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[V1LÆM]

before watching it (it's The Queen's Gambit on Netflix) all i knew was what harry potter taught me. i knew how pawns and knights moved but that's about it.

started playing on chess.com doing the lessons and i've been having fun with it. i want to learn more but their lessons are mostly locked behind a paywall. you can only do 1 lesson a week for free. it'd take me until end of July just to finish the beginner ones and until March 2023 to do them all. anyone got recommedations of lessons i can do without paying? maybe a youtube channel or something.

i've been playing against people online but i suck. i also bought a cheap set off ebay to play. i just want to get better but don't really know where to go.

if you just started playing then how are you getting on?

 

[GreyHorace]

I like watching chess, but not playing it sadly. Never could wrap my head around the numerous strategies and nuances of the game.

The Queen's Gambit though did a good job portraying why the game inspires such devotion and study.

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Is that show any good? I ignored it because yawn, yet another woman overcoming patriarchy blahblah.

At any rate, I'm not a particular fan of chess. It's good for making you better at chess.

 

[jufonuk]

I tried but, I’m better at checkers/draughts lol.
I’ve downloaded a chess app so will try and play that.

 

[Jethalal]

I know the rules and everything but the game never clicked for me. I don't think I'll be playing it anytime soon.

 

[GreyHorace]

Is that show any good? I ignored it because yawn, yet another woman overcoming patriarchy blahblah.

At any rate, I'm not a particular fan of chess. It's good for making you better at chess.

It's pretty good, with a great lead performance from Anya Taylor Joy. And it's based on a novel written in 1983 so it doesn't really have any current year wokeness. The main character just happens to be a woman and it's really not made a big deal out of for the most part.

 

[jufonuk]

I know the rules and everything but the game never clicked for me. I don't think I'll be playing it anytime soon.

I’m worried I’ll also turn into the people in the series. I will suddenly think I’m above everyone because I play chess.
Yeah I listen to Jazz already.

 

[Tesseract]

i got tired of it when i was a kid

still play now and again

 

[Jethalal]

I’m worried I’ll also turn into the people in the series. I will suddenly think I’m above everyone because I play chess.
Yeah I listen to Jazz already.

I have been mocked by my schoolmates who were good at chess and rubbed it on my face. Stay safe, such people are vile creatures.

 

[jufonuk]

It's pretty good, with a great lead performance from Anya Taylor Joy. And it's based on a novel written in 1983 so it doesn't really have any current year wokeness. The main character just happens to be a woman and it's really not made a big deal out of for the most part.

Also if nice she sorts her fringe out she gets hot.
Yeah I think she is hot.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Nah, I never had a partner to play chess even though I got it as a Christmas gift many years ago and I'm not really interested in playing online.

 

[jufonuk]

I have been mocked by my schoolmates who were good at chess and rubbed it on my face. Stay safe, such people are vile creatures.

You should have hit them in the nuts. Then mock then for not seeing that far ahead. But all joking aside. It does seem like a game that isn’t beginner friendly and those that are good at it seem so intent on proving they are superior. I think a lot of bullied people take it up then go mad/arrogant when they are told they are good at it.

 

[jason10mm]

It's really good. There is some "men are bad" nonsense bit it gets over it pretty quick. If anything most of the men are NOT hitting on her and she has to constantly initiate sex.

My main complaint is they rarely show a game in a way so viewer can follow WHY her moves are so good, at least if you can't follow the chess speak a commentator sometimes uses. Would it have been so hard to show a historic game or something?

 

[jufonuk]

I refuse to believe chess was ever that much of thing like it is portrayed in the series like jet set lifestyle. Chess review magazine. Maybe it was but now it’s niche

 

[Jethalal]

I refuse to believe chess was ever that much of thing like it is portrayed in the series like jet set lifestyle. Chess review magazine. Maybe it was but now it’s niche

Not hard to believe it was IMO. Average bloke used to read books for entertainment but nowadays people who read non-curriculum books are considered 'intelligent'.

 

[GreyHorace]

I refuse to believe chess was ever that much of thing like it is portrayed in the series like jet set lifestyle. Chess review magazine. Maybe it was but now it’s niche

It was very much a big thing back then, especially during the Cold War. US Champion Bobby Fischer was pretty much a rockstar after beating Russian champion Boris Spassky and is probably the biggest inspiration for Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit.

 

[INC]

I'm married

So already have to play 4d chess, sometimes the moves don't happen for years either, that beats any chess master

 

[jufonuk]

Not hard to believe it was IMO. Average bloke used to read books for entertainment but nowadays people who read non-curriculum books are considered 'intelligent'.

I still read for entertainment. But I realised all the English books inside to get set for school except for “to kill a mocking bird”and “I know why the cage bird sings.” Were rubbish. Shakespeare does my head in. So I wasn’t considered a good student.

INC im married also. But it doesn’t matter as my moves are always wrong. Hahahah a married joke.

also chess and the Cold War thing makes sense. So ok I was wrong. That’s cool that we learnt this

 

[Jethalal]

I still read for entertainment. But I realised all the English books inside to get set for school except for “to kill a mocking bird”and “I know why the cage bird sings.” Were rubbish. Shakespeare does my head in. So I wasn’t considered a good student.

Oh even I do. I feel more satisfied after reading a book than watching a movie, show or play a game. It's just that people just don't read sadly. Maybe it's the devices shortening our attention spans.
I didn't mind the Shakespeare ones but most are terrible. The Hellen Keller Biography was very tough to go through. So BORING! ugh and it was so short too but felt longer than Stephen King epics.

 

[BigBooper]

I like playing against other amateurs. It gets annoying when people are really good because they just follow the script to victory, playing the move they memorized would be best. High level chess is boring to me. Better to play Russian roulette with a marshmallow gun.

 

[*Nightwing]

Tried to get into chess in my late teens/early twenties cause older wiser people told me it is the best training tool for strategy to improve in military battle, physical combat, even sports strategy... after about 2 hours a day practicing, and reading up on chess strategies over about 3 monthsI realized how wrong they were.

I hate chess with a passion (but i guess i hate all board games), it fails as an entertaining game and fails to account for actual strategies that work that call for thinking outside the box like guerrilla warfare. Chess is a good past time I guess if you like drawn out board games whose purpose is only to reward patientience. If you want to get better at strategy, practice what you want to be better at strategy in, not a board game.

Every lesson learned in chess is far more instructive, relevant and valuable learning by practicing wargames in battlefeilds, sparring in a ring, or actually playing on a pitch. Chess is masturbation for the mind, it will help improve strategy a bit but useless for those who want real world expertise IMO.

 

[GeorgPrime]

before watching it (it's The Queen's Gambit on Netflix) all i knew was what harry potter taught me. i knew how pawns and knights moved but that's about it.

started playing on chess.com doing the lessons and i've been having fun with it. i want to learn more but their lessons are mostly locked behind a paywall. you can only do 1 lesson a week for free. it'd take me until end of July just to finish the beginner ones and until March 2023 to do them all. anyone got recommedations of lessons i can do without paying? maybe a youtube channel or something.

i've been playing against people online but i suck. i also bought a cheap set off ebay to play. i just want to get better but don't really know where to go.

if you just started playing then how are you getting on?

The kid of my friend is 7 years old and she already loves to play chess. She learned at it school. I guess she would love to watch it when she is a bit older

 

[Hudo]

Chess looks like the mobile version of FF12's license board.

 

[BigBooper]

Tried to get into chess in my late teens/early twenties cause older wiser people told me it is the best training tool for strategy to improve in military battle, physical combat, even sports strategy... after about 2 hours a day practicing, and reading up on chess strategies over about 3 monthsI realized how wrong they were.

I hate chess with a passion (but i guess i hate all board games), it fails as an entertaining game and fails to account for actual strategies that work that call for thinking outside the box like guerrilla warfare. Chess is a good past time I guess if you like drawn out board games whose purpose is only to reward patientience. If you want to get better at strategy, practice what you want to be better at strategy in, not a board game.

Every lesson learned in chess is far more instructive, relevant and valuable learning by practicing wargames in battlefeilds, sparring in a ring, or actually playing on a pitch. Chess is masturbation for the mind, it will help improve strategy a bit but useless for those who want real world expertise IMO.

I think that kind of thinking comes from logic problem solving, and I'm assuming everyone here has played video games so already has a lot of exposure to that kind of problem solving.

For some people, they barely use logical problem solving, so they probably could benefit from something like chess. One of my sisters in law barely had any grasp on logical consistency. She's gotten a lot better after being exposed to my brother and getting older.

 

[Cimarron]

Any suggestions for a good chess game in steam? I really liked battle chess back in the day.

 

[Rentahamster]

Is the Queen's Gambit to chess like that one volleyball anime is to volleyball?

 

[Omega Supreme Holopsicon]

before watching it (it's The Queen's Gambit on Netflix) all i knew was what harry potter taught me. i knew how pawns and knights moved but that's about it.

started playing on chess.com doing the lessons and i've been having fun with it. i want to learn more but their lessons are mostly locked behind a paywall. you can only do 1 lesson a week for free. it'd take me until end of July just to finish the beginner ones and until March 2023 to do them all. anyone got recommedations of lessons i can do without paying? maybe a youtube channel or something.

i've been playing against people online but i suck. i also bought a cheap set off ebay to play. i just want to get better but don't really know where to go.

if you just started playing then how are you getting on?

The website I use is lichess.org

Says free chess online. Though not sure if all lessons are truly free.

 

[Jtibh]

If you dont know how to play chess put me on your ignore list.
I want nothing to do with you. Lol


Problem is i love playing chess. Sadly no one around wants to or knows to.

Sad generation.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

I've always dabbled in the game against family (my parents taught me a little and myself teaching my kids somewhat), also a little with friends and rarely online. I enjoy having a physical set to play with rather than online, it's one my brother handmade out of wood decades ago. I'm a beginner/intermediate at best.

Funny I just jumped on Chess.com for a free game from this thread and made a player resign with just a rook and a pawn; took his two knights, a bishop, some pawns and sacrificed my queen to kill his for basically checkmate. That was fun and probably enough chess for me to quit while I'm ahead.

As for Queen's Gambit, it's a wonderful show I enjoyed and then roped my wife in as she had a rough up bringing and I thought she's like it. Gold, she just binged the show over the last two weeks and loved it too.

 

[Rival]

I have always known “how” to play chess but I’m not very good.

 

[Papa]

FYI MiyazakiHatesKojima would beat OP at chess

 

[Every Flamingo]

Like others, I know how to play, but never actually learned any sort of advanced tactics/techniques. I just know how the pieces can move, and what you need to do to try and win lol.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

My main complaint is they rarely show a game in a way so viewer can follow WHY her moves are so good, at least if you can't follow the chess speak a commentator sometimes uses. Would it have been so hard to show a historic game or something?

Chess is a perfect information game based on pattern recognition. I read somewhere the best chess players think on average 8 moves ahead going through all the different permutations of potential moves.

Showing 'historical game' would be for nothing - it's kinda like listening and playing EVE Online. There is really no answer to 'why was X a good move' in chess other that 'because you can do those 5 things now, and it denies your opponent XYZ'.

Also I'm pretty sure all her games were a snippets of actual historical games.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

before watching it (it's The Queen's Gambit on Netflix) all i knew was what harry potter taught me. i knew how pawns and knights moved but that's about it.

started playing on chess.com doing the lessons and i've been having fun with it. i want to learn more but their lessons are mostly locked behind a paywall. you can only do 1 lesson a week for free. it'd take me until end of July just to finish the beginner ones and until March 2023 to do them all. anyone got recommedations of lessons i can do without paying? maybe a youtube channel or something.

i've been playing against people online but i suck. i also bought a cheap set off ebay to play. i just want to get better but don't really know where to go.

if you just started playing then how are you getting on?

I have a 237 score on Chess.com

Come at me, Bitch.

 

[Herr Edgy]

Anyone who says me should start watching anime

 

[Roxkis_ii]

I played chess when I was younger, but my lil sister destroyed me so completely, I lost my will to play and gave it up.

Sometimes I think to pick it up again, but I don't have the motivation to get good. It's sad, but I think it's hard to really play any competitive games casually on the internet.

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[finowns]

I’ve played off and on for years. I’m like a 1300. But I broke 1600 in the puzzle game on the chess app.

 

[jason10mm]

Also I'm pretty sure all her games were a snippets of actual historical games.

Probably were, just to make filming easy. My point is that they never show more than one or two moves so it is hard, as a viewer, to really follow a game. They cut in and out throughout every game in the show. I feel like the viewers could have handled more chess in the show and less of Anna staring intently into the camera.

 

[GymWolf]

When you get bored with normal chess you can try 3d chess

Spoiler

 

[nush]

I did try to learn chess after that Netflix show but it was too difficult. Now I'm trying to learn how to meltdown Russian nuclear reactors, seems much easier.

 

[Lanrutcon]

Ah, chess. Totally ripped off Starcraft, btw.