Do you play chess?

[Dank Data Tanks]

As someone who enjoys chess, over 10k games on chess.com and still a trash player, I would like to ask my fellow junkies, do any of yall play? Bullet and blitz only.

 

[ABB]

As someone who enjoys chess, over 10k games on chess.com and still a trash player, I would like to ask my fellow junkies, do any of yall play? Bullet and blitz only.

I like it but I rarely play it and suck.

 

[Dank Data Tanks]

I like it but I rarely play it and suck.

That's perfect. Bullet are 1 min games, or 2|1 which means u get 2 min plus added time for faster moves, and blitz is 3 min. I'm usually doing bishop dive bombs and continuing the attack unsuccessfully.

 

[Rhino78]

As someone who enjoys chess, over 10k games on chess.com and still a trash player, I would like to ask my fellow junkies, do any of yall play? Bullet and blitz only.

I use to play, pretty well I think...but not in a while.
(which means I'm probably trash)

 

[JawboneOfAnAss]

I play chess, though basically just the bots on chess.com. I can destroy Nelson now but Wendy is tough for me. I'd say my elo level is around 1300-1400.

 

[ABB]

That's perfect. Bullet are 1 min games, or 2|1 which means u get 2 min plus added time for faster moves, and blitz is 3 min. I'm usually doing bishop dive bombs and continuing the attack unsuccessfully.

I'm always asking which one can move which way. that's how bad I am.

 

[Dank Data Tanks]

I use to play, pretty well I think...but not in a while.
(which means I'm probably trash)

Well if you or anyone else wanna play my chess.com handle is "KnifeLikeRTS"

 

[osubuckeye4]

I play chess, though basically just the bots on chess.com. I can destroy Nelson now but Wendy is tough for me. I'd say my elo level is around 1300-1400.

I was never great or anything, but I did use to enjoy playing back in high school/college (1998-2004 or so).

I feel like sometime between 05-08 I started running into more bots (or people using bot assistance) and less human opponents and it became pointless.


Oh yea, and as a kid (early to mid 90s) I loved the 'BattleChess' game on the PC

 

[Dank Data Tanks]

Just played a donkey strategy and won while down a good chunk material https://www.chess.com/game/live/168331921166?username=knifelikerts&move=0

 

[Eranys]

I was never great or anything, but I did use to enjoy playing back in high school/college (1998-2004 or so).

I feel like sometime between 05-08 I started running into more bots (or people using bot assistance) and less human opponents and it became pointless.


Oh yea, and as a kid (early to mid 90s) I loved the 'BattleChess' game on the PC

I loved that game!

 

[Dank Data Tanks]

I was never great or anything, but I did use to enjoy playing back in high school/college (1998-2004 or so).

I feel like sometime between 05-08 I started running into more bots (or people using bot assistance) and less human opponents and it became pointless.


Oh yea, and as a kid (early to mid 90s) I loved the 'BattleChess' game on the PC

Often I'll get a msg from the servers saying I played someone who was determined to be using some form of hax, and they refund the elo pts

 

[osubuckeye4]

Often I'll get a msg from the servers saying I played someone who was determined to be using some form of hax, and they refund the elo pts

The large sites are probably (I would hope) better now about detecting cheating than they were 20 years ago.

It just felt like every time I would get to a certain level I'd inevitably run into a clump of games featuring 'people' playing at lightning speed that never made a mistake who were obviously using assistance. Rather than kick them off the platform, the system wouldn't do anything about it other than force you to play it out and take the loss.

I never cared about losing (I had zero aspirations of topping leaderboards or playing at a professional level... I was miles away from either of those), it was the waste of time that bothered me.

 

[Dank Data Tanks]

The large sites are probably (I would hope) better now about detecting cheating than they were 20 years ago.

It just felt like every time I would get to a certain level I'd inevitably run into a clump of games featuring 'people' playing at lightning speed that never made a mistake who were obviously using assistance. Rather than kick them off the platform, the system wouldn't do anything about it other than force you to play it out and take the loss.

I never cared about losing (I had zero aspirations of topping leaderboards or playing at a professional level... I was miles away from either of those), it was the waste of time that bothered me.

Totally agree my friend, about all that

 

[Riz Farmer]

As someone who enjoys chess, over 10k games on chess.com and still a trash player, I would like to ask my fellow junkies, do any of yall play? Bullet and blitz only.

Only garden chess, where you move those huge figures around. Takes three hours between afternoon tea and all the peasant shooting.
Oh dear. I misspelt pheasant. Well, I’ve invented a new aristocratic sporting pursuit.

 

[Riz Farmer]

blitz is 3 min. I'm usually doing bishop dive bombs.

We all bash our bishop on the internet.

 

[Riz Farmer]

Seriously. Chess is great but I’m not great at it. My brother was a regional champion. Very good. So they stuck me on the school team after he left. I sucked.
If only they’d done the same with cricket. I was actually good at that.
And thus concludes today’s story of victimhood.

 

[Bellatrix]

@Dank Data Tanks It says you're not accepting friend requests on chess.com. I'm really shitty, BTW. Counteroffer, Texas Hold'Em. I play for free on boardgamearena.com. On chess.com and BGA as "Moorlady." Always looking to improve my skills at either game, especially poker.

 

[JawboneOfAnAss]