The Official Chess Thread

[Pabst16oz]

Ok post here at midnight and we can set up that tourney room 1 spot.

 

[iMajor]

I'm loading the room now

 

[Pabst16oz]

I'm loading the room now

What's your username?

 

[iMajor]

im at table 1

 

[iMajor]

who else plays 1000000000000000000000000 min chess?

 

[Pabst16oz]

who else plays 1000000000000000000000000 min chess?

Some people actually have attention spans longer than 0.000000000000000000000001 mins ..

 

[iMajor]

Breh. Like I said whether we play 1 min or 60min you gonna lose you're just taking a longer time realizing that when it's 60.

 

[pete clemenza]

I haven't played in probably two years.. I was average at best

 

[Pabst16oz]

When you sign up to a chess website(s) , I still HIGHLY recommend Free Internet Chess Server (FICS), give me your usernames and i will list them in the first post.

 

[SuburbanPimp]

I started playing in college an got to be pretty good. I would play damn near daily. After that not s much. None my friends were interested. I found its a great tool which females tho, offering to teach them how to play. My current lady doesn't like and I have one potna that plays and we go at it like once a month but I want to play more often.

Poker and Chess are probably my favorite "games" to play..

 

[Pabst16oz]

The World Chess Championship 2012 is a match between the current world champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the Candidates tournament. The match started on 10 May and is expected to end on 30 May 2012. It is played in the Engineering Building of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia and will determine the World Chess Champion. The match is held under the auspices of FIDE, the World Chess Federation. The prize fund is 2.55 million US Dollars.

The defending champion is Anand, having held the title since 2007. He last defended his title by winning the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov. The challenger is Gelfand, who won the tournament of eight-player Candidate Matches.

The process for selecting the challenger has undergone a number of changes. A major change was announced on 25 November 2008, when it was announced that a two-player Challenger Match would be replaced with an eight-player Candidates' Tournament. The change was criticised by a number of players and commentators, as well as by the Association of Chess Professionals. In November 2010, then world No. 2 Magnus Carlsen withdrew from the Candidates' Tournament.

World Chess Championship 2012 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Viswanathan Anand (2791 World No.4)- defending champion

vs.


Boris Gelfand (2727 World No.20)- challenger

Match series *update*
World Chess Championship

World Chess Championship 2012
Game Players Result Opening # moves Aggregate
Anand - Gelfand
1 Anand - Gelfand 0,5 - 0,5 Gruenfeld Defence 24 0,5 - 0,5
2 Gelfand - Anand 0,5 - 0,5 QGD Meran Def. 25 1 - 1
3 Anand - Gelfand 0,5 - 0,5 Neo Gruenfeld Defence 37 1.5 - 1.5
4 Gelfand - Anand 0,5 - 0,5 QGD Meran Def. 34 2 - 2
5 Anand - Gelfand 0,5 - 0,5 Sicilian Def. Pelican 35 2 - 2
6 Gelfand - Anand 0,5 - 0,5 QGD Meran Def. 29 2.5 - 2.5
7 Gelfand - Anand 1 - 0 QGD Meran Def. 38 4 - 3
8 Anand - Gelfand 01 - 0 Sicilian Def. Pelican 17 4 - 4
9 Gelfand - Anand 0,5 - 0,5 Nimzo Indian 49 4.5 - 4.5
10 Anand - Gelfand 0,5 - 0,5 Sicilian Rossolimo 25 5 - 5
11 Gelfand - Anand 0,5 - 0,5 Nimzo Indian 24 5.5 - 5.5
12 Anand - Gelfand 0,5 - 0,5 Sicilian Rossolimo 22 6 - 6
Tie break games
TB-1 Gelfand - Anand 0,5 - 0,5 QGD: semi-Slav 32 0.5 - 0.5
TB-2 Anand - Gelfand 1 - 0 Sicilian Rossolimo 77 1.5 - 0.5
TB-3 Gelfand - Anand 0,5 - 0,5 QGD: semi-Slav 61 2 - 1
TB-4 Anand - Gelfand 0,5 - 0,5 Sicilian Canal-Sokolsky 56 2.5 - 1.5

Chess news and headlines
Results & Games - Anand-Gelfand - FIDE World Chess Championship 2012

 

[Pabst16oz]

ya'll got ill chest sets or what? mine is a grand

I wish I did.. I've got a sapele/maple inlaid framed veneer board,
with golden rosewood/boxwood staunton chess pieces; dropped a buck on it about 5 yrs ago.

The Lord Linley Chess Set and Chess Table & at that price...

 

[ZEB WALTON]

i play chess with a friend i make beats with inbetween sessions. its a great game that i never understood until recently. before i just moved and tried to play the spots but now i organize my moves more carefully to keep dude guessing what im up to.

my favorite way to play though is on some type of clock. we set up a timer for like 15 seconds to make a move. game gets very interesting when you dont have time to think.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

I wanna get back into playing chess.

 

[Pabst16oz]

ChessBomb | 2012-wcc: 08-Anand_Viswanathan-Gelfand_Boris


Anand tied the series 4-4 today as white, opening in a Queen's pawn gambit. Gelfand started off solid positionally in a Sicilian but, with questionable knight play, attacked and fell short. Great counterplay by Anand left blacks queen "in da bushes", forcing Gelfand to resign.