ICB Where did you learn to play chess mate?

[Kev]

okay Bilbo. It may not be a high level.. I agree with you on that.

It wasn't very strong at all sadly, only around 1400 level tops but you won and that was the main thing. You played well though.

Chessmaster is a very customisable game and there are many different sliders and settings that affect the way it plays. This particular personality seemed to have a very small opening book, and very limited field depth you still won well.

Against a proper chess computer program though operating at full strength if you win you should immediately devote the rest of your life to the game as you'd be the best in the world within a year with proper study and there's plenty of money at the top.

And if you manage to beat Rybka at full strength with you playing black then you might even get in the record books as currently its beating GM's in official tournaments even at pawn and move odds.

For the record, I believe the youngest GM now is from the PHilippines.


Julius,

Nice to know that you're in PI. I'm in Visayas now. You buy a sim card (around P20 and we will be text mate. hehehe. )Just buy a smart sim. Ask help from your relatives on how to text me if you're not that techie. PM me your smart number and I will text you.

Yeah he's not any more some little Indian kid became a gm earlier this year but I think he was last year. But it's great for chess that there are talented players from all over the world, Vishy Anand is currently the world's first Indian world champ and there are incredibly strong players across virtually the whole of Europe, China etc.

America is one comparatively one of the weaker countries with very little homegrown talent sadly, guess the game just isn't popular in a nation as dumbed down as the US. All the best US players are Russian or from countries that were formely part of the USSR.

One thing that's weird though is that there are no top black players that I know of anywhere in the world, Maurice Ashley is the only black GM I've heard of. Weird that an entire race seems to not play the game at all