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Title: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 15, 2009, 08:59:16 AM
Shalom JTF!

I'm curious, you know the most famous chess players were Jews. The Hungarian chess champions were mostly Jews too. And I played chess for 7 years. I was 5. of the International Chess Championship of 2003, here is my diploma:
(http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/6342/p1170243.th.jpg) (http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=p1170243.jpg)

And I was student of the legendary famous Lajos Portisch who is a Hungarian-Jew.  :dance: :-[
Title: Re: Do like chess?
Post by: ag337 on March 15, 2009, 04:03:40 PM
ProudZ,

I like Chess, my grandfather taught me; but I am not very good.
I didn't have anyone to play or practice with, because he lived far away from me.

In my home with my parents, I played a lot of Backgammon with my Father.
I still play a lot of Backgammon.
Recently, I received a beautiful handcarved wooden Backgammon set from my friend when they returned from a trip to Israel.

I'm sure that there are sites online where I can start to practice and play Chess again.
I know there are sites for playing Backgammon, so there must be for Chess too.
I am going to check it out and give it a try.

Your diploma is quite impressive.
Chess is the thinking man's game, you must be a very good player.
Title: Re: Do like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 15, 2009, 04:04:53 PM
ProudZ,

I like Chess, my grandfather taught me; but I am not very good.
I didn't have anyone to play or practice with, because he lived far away from me.

In my home with my parents, I played a lot of Backgammon with my Father.
I still play a lot of Backgammon.
Recently, I received a beautiful handcarved wooden Backgammon set from my friend when they returned from a trip to Israel.

I'm sure that there are sites online where I can start to practice and play Chess again.
I know there are sites for playing Backgammon, so there must be for Chess too.
I am going to check it out and give it a try.

Your diploma is quite impressive.
Chess is the thinking man's game, you must be a very good player.

Thank you for your post. You are right, I hope you will have more time for play chess.  :dance:
Title: Re: Do like chess?
Post by: Dr. Yisrael on March 15, 2009, 04:15:03 PM
I love chess.

I often beat people who I thought were better then me?
Title: Re: Do like chess?
Post by: Spectator on March 15, 2009, 04:23:29 PM
Yes I do  :)
Title: Re: Do like chess?
Post by: Dagger on March 15, 2009, 04:27:51 PM
http://www.chess.com (http://www.chess.com)

Great place to play or practice... :)
Title: Re: Do like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 15, 2009, 04:40:04 PM
I love chess.

I often beat people who I thought were better then me?

Congratulations.  :dance:
Title: Re: Do like chess?
Post by: muman613 on March 15, 2009, 05:05:19 PM
When I was younger I was a good opponent. I have not really played a decent game in over 20 years. I try to play against the computer from time to time.

Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: zachor_ve_kavod on March 15, 2009, 06:32:59 PM
I am addicted to chess.  There are more possible positions on a chess board than there are atoms in the universe.  I study it.  I read games and theory and I play every chance I get.  Good opponents are hard to find.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Rubystars on March 15, 2009, 06:37:30 PM
I like the game but I haven't had time to play it or practice it.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 22, 2009, 10:56:18 AM
Wants somebody play with me chess? :dance: Im bored.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: muman613 on March 22, 2009, 11:25:48 AM
I like cheese, especially on pizza... But as always I will wait about six hours before eating meat after I eat some cheese. I usually have a Large green pepper & onion pizza about once a week.

Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 22, 2009, 11:26:40 AM
I like cheese, especially on pizza... But as always I will wait about six hours before eating meat after I eat some cheese. I usually have a Large green pepper & onion pizza about once a week.



 :o
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Ben Yehuda on March 22, 2009, 12:09:56 PM
Great game but can consume to much time which can be spent on more meaningful endeavors.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: syyuge on March 22, 2009, 04:32:34 PM
Great game but can consume to much time which can be spent on more meaningful endeavors.

It is very interesting game, but was invented for the ancient Indian Kings who had lot of free time on this earth to learn the war tactics on the boards. It was much before the time of Muslamic invasion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_chess

Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 22, 2009, 04:35:25 PM
www.sakk.hu

We can play here, not must Hungarian knowledge (I can translate that few words what needs).  :dance: Who wants play with me?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: sonja_yu on March 22, 2009, 09:48:47 PM
YESSS, but I'm not very good at it... hehe, I'll ask my grandpa for help, he's a mastermind!
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: The One and Only Mo on March 22, 2009, 11:24:08 PM
My therapsit taught me Chess when I was 5 years old. Seriously. Great game
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 23, 2009, 01:07:46 AM
YESSS, but I'm not very good at it... hehe, I'll ask my grandpa for help, he's a mastermind!

Cool. Slavs are very good chess players too, especially Russians. I can play with your grandfather too.  ;D
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Xoce on March 23, 2009, 01:16:35 AM
I played chess with my father when I was little until I beat him.  He hasn't played me since  :::D :::D :::D

But before I laugh too hard, I was beaten by a child prodigy, and haven't really played since, either  :laugh:

I play Free Cell and Tetris now,  :::D :'( ???
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: sonja_yu on March 25, 2009, 05:31:56 PM
YESSS, but I'm not very good at it... hehe, I'll ask my grandpa for help, he's a mastermind!

Cool. Slavs are very good chess players too, especially Russians. I can play with your grandfather too.  ;D

Oh, yes, we really have good brains for it, don't you think?
Yeah. Could you win? LOL, I need much more practice..... :S
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 25, 2009, 05:38:44 PM
YESSS, but I'm not very good at it... hehe, I'll ask my grandpa for help, he's a mastermind!

Cool. Slavs are very good chess players too, especially Russians. I can play with your grandfather too.  ;D

Oh, yes, we really have good brains for it, don't you think?
Yeah. Could you win? LOL, I need much more practice..... :S

Indians, Jews, Slavs are the greatest chess players. Especially the Hungarian-Jews.  :dance:
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: sonja_yu on March 25, 2009, 05:51:23 PM
YESSS, but I'm not very good at it... hehe, I'll ask my grandpa for help, he's a mastermind!

Cool. Slavs are very good chess players too, especially Russians. I can play with your grandfather too.  ;D

Oh, yes, we really have good brains for it, don't you think?
Yeah. Could you win? LOL, I need much more practice..... :S

Indians, Jews, Slavs are the greatest chess players. Especially the Hungarian-Jews.  :dance:

Such as yourself?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 25, 2009, 06:06:58 PM
YESSS, but I'm not very good at it... hehe, I'll ask my grandpa for help, he's a mastermind!

Cool. Slavs are very good chess players too, especially Russians. I can play with your grandfather too.  ;D

Oh, yes, we really have good brains for it, don't you think?
Yeah. Could you win? LOL, I need much more practice..... :S

Indians, Jews, Slavs are the greatest chess players. Especially the Hungarian-Jews.  :dance:

Such as yourself?

Hehe...I am not the best, lol. I meant Judit Polgár(Jewish), Sándor Orgován, Portisch Lajos(Jewish), Lajos Abel(Jewish), Eszter Dudás (Jewish), Zsófia Polgár(Jewish, live in Israel), Péter Lékó (Hungarian from Vojvodina)  :) :dance:
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: zachor_ve_kavod on March 25, 2009, 10:47:33 PM
YESSS, but I'm not very good at it... hehe, I'll ask my grandpa for help, he's a mastermind!

Cool. Slavs are very good chess players too, especially Russians. I can play with your grandfather too.  ;D

Oh, yes, we really have good brains for it, don't you think?
Yeah. Could you win? LOL, I need much more practice..... :S

Indians, Jews, Slavs are the greatest chess players. Especially the Hungarian-Jews.  :dance:

Such as yourself?

Hehe...I am not the best, lol. I meant Judit Polgár(Jewish), Sándor Orgován, Portisch Lajos(Jewish), Lajos Abel(Jewish), Eszter Dudás (Jewish), Zsófia Polgár(Jewish, live in Israel), Péter Lékó (Hungarian from Vojvodina)  :) :dance:

Zsofia Polgar is an amateur when compared to her sister Judit.  But don't forget the eastern Eurpoean Jewish chess players.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 26, 2009, 01:11:26 AM
Judit Polgár (born July 23, 1976) is a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She is by far the strongest female chessplayer in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polgar

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/Polgar.jpg)

 8) :dance: :P
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: New Yorker on March 26, 2009, 01:18:18 AM

I don't know if I like Chess or not, I've never played it. I'm lousy at strategy games though, so I imagine I'd suck at it.  ;D
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: IsraelForever on March 26, 2009, 01:21:54 AM
The 2 greatest chess players of all time, Bobby Fischer (who went insane and became a virulent anti-semite no less!) and Garry Kasparov:  both Jews.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ✡ Hindu Zionist ॐ on March 26, 2009, 01:26:09 AM
YESSS, but I'm not very good at it... hehe, I'll ask my grandpa for help, he's a mastermind!

Cool. Slavs are very good chess players too, especially Russians. I can play with your grandfather too.  ;D

Oh, yes, we really have good brains for it, don't you think?
Yeah. Could you win? LOL, I need much more practice..... :S

Indians, Jews, Slavs are the greatest chess players. Especially the Hungarian-Jews.  :dance:
ohh yes!!

I too got certificate in Inter-school competition.

But now I have lost my game since i started to play with my niece in Time limit form lol
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 26, 2009, 09:46:59 AM
The 2 greatest chess players of all time, Bobby Fischer (who went insane and became a virulent anti-semite no less!) and Garry Kasparov:  both Jews.

I know it very well...and I know Fischer's really face... >:(
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: sonja_yu on March 26, 2009, 06:17:47 PM
YESSS, but I'm not very good at it... hehe, I'll ask my grandpa for help, he's a mastermind!

Cool. Slavs are very good chess players too, especially Russians. I can play with your grandfather too.  ;D

Oh, yes, we really have good brains for it, don't you think?
Yeah. Could you win? LOL, I need much more practice..... :S

Indians, Jews, Slavs are the greatest chess players. Especially the Hungarian-Jews.  :dance:

Such as yourself?

Hehe...I am not the best, lol. I meant Judit Polg�r(Jewish), S�ndor Orgov�n, Portisch Lajos(Jewish), Lajos Abel(Jewish), Eszter Dud�s (Jewish), Zs�fia Polg�r(Jewish, live in Israel), P�ter L�k� (Hungarian from Vojvodina)  :) :dance:

Hungarian from Vojvodina? Not Jewish?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: sonja_yu on March 26, 2009, 06:20:03 PM
By the way, by looking at those names, it just reminds me that JTF needs some add-ons, so we'll be able to see some letters (this has nothing to do with chess, but it does with players' names, lol).
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on March 27, 2009, 04:55:11 AM
By the way, by looking at those names, it just reminds me that JTF needs some add-ons, so we'll be able to see some letters (this has nothing to do with chess, but it does with players' names, lol).

Most of them are Jewish, but Lékó is not.  :)
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: sonja_yu on March 27, 2009, 05:58:22 PM
By the way, by looking at those names, it just reminds me that JTF needs some add-ons, so we'll be able to see some letters (this has nothing to do with chess, but it does with players' names, lol).

Most of them are Jewish, but L�k� is not.  :)

LOL, I can see only Lk (L�k�).
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 04:20:38 PM
I want to play Chess. Any volunteer?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 04:37:09 PM
I want to play Chess. Any volunteer?


Is there a place to play chess online?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 04:41:19 PM
I want to play Chess. Any volunteer?


Is there a place to play chess online?

Yes.  :P I was just playing with the ex-JTFer Sarah.

Moshe92 do you want to play?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 04:43:44 PM
I want to play Chess. Any volunteer?


Is there a place to play chess online?

Yes.  :P I was just playing with the ex-JTFer Sarah.

Moshe92 do you want to play?

yes
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 04:46:29 PM
I want to play Chess. Any volunteer?


Is there a place to play chess online?

Yes.  :P I was just playing with the ex-JTFer Sarah.

Moshe92 do you want to play?

yes

The easiest way to play chess:

http://www.sakk.hu/
(It's in Hungarian, but I will translate, that how can you log in)

1. Open the link.
2. Do you see "Rapid - 20 perces" ?
3. Click to the "12. Szoba - Belépés" 12. Room - Enter
4. Under the "Regisztráció" choose "Belépés vendégként" join as guest.
5. My name is very "political" there so you will be able to know that who I am.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 04:50:55 PM
I want to play Chess. Any volunteer?


Is there a place to play chess online?

Yes.  :P I was just playing with the ex-JTFer Sarah.

Moshe92 do you want to play?

yes

The easiest way to play chess:

http://www.sakk.hu/
(It's in Hungarian, but I will translate, that how can you log in)

1. Open the link.
2. Do you see "Rapid - 20 perces" ?
3. Click to the "12. Szoba - Belépés" 12. Room - Enter
4. Under the "Regisztráció" choose "Belépés vendégként" join as guest.
5. My name is very "political" there so you will be able to know that who I am.

I'm there. How do we start playing?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 04:53:18 PM
I'm playing against you. How do I write something to you?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 04:54:24 PM
Do you see the "Mehet" It means send. Type there the text.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 04:58:54 PM
When I press it, nothing happens.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 05:07:25 PM
When I press it, nothing happens.

Try to choose the enter. Revenge? 1:0 for me. :-[ You were not easy  honestly.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 05:18:22 PM
I'm sorry, but I need to go now. We can play another time.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 05:19:07 PM
I'm sorry, but I need to go now. We can play another time.

Ok brother.  :P
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Manch on August 03, 2009, 05:48:23 PM
yes!
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 07:33:41 PM
yes!

I'm online now. Do you want to play?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 07:43:38 PM
Are you online PAZ? Do you want to play another game?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 07:58:08 PM
Are you online PAZ? Do you want to play another game?

I'm a bit busy now, but we can play soon, I will write here.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 08:24:56 PM
I'm online. Moshe?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 08:34:22 PM
me
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: takebackourtemple on August 03, 2009, 08:48:42 PM
   I took a class once where we had to write a program to play chess and checkers. While checkers had a much simpler scoring system, the move generation was more complicated to program because of forced moves. Still, the checker program was able to look a little further ahead in the game tree than the chess program(we only had two minutes to calculate each move). Neither one was simple to write. I see that the solution to checkers was solved in 2007. The solution is a draw if both players play flawlessly. Maybe one day our machines will have enough memory and processing power to solve chess.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Aces High on August 03, 2009, 08:56:12 PM
My brother was better than me at chess, but I could beat him sometimes because I would take forever between moves.  He would go back to watching tv when it was my turn to move.   He inevitably would rush his moves to get the game moving along and make mistakes.  That's my trick!
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 09:11:37 PM
me

It was not so easy... ::)

(I played chess for 8 years BTW)
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 09:13:43 PM
My brother was better than me at chess, but I could beat him sometimes because I would take forever between moves.  He would go back to watching tv when it was my turn to move.   He inevitably would rush his moves to get the game moving along and make mistakes.  That's my trick!

I often use the Italian Opening. But the Russian Hussar Game is also very good.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 09:14:36 PM
One of the most popular:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Game

Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 09:15:15 PM
Good game, PAZ. I don't know any chess strategy. I just play.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 09:34:33 PM
Good game, PAZ. I don't know any chess strategy. I just play.

Well you don't seem beginner. You were good and you could be a perfect player if you would practice more. This last game was a bit disappointed for me. You would have to won. (I did that button mistake). Anyway congrats!

Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Moshe92 on August 03, 2009, 09:36:50 PM
Good game, PAZ. I don't know any chess strategy. I just play.

Well you don't seem beginner. You were good and you could be a perfect player if you would practice more. This last game was a bit disappointed for me. You would have to won. (I did that button mistake). Anyway congrats!



Well I made a mistake by trading queens at the end. Before that trade, I thought I had the game.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 03, 2009, 09:39:38 PM
Good game, PAZ. I don't know any chess strategy. I just play.

Well you don't seem beginner. You were good and you could be a perfect player if you would practice more. This last game was a bit disappointed for me. You would have to won. (I did that button mistake). Anyway congrats!



Well I made a mistake by trading queens at the end. Before that trade, I thought I had the game.

Check out some strategies. I played 4 games today. 3(or 4?) with you and 1 with Sarah. :-[ I won.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 04, 2009, 06:15:13 PM
I have a time for a party, so a chess? ;) Who does want?
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks on August 04, 2009, 06:48:20 PM
Unfortunately, some of the champion chess-playing Jews have been monstrously self-hating, such as the late Bobby Fischer (ys"vz).
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks on August 04, 2009, 06:50:24 PM
PS to the best of my knowledge, Kasparov is only half-Jewish (Jewish father). I don't think he is a halachic Jew.
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: muman613 on August 04, 2009, 06:57:49 PM
PS to the best of my knowledge, Kasparov is only half-Jewish (Jewish father). I don't think he is a halachic Jew.

You know which chess player really gets me upset?

His name was Bobby Fisher... I have heard that I may be distantly related to this putz. I used to have a autographed copy of one of his chess books... Thank Hashem I lost it and I hope this anti-semite is having a field day in hell right now...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fisher
Quote
Anti-Jewish statements

Fischer, whose mother was Jewish,[112][213] made occasional hostile comments toward Jews from at least the early 1960s.[112][214] In 1961, he "made his first public statements despising Jews."[215] Jan Hein Donner wrote that at the time of Bled 1961, "He idolized Hitler and read everything about him that he could lay his hands on. He also championed a brand of antisemitism that could only be thought up by a mind completely cut off from reality."[89] Donner writes that he took Fischer to a war museum, which "left a great impression, since he is not an evil person, and afterwards he was more restrained in his remarks—to me, at least".[89]
Title: Re: Do you like chess?
Post by: ProudAndZionist on August 04, 2009, 06:58:56 PM
PS to the best of my knowledge, Kasparov is only half-Jewish (Jewish father). I don't think he is a halachic Jew.

You know which chess player really gets me upset?

His name was Bobby Fisher... I have heard that I may be distantly related to this putz. I used to have a autographed copy of one of his chess books... Thank Hashem I lost it and I hope this anti-semite is having a field day in hell right now...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fisher

Same here about Bobby Fisher...