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Posted on 1/30/16 at 2:11 pm to saint tiger225
Thanks.
It is an interesting game.
I have uncles and cousins who are slap brilliant and live all over the planet and it's nice to be able to play them remotely.
It is an interesting game.
I have uncles and cousins who are slap brilliant and live all over the planet and it's nice to be able to play them remotely.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 2:25 pm to Peazey
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Internet Chess Club
The ICC has been around since the earliest days of the internet and played a key role in the rise and fall of the chekel, which was an early precursor to the bitcoin. For a time the chekel was functional enough that overseas pipeline and oilfield hands were using it to transfer tax-free income back to the States. Of course it was eventually crushed by the powers that be but it left an odd legacy of chess scholars in rough places like West Carrol Parish and Bald Knob, AR
The ICC still today uses an emasculated chekel as a strictly internal currency, but now there are rigid caps on purchases and transfers to prevent its use as an underground currency. I think gambling on games is officially banned as well but those caps leave plenty of room for low/medium stakes.
ETA: I originally spelled it shekel, which is actually the state-backed currency of Israel.
This post was edited on 1/31/16 at 7:37 am
Posted on 1/30/16 at 2:30 pm to saint tiger225
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Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies, its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys -if not the greatest one- of human existence. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must, be intellectually productive and so can share in this select delight. I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity for the man who has no knowledge of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
Siegbert Tarrasch. He has some really good quotes about chess. He was a great chess writer and player around the turn of the last century. He also has another quote from the same book, the classic The Game of Chess, about chess being part art, part science, and part game that I can't find right now.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 2:31 pm to shinerfan
And natives of East Carroll Parish as well.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 2:46 pm to shinerfan
Sounds like an interesting story. I'll have to look more into the history of it.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:15 pm to The Baker
Yep. Peak USCF rating was about 1850, I don't play seriously these days but occasionally fart around on chess.com for some 5+5.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:23 pm to The Baker
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1350 is really good man. To me at least.
OT dumb.
Posted on 1/30/16 at 3:57 pm to The Baker
I'm down for an OT chess tournament. I play on the chess heroes iPhone app
Posted on 1/30/16 at 4:55 pm to The Baker
CloakedMistborn is my name
Posted on 1/31/16 at 7:20 am to The Baker
Haven't played in a while, but at one point that's all I did all day.
This post was edited on 1/31/16 at 7:21 am
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