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Chess World Championship
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Crab.C.Nesbitt
Gheorge Popescu
glad you got that off your chess?
Rock Strongo
dodgy Dave Goosegog
It's resting day today, so you can catch up with watching this mountain, which may or may not crumble: http://www.vgtv.no/#!/live/102498/direkte-fjellet-kan-rase-naar-som-helst
Lemonade Money
Steffen Freund
On the subject of bored games, anyone here play backgammon?
Such a rook-ie comeback!
a spur from swansea
Naybet
ringo
Tim Sherwood
Just as I thought then.
Slightly concerned at Jordihno's comments. Surely not serious..heavyweight boxing and cross country skiing are two of the most exciting spectator sports.
For heavyweight boxing there is Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas -an epic contest.
For cross-country skiing there is Therese Johaug..... (and the tour de ski - but mostly Therese Johaug) Oh and did I mention Therese Johaug?
As for televised world championship chess on a TV -not unless you live in India or Norway -or run your internet through the TV, but check it out here:
http://live.fide.com/sochi/index.php
and at the same time here
http://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2014-wcc
Chess is a battle to the death, where you crush your opponent with your superior intellect (or in my case swear a lot having blundered away an important piece, then spend the rest of the game running away as much as is possible on a 64 square chess board, and hiding behind the pawns. If there are any left.) It is never boring or dull, or drawn out for a very very very long time.
Exciting chess facts:
World champ Magnus Carlsen can play and beat 10 people simultaneously playing all ten game in his head without seeing the board (it saves money) -to be honest he could probably do a lot more. (the record is over 30 - I can barely play one while staring at the board for lengthy periods)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTeDkyQUbyY
or 20 people at once while looking at the board (fewer headaches -seriously, blindfold chess was banned in Russia for a while. Probably unpatriotic.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VimQdycaZ5U
And don't forget the famous coded yoghurt pot incident in a word title match where they had to put a board below the table to stop the players kicking each other.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...oMJGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jvMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1169,368390
Frankly, chess is almost more exciting than watching Spurs play at the moment.
So to anyone who still believes chess is boring I say fork off.......chess saying.
Slightly concerned at Jordihno's comments. Surely not serious..heavyweight boxing and cross country skiing are two of the most exciting spectator sports.
For heavyweight boxing there is Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas -an epic contest.
For cross-country skiing there is Therese Johaug..... (and the tour de ski - but mostly Therese Johaug) Oh and did I mention Therese Johaug?
As for televised world championship chess on a TV -not unless you live in India or Norway -or run your internet through the TV, but check it out here:
http://live.fide.com/sochi/index.php
and at the same time here
http://www.chessbomb.com/arena/2014-wcc
Chess is a battle to the death, where you crush your opponent with your superior intellect (or in my case swear a lot having blundered away an important piece, then spend the rest of the game running away as much as is possible on a 64 square chess board, and hiding behind the pawns. If there are any left.) It is never boring or dull, or drawn out for a very very very long time.
Exciting chess facts:
World champ Magnus Carlsen can play and beat 10 people simultaneously playing all ten game in his head without seeing the board (it saves money) -to be honest he could probably do a lot more. (the record is over 30 - I can barely play one while staring at the board for lengthy periods)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTeDkyQUbyY
or 20 people at once while looking at the board (fewer headaches -seriously, blindfold chess was banned in Russia for a while. Probably unpatriotic.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VimQdycaZ5U
And don't forget the famous coded yoghurt pot incident in a word title match where they had to put a board below the table to stop the players kicking each other.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...oMJGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jvMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1169,368390
Frankly, chess is almost more exciting than watching Spurs play at the moment.
So to anyone who still believes chess is boring I say fork off.......chess saying.
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I find boxing in the lower weight class can be entertaining, but the heavyweights? Nah. They can't even make through one round before they're out of breath.
As for cross country skiing, I've seen enough hours of it to know that it is mind numbingly boring and Therese Johaug really isn't all that. She already looks about ten years older than she is. A few more seasons in the biting cold isn't going to help with that.
Chess can interesting to study, but as a tv sport or any kind of spectacle? I've had more enjoyable times staring at a wall.
ringo
Tim Sherwood
Any particular wall? I'm looking for another pastime to fit in with the heavy weight boxing/cross-country skiing/chess/fishing...
Without trying to offend anyone, I think it helps having a touch of autism. To be good at chess you need to memorize 10s of thousands of different scenarios and moves.
Rock Strongo
dodgy Dave Goosegog
Just think of it like masturbating without watching ****.
ringo
Tim Sherwood
They read the moves out in chess notation. So you have to hold ten games, with the moves as they progress, in your head.
(Or in the case of the world record 30+). Don't ask me how, though, as I struggle to remember where I left my house.
ringo
Tim Sherwood
Mindist.
