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

[brucelee]

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

Nice/weird observation. They excel in other sports but not chess.

Maybe we're weak enough in their sports so we go to mind games where physical strength is not required or it could be the other way around.

Asians generally have smaller build so chess is a good fit for us. British are too fragile looking so they deserve to excel in chess.

[CGM]

The number of grandmasters in the world today approaches 1,000, at last count a grand total of six are from Africa, and most of them are Arabic, from Northern Africa. South of the Sahara there is only one grandmaster. Anyways, only one black grandmaster from Africa.

Women's chess is on the rise, but maybe there are 12-15 grandmasters. In most countries, and around the world, there are two categories of competition. One category is open to women only, the other is open to men and women. Really there is only one woman who can compete at the highest level with the men, that is Judit Polgar of Hungary. It is to her credit that she refuses to play in women's chess, even though she could make a decent dollar there.

It's an interesting debate as to why there are so few women in chess.

[smashup]

Fuck chess anyway it's a wankers game
So where is the lying little fuckka anyway?
Has he been back online or is he still reading this under his "Sssss" account?

Maybe Box-rec and Wikipedia have both crashed for the last 10 days hense his dissapearance

[Kev]

Fuck chess anyway it's a wankers game
So where is the lying little fuckka anyway?
Has he been back online or is he still reading this under his "Sssss" account?

Maybe Box-rec and Wikipedia have both crashed for the last 10 days hense his dissapearance

You're the mod can't you tell us that?

That account is in invisible mode so we can't see when he was last on but if you browse it with your mod powers it will probably give u the date he ssss last logged in?

[smashup]

Bilbo do i come across as someone who would waste my time "checking up" on a forum member?

[Kev]

Bilbo do i come across as someone who would waste my time "checking up" on a forum member?

Well you asked the question, and it only takes one click on a profile to answer it. We all want to know if he's still secretly amongst us I'm sure, just take a look and tell us

[kingfrnk]

Bilbo is still mad that ICB beat him a chess.

[Kev]

The number of grandmasters in the world today approaches 1,000, at last count a grand total of six are from Africa, and most of them are Arabic, from Northern Africa. South of the Sahara there is only one grandmaster. Anyways, only one black grandmaster from Africa.

Women's chess is on the rise, but maybe there are 12-15 grandmasters. In most countries, and around the world, there are two categories of competition. One category is open to women only, the other is open to men and women. Really there is only one woman who can compete at the highest level with the men, that is Judit Polgar of Hungary. It is to her credit that she refuses to play in women's chess, even though she could make a decent dollar there.

It's an interesting debate as to why there are so few women in chess.

You know the thousand grandmasters CGM is that 1000 amongst current competitive players or 1000 grandmasters ever? I know you never lose the title so do you mean there's only been around a 1000 GM's so far?