Chess Program

[WoodPeckr]

Thought of passing on this Chess game program a buddy sent me. You play against a computer. Would rate it average level and fun:

http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html

 

[[ALIMEISTER]]

Nerd.

 

[shinyam]

Pretty cool. I lost patience with its slow moves and made some silly errors before completing a game, but I like the design.

 

[Asterix]

Had it within two or three moves of checkmate and the screen froze. The computor equivalent of flipping the board over.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Having fun with it

Noticed that 'screen freeze' also when it is losing but it doesn't happen all the time. It usually plays a good end game.

Did find a flaw in its play by opening with the K pawn, then taking its Q pawn, drawing out its Q early then attacking the Q with both knights. It makes a couple dumb moves allowing you to develop nicely and beat it in short order all the time.....

 

[bishop]

Don you left out "know the battfield" in your quote.

 

[jwmorrice]

Here's a nice chess programme that's free: http://www.armageddon.szach.pl/

jwm

 

[stainless]

MSN & Pogo have chess games u can play against other people

 

[Keebler Elf]

Ever notice how it's always the people that can't do something that are the first to criticize people who can?

e.g. people who don't read criticizing people who do, people who don't play chess criticizing those who do, etc., etc.

 

[WoodPeckr]

Yahoo games

MSN & Pogo have chess games u can play against other people

Yahoo also has a nice variety of free games, chess, checkers, cards etc., where you play against people from all over the world.

 

[rama putri]

Most of the great military generals played chess.

Riiight, in the movies or on TV.

 

[strange1]

In my past life as Patton, I played chess.

 

[baci2004]

Ever notice how it's always the people that can't do something that are the first to criticize people who can?

e.g. people who don't read criticizing people who do, people who don't play chess criticizing those who do, etc., etc.

Ever notice how it's always the people that are miserable, and ugly on the inside that complain about things that are beautiful?

 

[WoodPeckr]

Originally posted by DonQuixote
Most of the great military generals played chess.
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Originally posted by rama putri
Riiight, in the movies or on TV.

rama,
Study your history a bit....it's true. Chess is a great game. A game of position, a game of war. The Persians are given credit for inventing it back in the 8th century, while the Russians are considered the best chessmasters nowadays.

 

[rama putri]

So who are the great military generals that played chess? Name them. Please teach me history.

The fact that chess is a great game of strategy, which I agree, has nothing to do with your statement. So far.

 

[WoodPeckr]

So who are the great military generals that played chess? Name them. Please teach me history.

A few are: plus a few other notables to boot:
Arafat, Yasser
Castro, Fidel
Che Guevara
Charlemagne
Jefferson, Thomas
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Pres. Abraham Lincoln
Machiavelli
Marx, Karl
Miller, Henry
Newton, Isaac
Orwell, George
Gen. John J. Pershing
Richard the Lionheart
Pres. Roosevelt, Teddy
Tamerlane
Pres. & Gen. George Washington
Wayne, John (The Duke)
H.G. Wells
Mae West
Woody Allen
Humphrey Bogart
Bono
Brando, Marlon
Ben Franklin

There are more at this link:

http://www.chesscity.com/Features/trivias.html