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Question by grim chain: Do rts games make you smarter?
can an real time strategy computer game make you smarter. Because chess is strategy and it playing it makes you smarter.

also if not can rts games make you a better chess player
thats what i meant by smarter. THinking more strategically

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Answer by David M
No but they can make you think more strategically… if you play chess often enough a really hard computer than yes it can make you a really good chess player… i used to do that for practice and i won $ 100 for a chess tournament before… but i stopped…. bottum line… it wont make you smart… just more strategical… and playing chess on the comp may help you… but it depends on how hard the opponent is

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Question by allen chin: Any good free chess server?
I’ve played about a hundred of games or so on Yahoo! chess, and it has pissed me off so many times that I can’t bear it anymore. I’ve played a hacker before where he could keep playing regardless of his timer, several people who afk for an hour just waiting for me to resign, and have seen way too many people who afk in rooms. There have been several times where one of my games have their pieces reset on a game I’ve already played (I start another game and they both get glitched), and way too many times it froze, not to mention the spammers who want people to look at their webcam.

Is there any chess server that is simple (not too many ads or unnecessary things that will make my poor 256 MB computer freeze), free of glitches, free of pop-ups, free as in cost, and has an adequate amount of players, solid players, and anti-cheating software/no hackers? A friendly community also won’t hurt, and if a server is missing any of these things, it’s fine; just make sure there’s not too many flaws. Oh yes, I am using Windows 7. Downloading is not a problem unless the file is greater than 100MB.

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Answer by E. Shawn
Have you tried the free internet chess server?

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Question by : Is chess an art, a sport, or both, or neither?
I’ve started playing chess, and am really enjoying it. I got to thinking how one might categorise chess.
One might be tempted to say it’s an art. After all, at the higher levels of the game there can be genius on display, perhaps akin to a skillful poet.
But then, a powerful computer can beat a chess grandmaster, whereas we can’t readily imagine a computer writing a great poem. So we might be reluctant to say something is an art when it can be ‘mastered’ by a computer.
We might also be tempted to say it’s a sport. There’s a gladiatorial, combative aspect to it.
But some might object that there’s no overtly physical aspect to it. And again arguably it’s difficult to classify something as a sport when a computer can ‘master’ it.
Or perhaps chess can still be regarded as an art, or sport, or both, notwithstanding the fact that a computer can master it?
Or perhaps it is neither art nor sport? And if it is neither, perhaps it belongs to a category all of its own?
What do you think?
Thanks for any answers

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Answer by Jared
Sport

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Question by Tony Montana: Chess (ish) question…?
I have been playing chess for more than 9 years (not frequently). The problem is that whoever I face doesn’t have much experience. I barely play with someone who is better. I want to learn by playing against strong players. I want to have a chess teacher but I am never being encouraged to play chess (at home). My whole family hates this game and my parents won’t let me download any chess software in my computer!
I am currently a first year university student (in ECE) and been playing only in school and university. Never at home. I mostly stay at home. I really love chess!
I forgot to ask question. My question is : What should I do?

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Answer by jobees
I play chess at itsyourturn.com
no down loading need
There other chess site to I think it chess knot or something like that where they rate you. I use to play on it but then when my friend played on my computer they stopped me using the site. To stop people having two accounts.

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Question by Tony Montana: Chess (ish) question…?
I have been playing chess for more than 9 years (not frequently). The problem is that whoever I face doesn’t have much experience. I barely play with someone who is better. I want to learn by playing against strong players. I want to have a chess teacher but I am never being encouraged to play chess (at home). My whole family hates this game and my parents won’t let me download any chess software in my computer!
I am currently a first year university student (in ECE) and been playing only in school and university. Never at home. I mostly stay at home. I really love chess!
I forgot to ask question. My question is : What should I do?

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Answer by jobees
I play chess at itsyourturn.com
no down loading need
There other chess site to I think it chess knot or something like that where they rate you. I use to play on it but then when my friend played on my computer they stopped me using the site. To stop people having two accounts.

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Question by Rorydee: How do you win chess?
Out of about 30 rated games on Pogo, I’ve won one because my opponent lost internet connection. And that’s just the rated game! That doesn’t include non-rated and playing against computers. How can I get good at this game? Experience? Books? Replaying old games based on dictation? I’ve known how to play for years, I’ve just never been good at this game at all.

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Answer by ‘Sunnyside Up’
You learn the game and all its quirks until you know it better than anyone else and then you are the winner.

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Question by Martin H: I have a couple of questions concerning Chess books and Strategies?
I love to play Chess, although I haven’t played competitively since early this year. I let Chess go for awhile and after a few games I lost I fell to 802 in USCF rating from my highest of 1162. Although, if I had kept practicing and not slacking off, I’m confident I could have done much better in the last few tournaments. Anyways, I used to read books for intermediate players from the McKay Chess Library. Which as far as I know is a group of people who make Chess Books For someone around my rating, I would say between 802 and 1162, What Chess books would you recommend for helping me to improve strategies for all three parts of the game, opening, middle and endgames.?

Also, I would like to know, I have a Winboard Chess Program for my computer. I have heard that it is good to practice against computers. Is Winboard a good program to practice against? It doesn’t like point out mistakes or show arrows for moves or anything like some programs do, it’s just you can the computer and I don’t think it has a difficulty setting. So is it good to practice against Winboard? Will it help me improve me game? ANd just so yo don’t forget the first question,

Thanks to all who answer! Stay Safe and God Bless! ! What Chess books would you recommend for helping me to improve strategies for all three parts of the game, opening, middle and endgames?

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Answer by King John dragon-slayer
Hi Martin,

Well, I too went through a similar experience earlier this year. I had quintessentially given up chess for five or six years, until I got this very computer. When I got it, buying it brand new, I had to check out all the games it came with, and chess was one of them. One thing led to another and I ended up getting destroyed by Level 4/10 Chess Titans program. I instantly got back into chess, with my computer being my only rival. I rejoined a chess club I had been in around 2005, and now I’m doing great! I actually just came back from a tournament around 3:00pm.

Anyway, so point is, I was going through what you are going through now, having been out of the chess world for a while.

I’ve found several excellent books in my journey to chess greatness.

There’s always the classics, like the infamous My System – by Aron Nimzowitsch; the all-time popular Logical Chess: Move by Move – by Irving Chernev; and Bobby Fischer’s My Sixty Memorable Games (or other annotated game collections of a world champion).

My System is a book I just ordered online and received two days ago, so I haven’t really had time to really get into it, but it’s incredibly popular, and it says within the book that if you were to survey 100 Grandmasters, 99 of the 100 would say that they have read this book.

Irving Chernev is an immensly popular writer (or … WAS, rather, before he died) who is authoring the book Logical Chess: Move by Move. It’s highly recommended to many beginners and intermediate players.

Jeremy Silman has a plethora of books out there, all of them fantastic! The Amateur’s Mind, The Complete Book of Chess Strategy, ect.

World champion games collections will help you, as will puzzle books like Susan Polgar’s Chess Tactics for Champions (which I own), but they aren’t quite… all – around books. They instead focus on certain aspects of chess, instead of covering a broad range of things.

My System (by Aron Nimzowitsch) is great for covering quite literally everything. I have only owned it for two days, but it’s really really famous (which is WHY I bought it) and I’ve read many reviews.

So, really, Jeremy Silman has the best up-to-date books, and he’s a famous writer (not to mention, he’s an International Master). I personally think his Complete Book of Strategy is the best, but most say that his The Amateur’s Mind is. Idk, but the simplest thing to do is just to go to a bookstore and find the book that appeals to you the most.

Hope I helped,
John

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Question by David H: I am new to chess and want to know in what situation can a rook and the king move simultaneously?
I have been playing chess against the computer and I have noticed that at times the rook and the king on the computers side have moved simultaneously. I don’t know that much about the game and would like to know in what situations this is possibly. I always thought that it was one piece can move per turn. Any chessperts out there want to help me out with this? I never really paid attention to chess before, but the other day I tried it for the first time and now I am hooked. I do realize playing against the computer is nothing like playing against a real person, but maybe one day I will graduate to the level of being able to play against a real person. Anyway, just curious about this little question, because every time I see it happen I get a little irritated.

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Answer by Bandit
the move is called a “castle”. it is a very effective move to counter a one sided attack.

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Question by J Dog 24: Deep Blue vs Garry Kasparov Chess match?
I saw a short documentary on how deep blue a computer beet a person in a chess match and it appears that garry made a mistake that cost him game six of the final match, or so he says, do any of you know what his mistake was???

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Answer by Scuzzlebutt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_%E2%80%93_Kasparov,_1997,_Game_6

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Question by horezontel: A draw in chess?
I am playing chess against the computer. I have 2 queens a rook and 3 pawns. He only has a pawn that can’t move and can only move his king. I’m ready to mate in a few more moves and he declares that the game is a draw. What happened?

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Answer by jack j
the king cannot move anywhere this is called a stalemate

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