11.30.08

Best online places to play and learn chess

Posted in Daily life, Games at 7:42 am by LeisureGuy

I haven’t talked much about chess, though I was an enthusiast (of no great strength) for years. Here’s a good list of chess sites.

2 Comments »

  1. scott said,

    30 November 2008 at 10:58 am

    Although I’ve always been a bad player, I once read up on the subject pretty thoroughly–or so I thought. Imagine my embarrassment when playing at a cafe with my step-kids, one of them advanced her pawn to my end of the board and announced that it was now a queen. I insisted that this was not a real rule of chess, and even bet her $20 that it wasn’t. Of course when I pulled out the iPhone and googled it on the spot I had to fork over the $20. Ouch!

  2. LeisureGuy said,

    30 November 2008 at 11:16 am

    I have one set that came with two Queens, for those occasions when a second Queen is called for. I wonder if any master games ended up with one side having more than two Queens on the board at any time.


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