Any Chess Players Here?

[Bruce Tackett]

Something else to do while at home. I like this site: chess.cool/play/with_computer.html

[macky]

I played it a lot when I was a kid, and later for a while in my twenties. I never played an intelligent game, as such. Rather I would target key pieces of my opponent and try and knock them off while minimalizing my own losses, finally whittling the game down to maybe four or five pieces collectively, hopefully more of them on my side, before going in for the checkmate.

It was a psychological game inasmuch it depended largely on my opponent being rattled when he saw a rook or queen suddenly disappear while absorbed in his own strategy, much like guerilla warfare, striking unexpectedly at a target while setting up a decoy elsewhere, then quickly withdrawing.  The opponent's rattling often resulting in him making a rash move which would further allow me to knock something else important of his off the board.  It also resulted in quite a few games my opponent resigning before checkmate. I was never up against accomplished serious chess players.

And the strategy worked only with a human opponent, because playing up against a computer which does the exact move per its program, no such emotion is possible.

The best result I ever had after many losses playing against a computer was holding it to a draw.  

[chanduthemagician]

I played a lot when I was younger. Actually bought on of the move clock things a few years back. It's probably going to get brought out. My family has been playing cards or board games a couple of times a week. I'm fortunate, not all families can tolerate being confined, but I think it's strengthening us and I hope that is the case for all of you as well.

[Dave Reslo]

I was never any good at chess, and am delighted you found a chess program with an easy enough setting.