Chess Match Thread

[Siro]

1. Nf3 d5
2. d4 Nc6
3. Nc3 e5
4. dxe5 Nxe5
5. Nxe5 Qd6
6. Bf4 Qc5
7. Nxd5 Be6
8. c4


I'm going to play some basketball. I'll be back in a bit.

 

[babe]

1. Nf3 d5
2. d4 Nc6
3. Nc3 e5
4. dxe5 Nxe5
5. Nxe5 Qd6
6. Bf4 Qc5
7. Nxd5 Be6
8. c4


I'm going to play some basketball. I'll be back in a bit.

Queenside castle. . . .

what's the notation for that? Kc1(Rd1)?

 

[LogGrad98]

Queenside castle. . . .

0-0-0

 

[babe]

0-0-0

not sure if you're thinking I'm being even stupider than I've been????

 

[LogGrad98]

not sure if you're thinking I'm being even stupider than I've been????

Not at all, just helping with the notation.

 

[babe]

Not at all, just helping with the notation.

Thanks. . . . I did have a wondering if that might be the case. What if it were open and someone did a kingside castle?

 

[LogGrad98]

Thanks. . . . I did have a wondering if that might be the case. What if it were open and someone did a kingside castle?

Kingside is 0-0. Queenside is 0-0-0.

 

[franklin]

I played more safely than I usually do and it threw me off some. Meh it was fun. I was happy with it overall especially playing a line I don't normally play.

It's an odd format too. Interested to see how you normally play.

 

[LogGrad98]

It's an odd format too. Interested to see how you normally play.

For a while I tried putting the pieces up on my chessboard but that wasn't always possible so I just ended up using the diagram in the games. It is a bit strange playing black from white's perspective the whole game.

 

[babe]

Kingside is 0-0. Queenside is 0-0-0.

Thanks.

All my life I've had this idiot/savant phenomenon going on, starting out anything new in severe disorientation mode and having to upgrade on the steep learning curve. . . .

being able to laugh is for me the equivalent of sheer genius.

 

[babe]

For a while I tried putting the pieces up on my chessboard but that wasn't always possible so I just ended up using the diagram in the games. It is a bit strange playing black from white's perspective the whole game.

yah and it makes for some strange moves sometimes, too.

 

[franklin]

For a while I tried putting the pieces up on my chessboard but that wasn't always possible so I just ended up using the diagram in the games. It is a bit strange playing black from white's perspective the whole game.

Didn't think of it that way, but now that I have that might make you a better player.

Back in the day before I drank and was a bawse playing online poker I sometimes put up a sticky note over my cards and played completely in the dark solely for the different perspective it brought. Chess and poker are different games but being able to see both perspectives is pretty much the same.