I used to play chess a lot. Learned when I was about 9 and my dad had a nice set and would give it to me the first time I could beat him. I think I was around 14 when I did. Never met many good players until I got online, then found out I wasn’t all that great. I still have my dad’s nice chess set though.
I haven’t played much recently, I’m lacking in tactical skill, but I think I’m good in endgames for someone around my skill (1350 ish on ICC). Online everyone is into fast games which I’m really bad at (1000ish in bullet, 1000ish in blitz, 1350 in standard).
I was a uscf member but never actually got into playing otb tournaments, I might if I can find out how to get a colorado membership cause all of the local tournaments require both. I had a chess teacher on ICC for a couple months about five years ago.
I’m significantly better at kriegspiel than regular chess, mainly because other people are worse ;). Also I invented a bizarre chess variant that is on chessvariants.com.
Lol, I’ve never played Krieg over the board I imagine it would be hard. Its a lot easier to do on a chess server. My main flaw in krieg is drawing a lot in endgames, its really easy to mess up and draw if you aren’t careful with all the clues as to where the enemy king is. I try to triple my rooks and queens like RQR and use that as a battering ram frequently.
You could do it by email with an impartial judge receiving the moves and sending clues onward, but you have to inform everyone what set of rules you follow. (ICC krieg has its own rule set more fitting for online but it doesn’t give you information about how many times your opponent has made an illegal move.)
I have one of the very few books on krieg somewhere, but it applies mostly to the european rules so it was slightly less useful. Knight check is about the most useful clue in ICC rules though.
I’ve played and run a fair amount of kriegspiel. It does need concentration - I use 3 boards at a club, with both players facing outwards from the master board.
My rules would be:
any number of attempts at moving, but the first one you try that is legal you must play
you can ask for pawn captures (any?), but don’t have to make one
referee announces captures (not the piece, just the square)
referee announces checks and from which direction (rank / file / knight)
Hmm. I’ve never formally trained, but I’ve had some interesting games. I’ve played a couple of friends from work who did well in high school (If I remember I’ll ask their ratings). In any case, I’ve never lost a game to either. However, I have another friend who gets constantly owned by the aformentioned two, but he always manages to whoop my ass.
glee, I’d love to play you sometime and get an honest critique of my skill (or lack thereof).
Have a look at the thread in MPSIMS between myself and Edward The Head; make sure you understand the chess notation; start a new thread and make your first move as White. (And say if you want comments, from both me + spectators…)
A straightdope simul eh? I might start a game with you as well. I drew IM Schroer once in a simul. It was one of those miracle games where I didn’t make any huge blunders at least. But he offered the draw so I don’t know if he actually was winning or just didn’t think he could produce the win in time.
I need to stop trying to play blitz online, I just don’t respond well to time pressure. I did have a great game on ICC last night that was blitz though. It was KRR and pawns versus KR and pawns in the endgame and kinda hard to keep going at blitz speed but I won it. Otherwise though, blitz ruins endgames which are becoming my favorite part of the game (I know, I’m weird).
I’d better stick at two games, since :o I’m playing blindfold. :eek:
So give Lazlo a while to get started (he did ask first!), otherwise start a thread yourself and play White.
Endings are great. I teach all my students the basics as soon as possible.
Try these two - just a king and one or two pawns each, but both have loads of play:
White King c4 pawn e4
Black King e8 pawn e6
White to play and win
White King f4 pawns d5,e6
Black King f6 pawn d6,f5
I’ve always been an okay player, I excel at gaining position in the opening often trading material to gain positional advantage, but I quickly find myself unable to hold the position. My ranking is unofficial but it is probably around 1400 or so. Or at least it used to be, haven’t played seriously in a while.
It’s all the fault of the darn time zones. I’m at GMT -7 and I believe I was sleeping while you were waiting for my response. What is it across the pond?
