gameknot works for me, but whichever site you prefer is fine. What is the difference between the two sites?
Moved… Don’t forget to hit “Submit” after moving your piece or nothing will happen.
Hamlet, your move didn’t show up on Gameknot. I’m not sure what happened there but its still showing as your move.
They have a Submit button there too…
Gameknot is a small site that’s basically just a GUI. Chess.com has professional articles, videos, game databases, and forums.
More importantly, chess.com has a conditional move option. So you if you decide to, say, trade queens, you can set it to make a move automatically after your opponent recaptures. I’ve done this when I have a mate in 5 so that it doesn’t take 10 days to finish a won game.
It’s useful any time your opponent has a more-or-less forced move, so that you can have it play your follow-up automatically and thereby save a day or two.
Gameknot has conditional moves too - much the same system.
In other news, peekercpa isn’t talking smack any more. (But chess.com is down for maintenance.)
Chess.com just went down. They say they will be up by tommorrow morning. Hamlet and I each got three moves in.
This is already unfamiliar territory for me, openings wise. Philidor’s defense, which I know almost nothing about playing against. Looks like it will be a fun game.
I went to read up more on the opening online after Hamlet’s third move, and then I came back to chess.com and it showed that it was down.
And I’m clearly winning.
Damn. My moves have an actual name (who the hell is Phildor?) AND you know them? gulp I may be out of my depth.
Time to cram.
in other freaking news peek got his ass handed to him by a clearly superior player.
the only chance i had was if mal would have accepted a draw before the game started. man, i suck at chess. and a lot of other things as well. but gd it was fun, none the less.
i look forward to learning from my betters.
I did a google search on the moves to see what came up. I didn’t know before hand what name they had, lol. I know Ruy Lopez and the Sicilian, as far as names go but not a lot else.
I did PM **Cort **to set the game.
As the SDMB does not allow images I will mention here what everyone is missing, over there at the Giraffe Boards:
A tool like the Chess Diagram Generator works by creating an image and a link to allow the opponent to make the next move and generate a new image and link combo.
http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-diagram-generator.php
Over here we are only able to post the images, but not a direct link to the “next move”, if my opponents go for it then I will post the link to the complete game.
i don’t think we can post my game without a second link. it was definitely nsfw and probably would be rated nc 17 by the mpaa.
Umm…we can just take the PGN. I’ve never seen a game that’s inappropriate for the internet, and you can’t learn how to improve until I tell you what you did wrong.
I should also mention that
Researching the opening while playing it [SIZE=“6”]is cheating[/SIZE]
You can’t say “We’re playing the Philidor Defense” and then go look it up. You either know it or you lose. No research while the game is in progress. Wait til it’s over, then look it up.
Really. Ok. I’ve played correspondence chess before, and we were allowed to look at the ECO and such as long as we weren’t using an engine to do analysis, which I wasn’t.
You should have made it clear what kind of rule set you were expecting us to use. You said earlier:
If you want me to forfeit the game because I entered the moves into google and it told me it was the Philidor defense then fine. Sheesh. The responses were pretty obvious anyway.
I don’t know my Pavlov’s Gambit from my elbow, and will just nod sagely if you try any of dat shit on me! 
It’s not cheating to go look up what opening you’re playing. It is cheating to look up what to do next. Saying “Oh look, we’re playing the Philidor” is OK. Saying “Wikipedia says I should play Nf6 next” is definitely, definitely not OK.
ETA: Using an analysis board means setting up the position, either live or on the computer, and working out variations by yourself. Unassisted. With no engine help whatsoever. That’s OK. Everyone does that in correspondence chess. But you have to use your own brain and your own chessic sense (heh) to figure out what lines to play.