Forum Overview :: Throne of Bhaal

Yes, extremely unsatisfying game by FABIO 04/29/2009, 8:07pm PDT The problem with chess is when you're starting out, there are only 3 levels of play: - Complete casual neophyte - Beginner who's trying to learn by getting down a few basic strategies - Assholes who devote hundreds of hours into studying game histories then reverse engineer them and play themselves. As a casual player, who can only hope to have an even match with other casual beginners which will be a contest of whoever randomly makes less obvious fuck ups. The big problem comes once you've reached your stage in nailing down basic strategies. Your choice of opponent is very limited. You're not going to find too many other people who have just reached stage 2 at any given time, and the neophytes that you can beat are the ones least interested in playing; at most you'll get ot beat them in one game before they move on to something more fulfilling like going out and getting laid. Your only choice after that is to quit or devote yourself to stage 3, which is the chess equivalent of scoring a perfect on every Guitar Hero expert level song. Most people (correctly) realize that the time investment is much better spent learning an actual instrument or a billion other more productive or enjoyable time sinks.

Creex is learning to draw (ha ha kinda) and I am learning to play chess. by Zsenitan 04/28/2009, 3:20pm PDT     I know how to draw clearly because I'm making a webcomic. *adjusts glasses* NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 04/28/2009, 3:23pm PDT     Chess is mostly about what you CAN'T do and other limiting freedoms. Fuck that NT by V 04/28/2009, 3:43pm PDT         Freedom is just another word for nothin left to lose. ;-; NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 04/28/2009, 3:51pm PDT     the one time I ever beat my dad at chess by up with pod people 04/28/2009, 4:28pm PDT     Chess is not a very satisfying game by Last 04/29/2009, 12:52pm PDT         I also feel there is a lot of memorization before the REAL mind games start. NT by Fussbett 04/29/2009, 12:54pm PDT             So it's like Starcraft then. by Zsenitan 04/29/2009, 2:11pm PDT                 Bunyip got a 693 once playing with an Asteroids-style boundless board NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/29/2009, 4:38pm PDT                     Has he ever played Star Trek chess? The future is keeeeeeraaaaazeeeeee! by Entropy Stew 04/29/2009, 7:18pm PDT                         I don't think he has, no. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/29/2009, 7:22pm PDT                     What? NT by laudablebunyip 04/30/2009, 6:11pm PDT     Re: Creex is learning to draw (ha ha kinda) and I am learning to play chess. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/29/2009, 3:38pm PDT     Re: Creex is learning to draw (ha ha kinda) and I am learning to play chess. by glugalug 04/29/2009, 7:21pm PDT         The best part of chess is dumping a drink into the computer and saying CHEATING NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 04/29/2009, 7:28pm PDT             LADY NT by gruman 04/29/2009, 9:31pm PDT             What we missed in costuming and 1970s chess technology by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/29/2009, 10:09pm PDT                 COSPLAY REQUEST: please do Bruce Willis at the beginning of 5th Element NT by Zsenitan 04/29/2009, 11:40pm PDT                     That may be difficult unless he is consuming a lot of alcohol at the beginning o NT by f that movie - by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/30/2009, 12:06am PDT                         COSPLAY REQUEST: please do drunk naked forum administrator just a lil sprung NT by Zsenitan 04/30/2009, 12:26am PDT     Yes, extremely unsatisfying game by FABIO 04/29/2009, 8:07pm PDT         Lot of anti-intellectualism in this thread :( by Jerry Whorebach 04/29/2009, 9:46pm PDT             Why the tears? No car? Burn. NT by Fussbett 04/29/2009, 9:58pm PDT                 The current female world champion is sexually attractive! by Quétinbec 04/30/2009, 2:07am PDT                     She has Jodie Foster's nose (she won it in a chess match) NT by Jerry Whorebach 04/30/2009, 6:29pm PDT                         Unrelated anecdote (about someone else) by Fussbett 04/30/2009, 7:45pm PDT     Shot up to 700+, then dribbled back down through sheer force of laziness. by Zsenitan 05/01/2009, 1:38am PDT         Protip: When you lose 19 games in a row, STOP NT by Fussbett 05/01/2009, 2:49am PDT             That doesn't stop me playing SF4, and it shouldn't stop you either NT by Entropy Stew 05/01/2009, 8:26am PDT                 What should is fighting games are only half a game. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/01/2009, 10:29am PDT                     Yeah, just the good part of a mixed bag! NT by Fussbett 05/01/2009, 12:04pm PDT                         River City Ransom without all that pesky "rest of the game" stuff. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/01/2009, 12:12pm PDT                             Actually RCR had a more evolved fighting system than SF4 et al hey what do you t NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/01/2009, 12:15pm PDT                                 Play RCR to beat a game, play SF to beat a man(child). THE MOST DANGEROUS PREY NT by Fussbett 05/01/2009, 12:21pm PDT                                     Play SF to play a half done derivative of RCR. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/01/2009, 12:32pm PDT                             He's complaining that he can't eat sushi or read books in Street Fighter 4 :( NT by WE'VE ALL BEEN TROLLED 05/01/2009, 1:45pm PDT                                 Is that bad? NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 05/01/2009, 1:58pm PDT                 Some of us hold ourselves to a higher standard by Fussbett 05/01/2009, 11:57am PDT     790 but in a skeezy way. NT by Zsenitan 05/10/2009, 4:45pm PDT         How so? Did you toggle en_passant on for pieces other than pawns? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/10/2009, 9:53pm PDT             Ha ha no. I got hints on the endgame. by Zsenitan 05/11/2009, 5:26am PDT