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Posted by TurquoiseTastic (# 8978) on :

I have recently discovered online chess and wondered whether any shipmates frequent such haunts. I am an enthusiastic but not very good player (would estimate myself somewhere between 1000 and 1200 ELO, generally worse the faster the game is played). Any masters or grandmasters out there?

Posted by Hart (# 4991) on :

I play on Game Knot as a_booth_1 . I'm about the same standard as you (about 1000 ELO, but have been slowly climbing for a while now). Always up for a game with some shipmates!

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

I played chess in grammar school: don't now. No time. Favourite play: Queen's Gambit!

Posted by TurquoiseTastic (# 8978) on :

I have been playing as TurquoiseTastic on chess.com. Blitz at 5 minutes per person is pretty brutal! I find it astonishing how many people like to play 2-minute or even 1-minute games. I really need at least 15 minutes to feel that I'm thinking rather than reacting. And even a 30-minute-each game is fairly rapid to my way of thinking.

On the plus side, blitz means you can have a game in a 15 minute scrap of time... and there's always someone willing to play...

Posted by South Coast Kevin (# 16130) on :

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Originally posted by TurquoiseTastic:
I have recently discovered online chess and wondered whether any shipmates frequent such haunts. I am an enthusiastic but not very good player (would estimate myself somewhere between 1000 and 1200 ELO, generally worse the faster the game is played). Any masters or grandmasters out there?

I play chess online at playchess.com every now and then, and am a regular at my local chess club. Nowhere near being any level of Master though! Chess is awesome.

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