I hereby dislike chess.

[Cargando]

No, there is a [i/]lot[/i] of strategies in chess, just watch a vid of two pros playing and you'll see.

And I do enjoy it.

 

[Azraellod]

It'd save a hell of a lot of lives if generals just played chess instead of actually getting soldiers to fight.

i actually had that thought when i was about 9. why don't people just settle wars with chess tournaments?

i now know the answers.

edited thanks to a quoting accident.

 

[megapenguinx]

No, you just suck at it. Stop complaining. Either practise or stop playing. Whiner.

My fellow Californian is right, stop complaining about it just because you're not good at it.
If everyone complained about every game they were bad at, this forum would be filled with threads until it exploded into a million gazillion pieces of code.

 

[bluepilot]

You just need some practice

Rules call for strategy, because no matter what the situation, there will always be limitations, you cannot always win through the strenght of an ambush.

Try out different strategies, try to see what risks pay off and what risks don`t. Chess is more about reading the opponant and trying to understand their next moves, rather than reading a board.

If all else fails, just tip over the board and have a hissy fit.

 

[Legion]

Well, your not alone in hating chess. Edgar Alan Poe disliked the game too, although for different reasons than you. He thought the overcomplicated motions distracted from proper analysis of the game, and thus checkers was a better game. But I don't see where you're getting at. Every game has rules. What kind of game would it be if everybody made up whatever bullshit came to mind?

Player 1: "I move my knight forward to take your bishop."
Player 2: "My king has a bazooka and kills all your pawns!"
Player 1: "My queen has a heat-seeking missile and takes your king, checkmate"


I think it would work.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

White has an advantage so it isn't that both sides are equal. I don't exactly love the game because being really good at it involves memorising a large amount of moves so you can work out what to do. That's some serious self inflicted brain damage.

 

[PureChaos]

chess is a great game and there is plenty of strategy with the rules. it's the rules that make strategy compulsory

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Chess is and always will be one of the greatest games ever because it is one of few that has no aspect of luck.

Dice games shouldn't exist. I hate games that ultimately are decided by luck. Risk is one of them. It's fun and all, but theoretically a 2-man army could defeat a 25-man army. My friend has seen it happen.

 

[TaborMallory]

No, you're probably just really bad at chess.

 

[Arrogancy]

"Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art."
-Napolean Bonaparte

At this point anything I say would just be repeating what everyone else has said, so I'll say this: Chess has been a game that has shaped the ages, like it or not it involves strategy and improves one's ability to think. It's ability to do this derives from the rules and limitations set on it. As such I believe I speak for most-everyone out there in saying Shut up and deal with it.

 

[logiman]

I like chess..i`ve even been at the nationals in 2005 or 2004 i belive.
The main reason i like it is because winning is not based on luck like most board or card games.
No lucky dice or lucky draw.

 

[spuddyt]

So you want chess to give you 5 queens and the opponent nothing but pawns?

 

[Housebroken Lunatic]

why don't people just settle wars with chess tournaments?

Because war isn't a game, it's about eliminating the opposition from existence.

 

[RagnorakTres]

What kind of game would it be if everybody made up whatever bullshit came to mind?

Actually, I've played a couple games like that. They were very fun in a room of intellectuals, but notably boring when my opponents were less than clever.

Nomic [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm#intro] was one of them, I can't remember what the other one was. I remember that it was less intellectual than Nomic, but just as fun. It was an Uno-like rule stacking card game where the winner of the last round got to make up a new rule and the rules could not be told to new players. Supremely amusing.

Aaannyway...

The key to chess is to lose to people better than you. A lot. All of your points are invalid, for the multitude of reasons listed above. It's a game of analysis and strategy, not of life.

 

[Pandalisk]

WHAT? chess is awesome man, watcha on about? sure it takes an age for other players to make a move but its still brilliant.

no for this is as a war should be

on a table in a game played fairly

If a commander thought like that he would be fired.

You'd think he was born In the 1600's wouldnt you?

Napoleon Changed shit, get with times.

 

[wolfy098]

Chess is and always will be one of the greatest games ever because it is one of few that has no aspect of luck.

Dice games shouldn't exist. I hate games that ultimately are decided by luck. Risk is one of them. It's fun and all, but theoretically a 2-man army could defeat a 25-man army. My friend has seen it happen.

Never heard the story of the two soldiers that charged through the oods near an enemy encampment but died because they ran out of bullets (can't find the site I found it on)

 

[wolfy098]

no for this is as a war should be

on a table in a game played fairly

If a commander thought like that he would be fired.

If wars were like that they wouldn't have those jobs...

 

[Spirultima]

Joke's on you, pal. Nobody really likes Chess, we just say we do to make you feel dumb for not playing.

Yeah, speaking out your ass, bub, i like chess very much, its a basic test of intellegence, both sides are 100% equal, so its a matter of "who plays better" rather then who has the biggest weapon, i.e. CoD5-olitious.

But war is not who is right, but who is left, and the biggest arsehole always wins, so its different to Chess in that respect.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

1. The game is based upon pure "fairness" and the moment.

no it's not, the trick of chess is to make your opponent move where you want him to, it's not fair you just make it seem to be fair

2. No strategizing truly goes into effect because it's based on a system of "rules" so to speak. No freedom in being allowed to perform as one may.

yes there is, the fact that there is a limitation to what the pieces can do is what cause you to strategize and plan.

3. The game is one big assumption that everyone in life is equal to their adversaries.

ummm isn't any game that way?

as i said the whole goal of chess is to trick your opponent into believing that he is winning and can win before you beat him

 

[Cody211282]

No, you just suck at it. Stop complaining. Either practise or stop playing. Whiner.

ya im going with this