gewing Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 I liked Archon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 Archon was good, although I played a lot more Archon II. Either one beat the hell out of Battle Chess as a game, though the latter was admittedly entertaining. Today the tech has reached a point where I can't beat my phone at chess, which is just sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 I think I've played like 4 games of chess since my kids were born, so my game has rusted to just about nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 I tend to play tactically rather than strategically, so I pretty much suck at chess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 4, 2016 Report Share Posted October 4, 2016 The Gong Show' Is Returning to TV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted October 5, 2016 Report Share Posted October 5, 2016 Today the tech has reached a point where I can't beat my phone at chess, which is just sad. This is why I advocate erasing the line between humans and machines as quickly as possible--the machines will inevitably take over, and we want the machines and ourselves to be the same thing before that happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted October 5, 2016 Report Share Posted October 5, 2016 Speaking Out Old Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 7, 2016 Report Share Posted October 7, 2016 Save the Vikings pinecone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2016 Football coach fired for punishing child for allegedly bullying teammate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 7, 2016 Report Share Posted October 7, 2016 Save the Vikings "Ja, blån'n må då vara, fast i finn' it åt levra." tkdguy and Old Man 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted October 7, 2016 Report Share Posted October 7, 2016 Budgie Nine: how pride and privilege only get you so far.tl;dr: privileged idiots from Australia got themselves arrested in Malaysia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 7, 2016 Report Share Posted October 7, 2016 Special needs boy set on fire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted October 7, 2016 Report Share Posted October 7, 2016 The Journal was talking about the Rose trial where Rose and two other men attacked a drunken woman. She broke down on the stand and started crying when Rose entered the room and sat at the defendant's table. The defendant's lawyer asked the judge to issue a no crying order. The judge was like No. I am not going to tell her to stop crying, just like I wouldn't tell her to stop breathing. You can make fun of her when its your turn to ask questions. Until deal with it CES Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted October 7, 2016 Report Share Posted October 7, 2016 Alleged whitewashing in new Bruce Lee biopic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 8, 2016 Report Share Posted October 8, 2016 Creepy clowns: Women arrested in US after chasing teens as bizarre trend spreads to Australia http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-08/creepy-clowns-arrested-in-us-as-trend-spreads-to-australia/7915284#ClownLivesMatter Creepy clown trend reaches Victoria, professional clowns launch #ClownLivesMatter movementhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-07/creepy-clown-trend-arrives-in-victoria-police-warn/7913106 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 Were Indigenous Australians the world's first bakers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 This is why I advocate erasing the line between humans and machines as quickly as possible--the machines will inevitably take over, and we want the machines and ourselves to be the same thing before that happens. Since I am not compatible with machines (aka machines have an irrational sun-searing hatred of me) I will die quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 Creepy clowns: Women arrested in US after chasing teens as bizarre trend spreads to Australia http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-08/creepy-clowns-arrested-in-us-as-trend-spreads-to-australia/7915284 #ClownLivesMatter Creepy clown trend reaches Victoria, professional clowns launch #ClownLivesMatter movement http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-07/creepy-clown-trend-arrives-in-victoria-police-warn/7913106 Well, if you dress like a clown around me, you do so at your own risk, or at the risk of activating childhood trauma to be channeled into wrath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 I tend to play tactically rather than strategically, so I pretty much suck at chess. My chess game often devolves into abducting the opposing queen before my gets abducted. And I drive my opponent crazy because I refuse to accept defeat until checkmated, no matter what. (actually I get a thrill out of drawing out a game seeing how long I can avoid such an end, when I know Ive lost). Note: I actually got pissed off, at a chess program on one of my old computers, when the computer would randomly call a "tie" (probably some chess rule that I don't fully contemplate) when I had the computer on the ropes. I would spend the next several minutes of accusing the computer of "cheating" and "cowardice". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 Three repetitions of the same position is among the situations that are defined as a draw. Also, at any point you can demand an opponent checkmate you within 50 moves, but the count resets to zero whenever a capture occurs or a pawn is moved. Failure to do so results in a draw. Both of those are obscure because they rarely get fulfilled in casual games, and also casual players usually don't keep track of things carefully enough to be certain of position repetition or the 50-move count. Besides stalemate (where one side is not in check but has no legal move they can make), the only other way I've seen draws occur is by perpetual check, which is usually a flavor of that three-repetitions thing where one side is repeatedly checking the other and it's just going back and forth between two positions. I have drawn a game by stalemate (and was lucky to get it), but not any of those others. I have agreed to a number of draws, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 Internal combustion engines to be banned in new vehicles by 2030... in Germany. Seriously that's like banning wine in France or idiots in America. tkdguy and Pattern Ghost 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 This can mean only one thing. Rocket Cars. OOOOOOOOHHHHHH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 How about flying cars? What could possibly go wrong? *Insert photo of flaming debris* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 How about flying cars? What could possibly go wrong? Learner drivers. tkdguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylwin13 Posted October 10, 2016 Report Share Posted October 10, 2016 How about flying cars? What could possibly go wrong? Learner drivers. Most drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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