Playing chess.

[Cloud Breaker]

Question. Does anyone play chess alone?

 

[Ingolifs]

I did, once. But I found I kept on anticipating my own moves.

 

[Kobrag]

Define alone. Do you mean with only one organic player, or no opponent what so ever?

I only play 'alone' with a computer opponent. I get bored if it is just me

 

[Cloud Breaker]

Define alone. Do you mean with only one organic player, or no opponent what so ever?

I only play 'alone' with a computer opponent. I get bored if it is just me

Now that you mentioned it, I think I'll mean both.

I've never played with a computer opponent. I don't have a partner to play chess with, so I thought to try to play alone, but I guess computer can suffice.

Tell me about it. How do computers play, are they predictable, or are they inhumanly efficient?

 

[Kobrag]

Ussually you can choose the difficulty of a program.

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Depends on the game/software you're using. I can hold my own against a computer, and win half of the games I play, yet my dad pwns me within about 10 moves.

 

[Cloud Breaker]

How's that?

 

[LK]

Because he sucks.

Good computer programs can beat chess grandmasters.

 

[Cloud Breaker]

yet my dad pwns me within about 10 moves.

Because he sucks?

 

[Raz]

He probably means Llandy with that. She doesn't have the word 'female' written on her forehead, y'know.

 

[Worbah]

He probably means Llandy with that. She doesn't have the word 'female' written on her forehead, y'know.

She should.

 

[Sir. Velmu]

If you mean moving units while the opponent isn't looking, then yes.

 

[Sir Devlyn]

Try this one:

http://software.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=222562

 

[Pharaoh Llandy]

Because he sucks.

Good computer programs can beat chess grandmasters.

Because my Dad has 30 more years experience than me of playing chess, therefore he's a better player.

Plus, chess isn't really my thing. I haven't played VS a computer opponent since the Amiga days, which would be about 15 years ago.

Noughts and crosses, however.... now that's a different story.

 

[Cymro]

I've got a rather lovely handheld chess computer from Saitek. The easiest setting seem to thickify the computer in such a way that it mtries to kill its own pieces, whilst the hardest setting takes about 3-4 moves in half an hour.

 

[pentagathus]

Question. Does anyone play chess alone?

You need some freinds.

 

[Rabid Potatoe]

I don't play much chess, I'm terrible at it.

 

[The Napster]

I play chess sometimes so I'm kinda average in it.
I normally play ether against myself (so I can find my flaws)
Or against some of my friend.

 

[Dryvus]

Chess! Altogether a fine board game. I used to have a friend to play with fairly often who was a bit better than I, so I was probably at my best then. I'd gladly play more, but there's no one around.

 

[Orj]

I tried playing chess with myself once. It was a very strange experience. It's difficult to play when your opponent knows your every though. I think it ended in a stalemate.