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Do we have any secret grandmasters on AB - or even low-graders like me ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I like chess but would not by any stretch of the imagination consider myself a 'Master' - much less a 'Grand' one.
One bit of good news though - I know a few teenagers who have recently half-abandoned their usual games on their phones in favour of playing chess on their phones, either against each other or against the computer. Only half-abandoned, true, but it's encouraging.
One bit of good news though - I know a few teenagers who have recently half-abandoned their usual games on their phones in favour of playing chess on their phones, either against each other or against the computer. Only half-abandoned, true, but it's encouraging.
I once played jim360 via lichess link, I think he won, I blundered, can't remember if we had a rematch or not. You can send a link to anyone to play a game or post the link anywhere including in AB so you can play anonymously. https:/ /liches s.org/
I doubt there are any Grand Masters on AB - to qualify as a Grand Master, you’ have an ELO rating of about 2400.
The chess ELO rating system is based a player having an ELO rating 400 points above their opponent would be expected to score 100% (win all the games), the same ELO rating resulting in a 50% score and a plus 200 ELO rating resulting in a 75% score.
The world chess champion will typically have an ELO rating of around 2800.
I used to play over the board chess for a club and the county first team, but my ELO rating was just over 2000 – so a Grand Master would expect to win virtually every game against me.
I still play chess on-line for the county and have an assigned ELO rating of circa 2150.
Currently the best chess engines have a claimed ELO rating of circa 4000 – and so can beat the human world chess champion with ease.
The chess ELO rating system is based a player having an ELO rating 400 points above their opponent would be expected to score 100% (win all the games), the same ELO rating resulting in a 50% score and a plus 200 ELO rating resulting in a 75% score.
The world chess champion will typically have an ELO rating of around 2800.
I used to play over the board chess for a club and the county first team, but my ELO rating was just over 2000 – so a Grand Master would expect to win virtually every game against me.
I still play chess on-line for the county and have an assigned ELO rating of circa 2150.
Currently the best chess engines have a claimed ELO rating of circa 4000 – and so can beat the human world chess champion with ease.
Hymie; I have two computer chess sets & I could turn one on at a high level for my moves, but that would be pointless cheating - though I guess it's done, and you never know whether the opponent is doing just that in online games.
But I think a suggestion from a friend on AB would not be out of order.
But I think a suggestion from a friend on AB would not be out of order.
Having spent far too long playing chess and analysing chess positions – these are a couple of quotes I totally agree with.
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life. (Paul Morphy)
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. (Raymond Chandler)
The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life. (Paul Morphy)
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. (Raymond Chandler)
Haaa! Well, that's one way to win, Vulcan. That reminds me of someone I used to play Scrabble with. He tried so often to sneak tiles into his hand that had already been laid to use in his next word. More often than not I spotted him doing it - but I don't doubt there were times when he succeeded. Didn't do him a lot of good though. He rarely won. :o)
I have played chess but wasn't much good at it - no real strategy, just off-the-cuff moves. In an effort to try and improve my game, back in the early 80s, i bought a small electrical chess game with differing levels of difficulty computed into it.
I was beaten by the machine more times than i cared to count - even on the 'beginner' level, but one day i thought my luck had changed when i captured it's queen. However, a few moves later, the machine moved it's queen!!! I had taken it but it had reappeared on the board.
I promptly gave the game away:-/
I was beaten by the machine more times than i cared to count - even on the 'beginner' level, but one day i thought my luck had changed when i captured it's queen. However, a few moves later, the machine moved it's queen!!! I had taken it but it had reappeared on the board.
I promptly gave the game away:-/