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by Pendulum
Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:38 am
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

by Pendulum
Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:40 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

Don't offer the trade when you're down a rook and two pawns, Blackhound... You nearly had her!

Still, I don't think he'll go for it.
I will admit, it's a tempting offer, especially considering that he'd have to reset his Knight to seal the deal, but yeah I think my Alice has a few moves left in her. Love this game state, though, Blackhound's just pushing his whole board forward one rank at a time.
by Pendulum
Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:35 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

by Pendulum
Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:56 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

by Pendulum
Tue Apr 23, 2013 1:43 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

Hmm. Well shit, I probably shouldn't make moves before I've had my morning coffee. 'Snice move.

http://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.p ... -O_Rc3_Qb1*

:dance:
by Pendulum
Tue Apr 23, 2013 12:56 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

I have no idea what is going on in the other game.
I... think they're retelling the Illiad through chess pieces?

:dance:
http://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.p ... _Nf3_O-O-O
by Pendulum
Thu Apr 18, 2013 5:35 am
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

by Pendulum
Mon Apr 15, 2013 7:50 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

by Pendulum
Fri Apr 12, 2013 10:54 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

by Pendulum
Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:27 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
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These games are a perfect example of why I love Chess: I love watching different play styles interact. I also love a good queen hunt. :)
by Pendulum
Wed Apr 03, 2013 8:22 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

For convenience, I will be adding the :dance: emoticon to me and Blackhound's game.

:dance:

http://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.p ... 4_Nxc4_Qd5
by Pendulum
Tue Apr 02, 2013 9:25 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

Oh, sick chess-related burn!
by Pendulum
Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:48 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

http://www.apronus.com/chess/wbeditor.p ... 6_Nd2_Bxc4

Too bad, really, was looking forward to a good game of stack-'em-up. ^_^
by Pendulum
Sun Mar 31, 2013 8:30 am
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

Sorry about the flipped board, I didn't get the whacky system at first.
by Pendulum
Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:41 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

I can start a game, Blackhound. I'll let you pick color.
by Pendulum
Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:13 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

See what I don't get, and hopefully Blackhound can provide us some insight here, is why he spent a turn getting that pawn out, then ran the Bishop up to put you in the early check and just have the bishops stare at each other until you got frustrated at having it clogging your board, but like, I dunno, thought better of it and retreated the next turn?
by Pendulum
Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:42 am
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

It's got some long Polish name, that's all I can remember. I figured he was just trying to sac off the pawn and go all Gruul Stomp on the board with the Rooks.
by Pendulum
Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:15 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

Maybe this time go deeper into the spam? Or the ignorance of it?
Spoilered 'cuz related but walls of text cut into game time
Well, perhaps I can answer your question best with one of my own. What is an "internet mad?" It's something I never understood very well, and outside of the MTGverse I haven't heard the phrase used un-ironically since, like, 2006. It doesn't really make sense to me that the transfer medium for the angering stimulus should make one bit of difference as to the reaction to it (if simply from an evolutionary standpoint), and this is a view shared by almost everyone I recognized to be of worth over on chess.com. See, you couldn't flame people, of course, and
trying to convince someone that they're being an asshat was an uphill battle, so the most common response to any sort of asshattery was to spam the everliving hell out of them, which (again, considering that these were chess nerds who didn't differentiate between IRL mad and Internet Mad) proved an effective method both for letting the person know they'd pissed you off, as well as letting them know you found their stance... questionable.

There was one memorable incident where some chess dad posted in the Queens thread musing on the justification of, get this, abusing his kid to make him better at chess. It was, as you can imagine, a galvanizing issue divided quite clearly between the people who wanted to know the guy's address so they could call Child Services, and the people who could produce quite a body of evidence that, yes, giving your child strong negative response to failure made them fail less often. Now either side couldn't just say "You're a terrible
person" or accuse the other side of lying, as those were both infractable, but it was for some of us an important enough topic that the idea of simply walking away wasn't a desirable action. Thus spamming the opposition into oblivion became our weapon of choice, and it worked well there, especially the practice of using far too few words to validate your own stance; I've always had a problem understanding why that form of attack pattern loses its validity when someone can just seemingly turn their brains to "internet mode" and dismiss your veiled accusations.
by Pendulum
Fri Mar 22, 2013 5:30 am
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

There used to be a thread on chess.com named Chess Queens that was essentially the Open Site Blathering of that site. It was in the "Values" section of the site, which they retired in 2008 or so (and much drama was had), so unfortunately I can't link to it, but basically it was decided that, unlike other pieces, there was no real way to determine if a Queen was worth 9 points*, so the thread quickly devolved into a spam thread with the notable exception that the posters there were, well, posting on a chess bulletin board so they had already admitted they had no lives and therefore the thread was an epic testament to all things nerdery, especially considering that in its hay-day the site got over 3,000 unique posters. The thing I remember most is the ongoing "is it okay to hit on your opponent" debate, followed closely by the Pro-Fischer/Anti-Fischer debates and the Kasparov-Humanitarian discussion, and of
course the "is it okay to pee your pants if it wins you the game" conversation, but in reality it just gave me a reason to appreciate spam on levels most of you whippersnappers will never know.

*-The thing about trading a queen for 9 points worth of other pieces is that, of course, it also involves using moves to do so.
by Pendulum
Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:25 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

I concur. Browsing the site from work with the name as it is might be just a bit too much of a minefield.
by Pendulum
Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:10 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

Although the idea of a boxing chess thread has potential, I'll admit. Whoever loses the chess match has to travel to the winner's house. It'd be like a meet-and-greet except with a bunch more punching.
by Pendulum
Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:00 pm
Forum: Other Onsite Entertainment
Topic: Chess Queens
Replies: 175
Views: 61319

I sure do!

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