How about a nice game of chess?

[Observer]

Alright, who here on the Shard is any good at chess? Lately I've reactivated on chess.com and started meeting again with my chess-buddies, played a bunch of silly and embarrassing games, and started to get my game back on. So I started to wonder: Are there enough people here to start regular, round-robin correspondence games? Chess is an amazing, beautiful mix of tactics and strategy, and I'd like the chance to do it a little justice, either by crushing you people or being crushed by you people. Chess.com is good place for this kind of thing, and my username is Deathguardian97. Send me a challenge if you're feeling up to it, maybe discuss the game a bit in here. Let's see if we can't get started.

 

If you have a game going, and wouldn't mind people watching, kindly post a link somewhere here, and I'll add it to this post.

So far we have:

 

Me vs Rainspren:  http://www.chess.com...me?id=100623568

me vs luckat: http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=101916342

Me vs The Only Joe: http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=100956806

Me vs LokiThor: http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=101349634

 

For ease of sending friend requests and challenges, attack your fellow sharers here:

http://www.chess.com/members/view/QueenElsa1

http://www.chess.com/members/view/VO1DUS

http://www.chess.com/members/view/Rainspren

http://www.chess.com/members/view/luckat

http://www.chess.com/members/view/deathguardian97

Edited December 19, 2014 by Observer

[Steel he/him]

I wouldn't mind a game or two.

[Kasimir he/him]

I used to be decent at it, but that was at least ten years ago, when I was playing competitively. I haven't been playing at all in the intervening years, and when I reinstalled the Chessmaster program for fun a couple of months ago, I got thoroughly curbstomped (not that I was expecting any different...)

 

I wouldn't mind playing but I probably wouldn't give anyone a challenge at this stage

Edited November 22, 2014 by Kasimir

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

I used to play it regulary about 7 years ago, but haven't played in ages. I still remember a few tricks though

[Voidus]

Chess do be awesome, one of the more useful applications for my otherwise useless talents in remembering long lists of random stuff.

[Observer]

So, who here has an account of Chess.com already, or the e-mail associated with that account so I can send a friend request?

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

So, who here has an account of Chess.com already, or the e-mail associated with that account so I can send a friend request?

Is it free to make an account on it?

[Observer]

Yeah, it's free. They'll send you a bunch of chess-related mail to make you feel like a friendless loser, but marking it as spam gets rid of it quickly enough. Other than that, it's pretty much a ten second process.

[SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him]

Yeah, it's free. They'll send you a bunch of chess-related mail to make you feel like a friendless loser, but marking it as spam gets rid of it quickly enough. Other than that, it's pretty much a ten second process.

I like feeling like a friendless loser so i'll eventually get around to making an account.

[Surgebound Rainspren he/him]

I haven't played for a couple years, after the group i played with broke up. why not, I'll sign up too!

[luckat she/her]

I played a bunch when I was younger, but it's been a while. I just tried a few games, and, wow, I'm rusty! I'd be up for playing more.

[Observer]

As I said, I am registered as Deathguardian97. I think I used my spam E-mail of [email protected] to set it up. If you go to the "invite a friend" tab and attempt to invite that E-mail, it will inform you that I'm already a member. That'll take you to my profile and let you challenge me. Anybody else who wants to be bombarded with challenges from the Shard, feel free to post your usernames here as well.

[Surgebound Rainspren he/him]

My username is Rainspren my pic is a photo of me in aviators and a movie villain mustache 

[Observer]

I've sent you a challenge request. Let's see how this plays out.

[Surgebound Rainspren he/him]

you have ten day to make your first move, good luck

[Observer]

For those who want to see the game: http://www.chess.com...me?id=100623568

And if by some miracle you're on while we're both making moves, it won't auto-update. You'll have to make do by pushing F5 repeatedly while our screens show the game live, suckers. 

 

(Reposting because I somehow accidentally hid my last post. Don't ask. More or less recreated I think.)

Edited November 30, 2014 by Observer

[luckat she/her]

My username over there is luckat (same as here).

[Observer]

I've sent a friend request and a challenge. If you hit up my profile, you can also find Rainspren and send a request/challenge there as well.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

My Username is The_Only_Joe. I haven't played in a long time, but I'd love to play a game with anyone.

[Observer]

For some reason I can't find you. Also for friend requests I'm posting links to all current member's profile pages in the OP.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Not Quite certain how to use that Site, but I think I've sent you a friend Request and Challenged you to a Game.

[Kobold King he/him]

Not Quite certain how to use that Site, but I think I've sent you a friend Request and Challenged you to a Game.

 

Are you playing for Shards?

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Not that I'm aware of. And I'm not certain If I want the Observation Shard anyway. I'm fine with the Singularity Shard

[Observer]

Game accepted, good luck and have fun. Be sure to challenge the others while you're at it.

And nobody in their right mind should want Observation. If you thought Harmony had problems taking action...

[RawToast225 he/him]

I've challenged all three of you to an unrated game. My username there is LokiThor42 

, just so you know.