Anybody else see that?

I saw it, but then I went and looked at the game and it is actually a draw. Each individual has 1 pass pawn, but can't stop the other's king taking it within the next two moves. The only officer remaining on the board is a bishop, and a bishop and a king can't checkmate, its impossible. So Snake_6024 right its a draw, the only thing he's wrong about is the getting checkmated himself part.... unless one of them wants to do something stupid like let the other one Queen.

BTW- why can't i capture en passant on RHP?

En passant works on RHP, i've seen people doing it.

how would i go about doing it, then?
i had a game where i could have done it, but when i tried to do it, it didn't work.

Here you go

En Passant

Wow i didn't even know about that. Cool.

Draw.



I was thinking of all the ways around it. i actually sacrificed my knight so he would move his king down one so i could move my pawn up and get a queen. But then he moved his bishop and i saw, if i moved the pawn up, he'd take it with a bishop, and then i'd take his, and then we'd just have his bishop and two kings, useless.
So, draw it is.

If your on or such... feel free to send me a PM to get me to move. This one move a day is killing me slowly.

And, yeah... I've seen En Passant Capture on RHP... Talon did it to me.

I'm sorry everyone but its been hecktic lately so no time for chess. Maybe next year.

I love chesss. that is all.

If anyone wants to finish their game with me, I will be on for the next 6 hours refreshing redhotpawn every ten minutes.

*twiddles thumbs*

Stupid me going through my matches like steve irwin going through emergency.

I have only a couple of matches left to finish... hold me...

Erm... can I just give you a sympathetic pat on the back instead

No! lol

Thistle keeps putting our match off... I think shes afraid of loosing to me a second time... She would never hear the end of it lol

Well she almost had me beaten in our second game, so she a strong opponent who just needs to beleive in herself

She believd in herself in the first game... I took her by surprise....

Also, is the use of chloroform agaisnt tourament rules? lol

Not at all! Tell Thistle to use it with our blessings!

By the way, I love your avatar! Is it a photograph? It's just exactly how I always imagined you looked!

Remind me to do you no favours Elfy

Heh, aren't you lucky? I still have quite a few games left. One game has been going on for almost a month now.

O, yeah... I'll put my money down on Thistle. She's going to cream you, Subby.

Is this gang up on subby day?

She will not cream me! ....Im sure it will be more of a puree

Oh god , please someone move!

I think we should just declare Talon the winner already. Played 80 games, never lost once!

You should really play in tournaments.

I'm think I'm going to go down in history as the worst player ever.

Don't say that, its all about experience. I've been playing chess for 10 years now, and spent 6 of that in a Seconardy/High School chess club so I have a lot of tricks of the trade. But at one time I sucked, seriously, I couldn't win a game. But I just played every day week at that chess club until I gained enough experience to end up Champion of the Club for the last two years I was there and the only person who could beat me was this guy Adam Brown who was so good with his knights he could take on a queen with them.

But anyway, the point is, that chess is one of those games were you gain in ability as you play. Every game, even those you lose, or even are absolutely destoryed in, gives you a little more experience and little more insight. I've seen people from the first tournment proving a far harder challenge this time around. Elfstone has gone from beginner to beating last years number 3. Burnside I was sure once had me beaten in a friendly match. I've defeated Thistle many times before, yet by all rights she should have won our last game, she was that close to checkmate. And so forth.

What's important is experience here. And as long as you've learned something from a game you've lost, then that experience can be taken into the next game and the next after that.

Chess is a sport, just of the mind rather than body. But nobody became a world class footballer in only a few training sessions.


Try. Learn. Never give up.

Yeah, but chess doesn't get your the chicks

.... no.... no it doesn't

Good Advice Tal....but most importantly ...

HAVE FUN ! At the end of the day chess is a game and a great way to meet other members of UM that you might not get to know through the forums.

Why is it the people who leave the tournament always have losses to me.... Why cant those who beat me leave.... lol

Talon's right, you do get better the more you play. I went back and had a look at one of my first games in the original tournament..... and I almiost cried I was that awful.... I was obviously out of practise wuite a bit lol. But i got better in that tournament, as it went along.... and I have played better this time around.

Hopefully ill finish around the top 5, then I can feel good about my improvement, considering the field in this tournament is pretty good

The thing is...I think it's very easy indeed for the people at the top of the league to say that, and a damn sight more difficult for people at the bottom to accept it Part of the reason I stopped playing in the first tournament was because (aside from the fact I got fedup waiting for some games - I'd much rather just sit down and play a game through), it quickly became apparant that not only was Talon going to win the thing (as he is likely to win every single one of these tournaments we host), but that I wasn't even likely to secure a place high up on the score boards.

As much as we say "it's all in the name of fun", it's still a competition, and I think people still do want to win...nobody is going to be having fun if all their doing is losing time and time again. Telling them they'll get better with experience probably isn't much comfort with the same three names in the top spots every single tournament.

Bleeding heck Tal I just saw your results and you haven't lost a single game!? Are you secretly heading to being grand or international master?

Suicidal Subster

Knights move F6 to H5 remember!! --- Knights on the rim are dim!

Edit- Checkmate! Nice game sweets. Try not to play your Knights on the edge of the board as you are limiting the knights function as they should control 8 squares.

On second thought... maybe you shouldn't play in the tourney.



Whoa, sweet.. RHP is letting me play SEVEN games! Guess, I'll get to play you, Lottie. Good luck and have fun.

Lottie is a meanie

Subby play better this time....

Thanks for the inspirational post, Talon. I'll come back next year and I'll beat you all! *Shakes fist*

(By next year I mean in 20 years.)

I used to be really good. During school last year, I played intramural chess and was undefeated. But now I'm just plain terrible.

It did that for me too, so long as you don't let your number of games drop back down to 6 you should be able to keep going, I think I had 8 on the go at one point without subscribing.

Trouble is it's hard to keep track of that many games, so that's my excuse for losing a couple

Guys I think I am going to have to resign from the tournament... my comp is out of action and im sharing my dads... I cant move enough.

Come one someone sign on to play...I wanna play a few games before I go....

Oh and Richdog, don't resign...my comp is out too (hell I can't even get it to re-install XP a.t.m.) and am using my sister's. I'm sure we can all wait...

I may have to opt out as well due to injuries involving a horse. I will try to hang in there though. If I am at all able to sit tomorrow I will still play...as it is..I don't even know if I will be able to get out of bed. But don't count me out yet.

I have a few spaces free for anyone looking to play who i haven't challenged yet.

Just thought i'd mention this here for those who were either too late to join in the tournament or who have been removed/opted out due to time constraints; we may be implementing a new chess system on the site once the tournament is nearing it's finishing stages.

The new system which was suggested by Subby, involves us having a continuous 'league', where players can opt to take part at any time. It will no longer be necessary for newer players to play any games against more experienced players, which should be more appealing to beginners who can instead opt to play only against other chess beginners.

The league would consist of a ranking system, with the most experienced player at the top and gradually moving down to the newer players at the bottom. To move up the rank, a player would need to challenge and beat a player who is of a higher rank - if they succeed then they move up to that position and the other players below that point move down one position. In this way players can slowly try to move up the ranks.

The idea is still in it's early stages, so i don't have all the details yet. The main aim of it is to encourage more people to take part, and to prevent our less experienced players from having to play against people they don't want to. It also eliminates waiting for players to finish, or the need to remove players who take a long time to move.

what a great idea, Saru!

I'm more then a novice myself, having never played chess and I would love to learn: this would be an opportunity for people such as myself to be able to join and learn, thus, enabling me, per say, to kick some UM keester after a length of time lol

The main aim of it is to encourage more people to take part, and to prevent our less experienced players from having to play against people they don't want to.


Hehehehe, who wouldn't want to play against Talon? *all hands go up*............Whoa guys, it was just a rethorical question. j/k

Playing against a stronger player is the only way we learn, it's Talon I feel sorry for how's he going to get any better playing us lot!?

I would think its good for Talon, as a lot of us aren't very good at technique we have an air of unpredictability to us, rather then someone who have a certain technique they always play with....

Then of course, he does beat us all.... that can't feel all that bad...

Heeeeeeeeeeeelp!

I'm being tag teamed by Kratos, Thistle and Talon....this is not looking good

Well if it helps, I'm pretty sure you're making the best possible moves against me, or at least certainly the moves I don't want you to make

We're even right now by the looks of it. My poor knight... I hope you didn't torture him too long before ending his miserable life.

I've got Thistle going against me as well... slippery queen she has.

Thistle is about as slippery as they get...watch out..she is a Master of the Pawn

The master of the pawn has become master of the pillow, so you can have relax about that game for now....

I shall go play my... oh...I dont have any left....

*slakes fist at heavens* DAMNNNNN YOOUUUUU