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Email chess. We'd just need each other's emails and a chessboard with the pieces. :ninja: My grandpa made a hand-carved chessboard.
I haven't used it in a long time, but itsyourturn is a pretty good and simple site. Just google it, I prefer to err on the side of caution.
I'm Falc on there and would be interested to play chess, shogu or go.
I'm Falc on there and would be interested to play chess, shogu or go.
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Okay fine I'll play. If anyone wants to hunt me Night 0 though that's fine.
I'd love a game but I'd be embarrassingly bad, I have almost no experience. If some of you guys want to play each other though, I'd love to read your games.
I'd love a game but I'd be embarrassingly bad, I have almost no experience. If some of you guys want to play each other though, I'd love to read your games.
Yeah. Snoop seems pretty handy as well. I've also learnt in my searchings that apparently tamius has played a GM. EDIT: No, a World frickin' Champion - Topalov. At least he was going to anyway.
Awesome.
THE GAME WILL START 23:00 GMT TONIGHT AFTER ROLES ARE HANDED OUT.
ALL PLAYERS WILL GET A PM NO MATTER THE ROLE.
Prepare yourselves.
Sportsball is coming.
THE GAME WILL START 23:00 GMT TONIGHT AFTER ROLES ARE HANDED OUT.
ALL PLAYERS WILL GET A PM NO MATTER THE ROLE.
Prepare yourselves.
Sportsball is coming.
Rules are simple, game is hugely complex.
19x19 board (or smaller for newbies).
You take turns placing a piece of your color. A piece all by itself has 4 'freedoms', meaning, the 4 horizontally and vertically adjacent places are open.
Pieces of the same player form groups that share freedoms. Two adjacent pieces then have (at most) 6 freedoms together.
If I place a piece so that it takes away the very last freedom of one of your groups, I capture the entire group and remove them from the board.
If you're interested in learning more, sign up at the site I mentioned and tell me what username you picked. I'll set up a game.
Game set up and invite sent.
al-Aziz, feel free to do New Game -> invite specific user and set up whatever you feel like. Unless you also want to learn go?
(btw, there's a falc and a Falc, it seems. You can spot the difference since I wrote down my hometown (Brussels))
Inbox cleared. I really wanted to learn Go over Christmas, but couldn't find a board in any shops. Considered carving one myself for a while, but I was never going to be bothered to do that.
I just about know the rules. But I played one game for like 2 mins online against a free online simulator, on a 9x9 board and it became quickly apparent I had no conception of what to do. I imagine it would take me hours to even begin to have an idea of where to put my pieces on a small board, and many more to attain a level worth playing someone who knows the game. Playing anyone until then would be a waste of time. And I don't like to be taught, I'm a proud auto-didact.
One problem I've felt a few times is that 9x9 is maybe too small to really learn... Neither player has any room until someone makes a mistake. If you're serious, I'd learn on a 13x13.
And you need spatial visualisation skills. You need to be able to visualize a few moves ahead. Not necessarily be able to visualize and analyze every possible situation 4 moves ahead, but at least be able to see one or two. That's a skill you can take to or bring from quite a few other games.
And you need spatial visualisation skills. You need to be able to visualize a few moves ahead. Not necessarily be able to visualize and analyze every possible situation 4 moves ahead, but at least be able to see one or two. That's a skill you can take to or bring from quite a few other games.