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skrobism
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Chess is a great game. Maybe the best strategy game of all time. Simple rules, limited equipment, endless combinations - you could be stuck on a deserted island and put a game together.
Anyway. Yes I play. Less now than I used to but I am teaching my sons. Everyone should play this game. It is a great brain exercise. I love it when, after playing several games, I start to dream moves.
I have never played in a league.
I have dabbled in Steve Jackson's Knightmare Chess. It's a nice expansion that uses cards to grant new moves and twists to the game.
[This message has been edited by skrobism (edited November 17, 2000).]
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Bereta_Eder
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I play chess these last few days. It's part of my detoxication program to get away from CIV.
Only to get right back into it afterwards!
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cavebear
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of the Pleistocene
Oct 1999
time: 00:12
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Perhaps the appropriate question in a venue such as this is what games *don't* we play! My list of games that I am at least comfortable with is almost to long to mention.
I guess my basic rule is that if it is not random (like say, Chutes and Ladders), I will (and probably have) played it.
I think there should be a master rating system that takes into account most games, so we could see where we stand in all games. Or a club where we all participate in a different game each week...
Other than Civ, favorites in a sort of general order: Hearts, Chess, Risk, any Avalon Hill game, Backgammon, Feudal, Phalanx, Monopoly, Life, Stratego, Cinch (aka Set Back),Bridge, Spades, Cribbage, Awari, etc.
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MacUser
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Olathe, KS, USA
Jul 1999
time: 23:12
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quote:
Originally posted by cavebear on 11-17-2000 11:54 PM
I guess my basic rule is that if it is not random (like say, Chutes and Ladders), I will (and probably have) played it.
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Let's see, my list would include: Break the Ice, Candy Land, Hi Ho Cherry-O, Monopoly for kids, Chinese Checkers, LEGO Creator and when in a particuly adventurous mood Dark Tower and Mastermind!  I sometimes try for grownup games by am short of opponents (or is it that my opponents are too short...)! On Mondays I get creative and "invent" games for Cub Scouts. My greatest was using old tires and plastic gallon milk jugs for bowling!
I tried to interest my oldest in chess, but he may have been too young at the time. He's almost 11 now, so I should try again.
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"And now for something completely different..."
- John Cleese
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zyxpsilon
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Laval,Quebec,Canada
Sep 2000
time: 05:12
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quote:
Originally posted by Julius Brenzaida on 11-17-2000 06:53 AM
I was wondering how many Apolytiners were playing chess, and how many were playing the game quite seriously (being in a club for example).
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Castling on Queen side's, Yes, done that... but was nailed in a tournament by a Kevin Spragget's bishop back in the late 70's, ever since my quote has been climbing over 2000 from the deception of losing the key game. Yearly membership fees excluded.
Had to tilt a king against a "can't remember his name!" slovak downtown Montreal in 40 boards sequencial show down in the early 80's.
Grabbed another opponent queen with a strangely planned knight double fork, too! 
Last time i checked, the logic of 91 hexagonal boarding is a patent i owned(and still do) and distributed as "CHEXX" back in 1987  on many different medias.
But, Yes, done that.
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skrobism
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I loved playing Magic The Gathering. I found 3 problems with the game though.
1: The rules would change with every expansion pack.
2: It was way too addicting. I'd find myself being drawn into game stores to buy packs of cards that would never be played because...
3: It was difficult to find relatively 'normal' adults to play with.
One day I'll dig out those cards and teach my boys to play. Then I'll show them the mighty wizard that I know myself to be. Ha HA HA ha.
Did I say 'normal'?
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Ken Hinds
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Julius,
If you look at the script from Carolus' and KcBob's first game you'll see that I also play. As an old dinasaur I find it very hard to "see" the board using this new notation system. I expect that soon I will have to get in line to take my turn at Smash, new notation or not.
Ken
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Ken Hinds
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Julius,
I guess that I really stepped into that one. I was reponding more to the general tone of the message rather than attempting to comment on the way the game was being played. I have been away from the board for away and have not been keeping up with the series or much of anything else here at Apolyton.
KcBob,
Sandbaggers, really? You wouldn't be talking about those of us who have established 60 pin handicaps and then bowl 220 games just because we're playing one of the top 3 teams in the league would you? You don't understand how hard it is to play just good enough to win and not much more. 1 - nil is always a more exciting game then a 7 - nil blow out. Remember you should always allow your opponent hope, and then you snatch it away just as the clock runs out.
Ken
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17-11-2000 16:53
him away*
).
Still, against a newbie i can crush them, vets, well they take me out like calvalry on phalanx's. One thing i do not know how to do is follow the moves in the forum of the games that are being played online. Its all gibberish to me 
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