Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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As a bad chess player but love playing it,I have now found the above site and playing other players from around the world you can play a 30min match or a 5day one .My time in the night hours because I do not sleep at nights well I pay chess alot better the TV why not try it ?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I am now moving up the rating
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I had one of those chess computers back in the 80's long before P.C's. there were 8 levels and I got eventually to level 5 before I was out of my depth. The difference against playing another human is the machine is programmed so each time I moved to another level it was because I got used to being beaten and knew what moves it would make.
Great fun though and thoroughly absorbing.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I am not playing a machine but public from all round the world.Try it just won from a person in the USA.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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jUST WON AGAIN THAT MATCH WAS OVER 24HRS but most are over 30mins My rating now is 1334 the higher you go the better you are 1334 sounds high but it is not that high some are well over 10.000 so along way to go yet.You can pick how long you wish the match to last from 2mins to five days.
You can play up to four match,s at the same time .
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Guest 1555- Registered: 23 Jul 2015
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Hi Vic,
I used to play Chess at school about fifty years ago. I found it a fascinating game. Recently I began to think about redesigning the Chess board for the family environment. Using the conventional Chess boards in the first two games where four family members can play the conventional Chess game facing each other North and South and playing alongside each other. When the two winners from the first Chess games are decided. The winners will take the pieces that are left on the board. Place them on the new board in their special rank. The new board includes the two conventional boards plus two extra ranks. The final battle is played in an East and West direction. The new board I have designed under copyright has 144 squares and 18 ranks with incentives for any pawns that manage to reach their opponent's back rank. My idea was to try to interest new players in a game where a whole family of Mum, Dad. and two kids can play together in an evening. However, without changing the conventional Chess rules as they are. This game is designed to bring the family together and gain the interest of new players, young or old to progress from there. Which conventional Chess does not. NONE of the CHESS rules as to piece moves, have been changed, either in the conventional games or in the final battle games... Except the final battle has an extra two ranks of pieces, one to each side, 144 squares to play in. Each square with its own number like in conventional Chess... As a chess player. what do you think, has it got possibilities? John.
I have been in Dover since coming over from India in 1947 when all the British nationals had to leave. I went to St Mary's School in Queen Steet Dover, which no longer exists. I do not like the changes being done to the Dover seafront by people who do not really have the town's people at heart. I used to play in the rock pools with my twin brother under the prince of Wales Pier and had my first job in Dover painting the wrought iron legs, which are now filled in with concrete.
I feel a sense of loss at what The Dover Harbour board is contemplating. If the Yacht Marina is moved out of the inner harbour and into the bay it will become just another rubbish dump. It is obvious that big business is moving in against the wishes of the Dover people.
I worked at the Dover Harbour Board for thirteen years on the small boats before I retired in 2003 as a survey and environmental cox'n. The last ten yearssurveying the bottom of the harbour and its approaches. I know the tides and the bottom better than my own hand...and a lot of silt moving out there. If they fill the Granville Docks in, where I used to help unload fruit boats in the good old days. It will just become another huge lorry park in the future.
I also think the small boats are open to abuse by the swarms of immigrants coming over from France and further afield. With fewer customs, once the immigrants twig there is another way in they will take it. I have been to sea in three Merchant Navies since 1959 and have always believed Britain, being an island should have had a container fleet Merchant Navy manned by british sailors, the best in the world, trading with its Commonwealth. The Greek fiasco has proved the politicians cannot be trusted,nor the big Banks, to have any intrest in the working people of Britain, only in themselves... Who owns the town, is it business interests in Europe, the Harbour Board, or is there a hidden agenda. What is the plan for the Western approaches from Shakespeare Cliff to the Admiralty pier. QUESTIONS have to be asked and honest ANSWERS given. Already European countries have huge interests in our utilities and other, used to be publicily owned, businesses. We may as well not had a war, not when we are being slowly taken over by foreign interests. Britain was once a country to be proud of and brave people defended its honour and died for it. I am seventy-seven years old now and retired. I still remember the gaps left in the high street by German bombers, and those Dover people whomust have lost their lives there. Just what did my father and those brave people fight for? I had the honour of sailing with two or three merchant seamen in the fifties and sixties, who had actually been in the water a number of times after being torpedoed. Over fifty thousand seamen died and thousands of our Navy, Airmen, and Army died for our freedom. Will the young remember them when those left are gone. I no longer free free any more, only a sense of foreboding for our younger generation.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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well it might work if you log into Chess .co. put your views and plan over you never know. Thank you for your post sir.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Not much rest, because I am playing members from all over the world and about four at the same time means our time is not same as their so up all hours trying to fit the match,s in
and not winning some of them
but great fun.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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O Dear, Sometime now I have not had a win or even a draw.
