chess

[tania]

what a wicked game eh?
but this is not what i was going to say..
why do chess and music share soooo many terms?
attack, anticipation, phase,echo,
play, piece, notation, score, tempo, theme, variation, development, minimal composition, round, major and minor, position, second, retrograde,mirror,composer,com position,transposition the list is blhady endless...
i mean christ, there must be some connection there, dont u think?

[Mirsha]

I'm sure the same is true of a lot of classical board games, whether you fit the term into the game in it's meaning or it already exists. At a rough guess though I'd say it had something to do with the fact that back in ye olden days chess, like music, was something only limited to a certain part of society, and it was those people that played the games and was part of the musical society. It's no wonder that people would transfer words from one to other if they can view a game as being like a musical performance, and act of skill and talent to produce a powerful result.

[KaOz]

i played alot chess in my life... but in the last year i got a lover of Japanese Go

[pille'ocheoni]

i used to play alot when i was younger. my best friend won national championships once. i was fair in the game, no pro. but i still play often with my pops. its strange but your right. i wish i got as much support with music as i did with chess.

[tania]

japanese go?
never played that. aparenly its the most ancient game in the world.
might give go a go i guess..

[Mirsha]

Go is a stunning game, it's so much fun to watch people play unlike chess simply as they whole game has this momentus sense of dynamic which haunts the board. You can see all the little moves as over time they start to work into one pattern which suddenly starts to emerge.

Apparantly Go grand masters can tell the whole direction of a game after 7 moves, something which must require unbelievable amounts of skill to do given the fact Go is a N-complete problem.

[KaOz]

have this
http://www.hebsackerverlag.de/ebay/hvangebot_weihnachten04_2.jpg

[Sheridan]

I love chess but I was never any good at it. granted I didn't really practice a whole lot and I never got any instruction. but it is enjoyable none the less. I have a really nice wooden set my mom got me once. the only problem is I don't know a single person who plays it.

[Daddys Girl]

one of my uncle's is a keen chess player - he was teaching me how to play it during the christmas holidays... I'm rubbish @ it really, but I suppose that's something to improve upon over the new year.

[nikrem]

dont let bez get near that go set

[invisibleplanet]

u forgot the eight row/octave thingy
imperial concert grand pianos have eight octaves
kewl eh

[tania]

wow!
i didn't forget this, just didn't think about it.
it is cool indeed.

[pille'ocheoni]

go is insane to learn i think.

[V Knid esq]

Eek my brother was trying to teach me to play Chinese chess at Xmas... I can't even manage the 'normal' version...

[Hagbard]

I'm terrible at Chess. It's of those things I should enjoy based on most of my interests... but I'm terrible at it and never give it any time...

[komakid]

Originally posted by V Knid esq
Eek my brother was trying to teach me to play Chinese chess at Xmas... I can't even manage the 'normal' version...

i'm pretty good in chinese chess. a friend of mine is a freak for asian games ang tought me how to play it. but i never managed the traditional chess, the chinese version is much easier.

[V Knid esq]

Originally posted by KaOz
have this
http://www.hebsackerverlag.de/ebay/hvangebot_weihnachten04_2.jpg

Go is a mind-frying game.

You know chess drives people insane... there are so many stories of grand masters just being the maddest most fucked up people... just google Bobby Fischer for the classic mentalo scenario.

[bracket]

Ive been taught chess a few times but cant seem to get me napper round it. Backgammons for me....


....or pass the pigs ;)

[thomas hooked]

i used to play a lot of go. haven't played it in years though. maybe i'll relearn

[pongoid]

Go smokes! I've played it a bit. It's fucking hard to do well. A friend of mine who is quite mental is rather good at it and taught me some. I really should get back into that one. As for chess, it was never meant to be and aristocrat's game. It was a warrior's game for teaching strategy. All of Alexander's officers, and most of his troops were excellent players of chess. It's a large part of why they were able to conquer so much, and over such great distances. Tactics and foresight. Good stuff. Related to music? Inasmuch as action throughout time, requiring coordination and articulation to be effective would be. More so?

*shrugs



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