Chess - Who Plays?

[mickbrown]

Used to until my 12 year old beat me.

I'm a proper bad loser, chess pieces everywhere.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

17 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I sometimes think about taking it up but it feels like it'd take a huge amount of time and effort just to get to the level where I'd not be shite at it.

Just do it.

Get the basics, and then the ability to think, assess and plan becomes important. 

If you have such abilities, and perhaps the ability to assess your opponent's methods, you'll be reet.

[MickyD]

22 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I bet you don't even know when to effectively castle.

I wonder who, during a game, decided he could move his king two or three places and then put the rook he was going towards inside the king.
Did his opponent say, “What the fuck?”

 

[Ani]

15 hours ago, MickyD said:

I wonder who, during a game, decided he could move his king two or three places and then put the rook he was going towards inside the king.
Did his opponent say, “What the fuck?”

 

You heard of en passant ? Where if a pawn has been moved 2 spaces as its first move so it is next to another pawn you can take it as though it had only moved one space ! 
A rule that can only have been made up by someone in a sulk. 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

10 hours ago, Ani said:

You heard of en passant ? Where if a pawn has been moved 2 spaces as its first move so it is next to another pawn you can take it as though it had only moved one space ! 
A rule that can only have been made up by someone in a sulk. 

When we played in matches, I can't remember it ever being used, nor whether at that age I was even aware of it.

Maybe the teachers agreed not to allow it or something.