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Openings are openings and as long as you follow the rules of development, safety, and control of the center, you will be fine up until a very strong level.

I'd be curious what you've written about chess.

Poker is just probability and psychology. The second part is more interesting to me. But you can make a lot of money in the right crowd.

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.

^^We could argue that point and you are probably correct, although I do try and mix things up (if I see I am playing a game too similarly to a previous game, I'll make a move I would otherwise not have made to see what happens, for example). I just enjoy the unknown a lot more.

I was bad at Magic: The Gathering for the same reason. I never liked using anyone else's decklists; I would always come up with my own decks that did weird esoteric things when they actually worked 1% of the time, because I enjoyed that more (even though I lost more) more than winning with a finely tuned "pro" deck.

I have the chess.com facebook app which I am pretty sure interacts directly with chess.com ... feel free to challenge StephenGazzard. I'll probably be sending out a couple challenges soon, haven't played in almost a year.

Never did get into all that opening move/theory stuff...I know it's what you need to do to win but the more you know, the more the game feels like you are following a script, I like the turn by turn analysis of everything on the board, it's what makes the game fun to me. So I am definitely not a pro, but sometimes, I pull of nifty things.

JJLehto wrote:

I'm new to this myself, but I see your profile and can challenge. Also adding to my friend list

I'm at work now and my phone app won't let me do what I want. So I'll look for you again this evening.

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.

Negoba wrote:

Equality 7-2521 wrote:

I used to play. When I was in high school, I worked and went to school in Center City where there's also an active population of people sitting at parks with chess boards waiting to play strangers.

I switched to playing poker instead. Actually, since then I've switched to reading and writing about the theory of poker rather than actually playing it.

I got obsessed with poker for about 6 weeks. I read several books and played online. (I actually learned to like Omaha rather than Texas Hold 'em). I soon realized I didn't have the patience. You have to fold so much to win.

Wierd that poker requires more patience than chess.

Well there's also the added bonus that you can make money playing poker. That can help the patience.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

I'm new to this myself, but I see your profile and can challenge. Also adding to my friend list

Eh? Well I put you in my notify/friends list, so I guess it tells me when you go online or off, at least.

JJ, I have avenged you (twice). Approve

But prepare yourself (soon). Evil Smile

I use BabaChess too.

There is a free program called Babaschess that makes FICS much easier to navigate. It also has analysis tools, etc. I highly recommend it.

You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.

Well done Vom. I thought it was going well for a bit but I see I fell into your trap.
Once you start moving the king around all is lost Cry