Talk:Chess

My gosh, there is no context given for the second half of the article, not describing what the pieces are. --Hojimachong^talk 12:41, 1 April 2007 (EDT)

What's the source on the pieces being added? Curious to read more.-AmesG_yo! 15:26, 13 April 2007 (EDT)

I'll get on it. By the way, is anybody interested in playing email chess? MountainDew 17:13, 14 April 2007 (EDT)

RedHotPawn, same username.-AmesG_yo! 17:14, 14 April 2007 (EDT)

I'll do the email chess MD;
ON Topic: we're going to need diagrams for to spell out moves and strategies, as chess is such a visual game. I don't have a clue where to get them though. Also a section on chess notation would be handy. Cracker_talk 16:14, 15 April 2007 (EDT)

I'm kansaspatzer if anyone is on Gameknot.

A section on chess notation would be excellent! MountainDew 16:18, 15 April 2007 (EDT)

Image

I like the shot of the individual pieces; can it be flipped, R-L? that way the text will correspond more naturally with the photo; conversely we can rev the text. Your call. Cracker_talk 16:20, 15 April 2007 (EDT)

several small edits

Since this article looks like the hard work of probably one editor, I wanted to call attention to the fact that I just made several small edits in a row. You might want to look at each one to make sure I didn't mess up your article. By the way, is the "descriptive" method of noatation coming soon? Human 16:04, 12 May 2007 (EDT)

Break article up into smaller articles?

This article is rather long, perhaps should we break some of it off into separate articles, such as one on chess notation? DanH 21:13, 30 October 2007 (EDT)

elitist game?

"The game used to be treated as a status symbol of education and aristocracy but in recent times has become to be known as an elitist's game."

This is highly questionable and frankly sounds absurd to me, esp. without any citation to back it up. If anything, the rise of the internet has broadened the appeal of chess and made it less of an elitist game in recent times. RightOfCenter 11:22, 9 May 2008 (EDT)

omissions

There's no mention of postal chess (email chess), live chess, blindfold, or simultaneous chess, nor of the classic variations like "fairy chess", etc. Canuck 23:36, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

Canuck, this is a wiki. That means editors can and do improve entries rather than whine about them.--Aschlafly 23:50, 30 July 2008 (EDT)

the 2000 castle aka 0000 aka the lubek castle + beauty sample game

many are looking into it:

encyclopediasupreme.org/0000 /LongLongCastle.txt

mywikibiz.com/0000

[Event "WCA-EURO CHAMPIONSHIP RE-MATCH SUPER 0-0-0-0 BONUS ROUNDS"]
[Site "ARTISTIC 0-0-0-0 GAME/geocities.ws/cmby2k"]
[Date "2001.8.03-2002.7.10"]
[Round "1a-Official-Lubek's 0-0-0-0 Viewer Required!"]
[White "GM Jan Lubek"]
[Black "GM Radovan Matic"]
[Result "1-0"]
[FEN "1r1kr3/2pp1p2/1pn3p1/4Pp1p/p1PP4/P3R3/1P2BPPP/2KR4 w - - 0 1"]

1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 b6 3.d4 Bb7 4.e4 Bb4 5.e5 Ne7 6.Qg4 Nf5 7.Bg5 h5 8.Qf5 ef5 9.Bd8 Kd8 10.0-0-0-0 Bc3 11.Rc3 Re8 12.Nf3 Be4 13.Kc1 Nc6 14.Be2 g6 15.a3 a5 16.Rd1 Bf3 17.Rf3 Rb8 18.Re3 a4 19.Kc2{10.0-0-0-0 Bc3 11.Rc3 Re8 12.Nf3 Be4 13.Kc1 Nc6 14.Be2 g6 15.a3 a5 16.Rd1 Bf3 17.Rf3 Rb8 18.Re3 a4 played before} Na5 20.f4 c5 21.d5 Ke7 22.d6+ Kf8 23.Kc3 Nc6 24.Bf3 Nd4 25.Rxd4 cxd4+ 26.Kd4 Rec8 27.b4 ab3 28.Rb3 Kg7 29.h4 Kf8 30.Rb5 f6 31.a4 fe5 32.fe5 Ke8 33.Bd5 Rd8 34.c5 bc5 35.Kc4 {White's Excellent Move, if the King takes the pawn, rook gets into white's territory, picks up pawns and has good winning chances!} f4 36.a5 Rxb5 37.Kxb5 ! {If... c4 38.Kxc4 Rc8 39.Kb5!!!} 1-0

australia is into this castle!!!