Chess Club

[LoveDivine]

I know there are at least a few members in Singles who play chess. I think it would be cool to form an online chess club. I play regularly on chess.com. The app is easy to install on a phone. It could be lots of fun.

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

I'm on chess.com too. So always ready to play. Do you post on there as well?

 

[Sketcher]

Consider me interested.

 

[LoveDivine]

I'm on chess.com too. So always ready to play. Do you post on there as well?

I have a profile on there that I use to play games regularly with friends. I've never really used the other features of the site though. You can send me a challenge if you want. My profile Joliz is not hard to miss. It has a Yankees logo for the avatar lol

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

Who wants to post their elo rating? I bet we got some pretty good players here Mine is less than the default 800 cause i am not very gooood. Also I lost to my friend who used stockfish like 5-6 times in a row which ruined it. I beat him with scholars mate 2nd game then I was like wow man you got really good, didn't realize how easy it was to cheat online:/

 

[SnowyMacie]

I always like playing chess, but I'm not very good so I end up not liking it.

 

[LoveDivine]

I always like playing chess, but I'm not very good so I end up not liking it.

That's okay. We will likely have a range of skilled players. You get better by playing regularly

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

That's okay. We will likely have a range of skilled players. You get better by playing regularly

You will teach me how to beat you at this chess?

 

[LoveDivine]

Who wants to post their elo rating? I bet we got some pretty good players here Mine is less than the default 800 cause i am not very gooood. Also I lost to my friend who used stockfish like 5-6 times in a row which ruined it. I beat him with scholars mate 2nd game then I was like wow man you got really good, didn't realize how easy it was to cheat online:/

I don't think it's that easy to cheat. Sure you could look up moves and tactics, but that would take forever and it's not a guarantee that you'd see the opponent's strategy developing. Chess is kind of hard game to cheat in. If you have to get help, you'll probably lose most of the time. As your friend found out quickly lol. I don't think I've ever had an issue with anyone clearly cheating and I've played for years online.

Hopefully all of us will play fairly

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

I don't think it's that easy to cheat. Sure you could look up moves and tactics, but that would take forever and it's not a guarantee that you'd see the opponent's strategy developing. Chess is kind of hard game to cheat in. If you have to get help, you'll probably lose most of the time. As your friend found out quickly lol. I don't think I've ever had an issue with anyone clearly cheating and I've played for years online.

Hopefully all of us will play fairly

Given the nature of this forum I can only assume no one will cheat

 

[kittysbecute]

I'm really bad at chess but I think it's fun and interesting. I actually used to watch classmates play it at lunch in highschool.
Our english teacher had a fancy set in her classroom that she let some of us use occationally during lunch.
Maybe I'll check out that site.

 

[Strathos]

There was an old section on the forums where we would play correspondence. I think I had the winning record.

 

[mark kennedy]

Just checked it out, I'm 1 for 3. I like it.

 

[Aleksandros]

I like chess and am in need of some entertainment, so I'll look into this!

Have any of you ever heard of Go? It's quite complicated yet seems cool - perhaps some of the better chess players here would like it.

 

[redblue22]

You have to be pretty smart for chess. I'm just not the competitive type. I'll be by the pool.

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

You have to be pretty smart for chess. I'm just not the competitive type. I'll be by the pool.

We can play checkers

 

[redblue22]

We can play checkers

I like simple social games where we don't keep score.

 

[Grandpa2390]

I don't think it's that easy to cheat. Sure you could look up moves and tactics, but that would take forever and it's not a guarantee that you'd see the opponent's strategy developing. Chess is kind of hard game to cheat in. If you have to get help, you'll probably lose most of the time. As your friend found out quickly lol. I don't think I've ever had an issue with anyone clearly cheating and I've played for years online.

Hopefully all of us will play fairly

Nonsense.
Get a copy of a good Chess Engine. I believe that's what he was saying.
Get Chessmaster XI. Put it in the hardest mode. and whatever moves your opponent makes, you make against the computer. and whatever moves the computer makes, you play in the online game.

Essentially, your online opponent is playing against the extremely difficult computer rather than you. But doesn't know it. It's cheating.

yeah he beat his friend with the four move checkmate in the second game, and then his friend used stockfish to beat the next 5-6 times in a row. He was like "WOW" until he realized the friend was using stockfish and cheating.

 

[Grandpa2390]

@YankeeGirl

 

[LoveDivine]

Nonsense.
Get a copy of a good Chess Engine. I believe that's what he was saying.
Get Chessmaster XI. Put it in the hardest mode. and whatever moves your opponent makes, you make against the computer. and whatever moves the computer makes, you play in the online game.

Essentially, your online opponent is playing against the extremely difficult computer rather than you. But doesn't know it. It's cheating.

Okay. I guess I never thought about that. I suppose if some care that much about their ranking there are ways to cheat.

I had intended for this club to be friendly and fun. I don't see how someone can get any satisfaction at all from cheating to win, but these are valid concerns being raised. One way to eliminate this is a Skype video chat while playing chess, lol. Then you can't cheat