Chess

[Shaq]

I'm (re)learning how to play now.

Do you play?

Are you good at it?

How does it rank with your favorite games?

It's fun but for me Monopoly will always be the greatest game that requirs no energy...Spades right behind it...

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I could play Spades for hours, but Chess gives me a charge like no other game. After you play for a while, several weeks, dozens of games, really get the game into your subconscious, you get into a "Zone" where you start seeing six or seven moves ahead, and that's an awesome place to be. It's a feeling of omnipotence.

 

[JerseyBoy]

I remember back in college, when I was supposed to be studying, playing chess against my computerized chess machine...without using the pieces

if only i could focus my powers for something useful...

I could play Spades for hours, but Chess gives me a charge like no other game. After you play for a while, several weeks, dozens of games, really get the game into your subconscious, you get into a "Zone" where you start seeing six or seven moves ahead, and that's an awesome place to be. It's a feeling of omnipotence.

 

[markb325]

Use to play all the time now I don't have any one to play against.

 

[phrodeau]

e2-e4

 

[medjay]

After graduating college, I did a brief stint at an electrical maintenance trade school. My lab partner at the time had gotten a couple of books and taught himself how to play chess.

I played with him every day and, even though I'd been playing chess for years, he beat me more than half the time. After a while, he began teaching other folks the game and we started having tournaments.

It got to a point where we started coming to school just for the chess tournaments and not the job training! I played more chess there than I have in my entire life.

We had chess tournaments in college too but those weren't as organized because there was also so much drinking, partying and fucking that had to be done!