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ronzo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:05 PM
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Poll question: What kind of Chess player are you?
Edited on Thu Nov-13-03 11:06 PM by ronzoNOLA
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Stupdworld Donating Member (363 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:06 PM
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1. not good
with a 1300 elo on yahoo chess, not a very good one apparently
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:51 PM
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10. I suck . . .
anyone can beat me at chess . . . I don't have the patience to look several moves ahead, and I'm forever making dumb mistakes that inevitably lose the game for me . . . I even lose to kids I teach how to play! . . .
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Ediacara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 01:47 AM
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18. where's the "very bad" option?
I'm with you, I'm awful!
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kyrasdad Donating Member (551 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:07 PM
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2. Isn't that the game with the little horsies and castles on a checkerboard?
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:19 PM
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7. hello, mr president
;-)
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FDRrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:08 PM
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3. Defensive...
I play alot... and I am always focused on countering possible attacks, but I do take openings when they are very promising. Chess is great, ain't it?
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JackSwift Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:08 PM
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4. Aggressive to a fault
but no other way to play is any fun.
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:16 PM
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6. i much prefer cards
Hearts, Spades.
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ronzo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:20 PM
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8. I do enjoy a good game of spades.
:toast:
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:15 PM
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5. Aggressive. Because, I have more fun playing in that manner.
I can play a balanced game or a defensive game, but I prefer to get on the offensive and stay on the offensive.

Note, my aggressive style stops short of opening gambits against an equally matched player.
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:31 PM
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9. I am which ever kind of chess player
the field in play and the skills of my opponent require of me.

Never been a 'one trick pony.' And I win a lot.
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-03 11:55 PM
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11. Aggressive: I Develop My Pieces, Avoid Exchanges,
and go for complications in the middle game, betting that my opponent will get more confused than me.

I played a LOT in 9th and 10th grades. Then I fell out with my best friend, who played first board on the chess team, and gradually lost interest.
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kayleybeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 12:32 AM
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12. I'm both too agressive and too defensive
therefore I always lose at chess. I'm either too busy trying to second guess my opponent, or I'm so busy playing defense that I neglect to mount an offensive. I always lose at chess, even though I've been playing since I was five years old. I just never learned to strike the proper balance between offense and defense.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 12:36 AM
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13. What about "shitty"? Where's that option?
Edited on Fri Nov-14-03 12:37 AM by Rabrrrrrr
I don't know if I'm agressive or defensive, because I suck.

Which is really funny, considering my intelligence, ability to focus, and skill at other games and mind-based things. I can beat poor players (like my niece and other children), but that's about it.

Give me Go - that game I can handle.

Chess? Fuhgeddaboutit.

I like to play it though.
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SmileyBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 12:50 AM
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14. Balanced. Whenever I'm in the mood, I'll be either.
I'm pretty flexible. Whenever I've got some caffeine in me while playing, I tend to be aggressive to a fault.
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 12:50 AM
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15. I found a better game than chess
http://coupthegame.com

so I don't play chess much any more. It's too limited and slow.

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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 12:56 AM
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16. THAT looks totally cool!
Holy crow! Tell me more . . .
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 04:59 AM
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21. Up to 4 players can play at the same time.
Imagine a middle game of chess with four players and no blocked end-game at all. And you introduce the pieces as you go along rather than having them all on the board at the start. Oh, and the suicide bomber piece can kill up to 8 or sometimes more pieces in one single capture.

It's hot. Trust me.

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frustrated_lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 01:02 AM
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17. State highschool champ in the 80s,
a defensive player. I play like a "c" class player these days, though. :(
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neebob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 01:47 AM
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19. No chess for me, thank you
It's too complicated and war-like. I play Scrabble with my computer.
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VermontDem2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 03:43 AM
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20. Just terrible
I can rarely win a game and when I am facing someone good, just forget about it.
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onebigbadwulf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 05:10 AM
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22. I like playing without queens
so I take theirs and sacrafice mine without remorse.
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 09:06 AM
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23. tournament champion
of Mitsubishi america in a past life and champion of my old scout troop... i got bored with the game... never liked playing with clocks... preferring "gentlemens chess" where if someone makes a dumb move, i let them take it back, as i want a good game.

I think multiplayer command and conquor is far more interesting these days... much more dynamic and strategic. Figure chess is an early video game... primitive and static. The new strategic games where peices have entire strategies built in entirely eclipse the old stuff in my mind. I don't even have a chess board anymore...
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youngred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 09:06 AM
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24. an advancing defensive formation
I create a rather elaborate defense and then push it forward a couple squares at a time until it traps my opponent forcing them to wreck themselves on my defesne and sweep in from the wings to declare checkmate
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 09:10 AM
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25. It depends on who I'm playing.
I tend to adjust to the skill level of my opponent. I'll be especially aggressive to a less experienced player, but to a formidable opponent I'll give proper respect: develop my pieces, control the center, open attacking lines.
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 09:50 AM
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26. Retired!
I had a lot of natural talent. We had chess matches with other high schools and no one could beat me. Then my regular opponent started studying chess in books and I had to study to catch up with him.

Now I have found a greater challenge--political organizing. It is hard to believe that an introverted nerd like me is so good with people 25 years later. It all depends upon where your heart is.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 09:54 AM
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27. other: short-sighted, clueless player.
At 43, I've given up on getting any better. I teach my class to play. Just pieces, moves, general rules. I can't teach them strategy. Both my sons could beat me by the time they were 8 or 9. These days they don't play with me; it's a useless exercise. I play myself on the computer, quite happily, because I can pick an opponent as bad as I am. I do like to watch my sons play each other, though. Any time they're both visiting at the same time, the chess set comes out and I watch from the sidelines.
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welshTerrier2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-03 10:05 AM
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28. Kasparov match on espn2
Kasparov played x3d Fritz (a chess computer) on tuesday (draw) and yesterday (x3d won) on espn2 ... the jerks on espn2 interrupted the match to show tennis ... why bother to put on the chess match if you're going to do that ... what a bunch of macaroons ...

i was able to find live coverage of the match on the net here:
www.WorldChessRating.com

the next match is sunday at 1 pm est ...
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