Any chess players

[Dannyalcatraz]

How does one determine whether they "play chess" ?

They…check.

 

[ichabod]

As another person who has made their own chess boards, here's a tip on making nice ones: buy vinyl from a fabric shop. You can get vinyl very similar to the vinyl used for tournament chess sets by the yard from fabric stores. Then get a nice long ruler and some permanent markers, and you have a very nice variant chess board you can roll up and take with you. I made 10x8 and hexagonal boards this way.

 

[aco175]

Not much of a player myself, but know the basics.

 

[jolt]

I used to play chess regularly, but eventually I admit I got bored with it. In FIDE chess, two decent (or better) players of equal ability play to a draw too often. I do like many of the variants, though. Shogi is my favorite. I've wanted to build a Jetan set for some time but I never seem to get around to it. The chessvariants.org webpage has a lot of good material on it.

 

[Yora]

I have not played chess in ages, but I do occasionally watch chess game analysis videos on youtube. Some of them are just hilarious, and I understand enough of the game to understand when something amazing is happening.

Like a player having only one available move for 11 moves in a row before being checkmated.
Or hypothetical nonsense like the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Queen attack.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

In FIDE chess, two decent (or better) players of equal ability play to a draw too often.

I had a little tell that others in the chess club never caught onto: if I was accelerating my pace of play, I was probably trying to force a stalemate after I screwed something up.

I forced a LOT of stalemates.

 

[Richards]

I made my variant chess boards on poster board (orange for the Jetan set - it's traditional), colored in the black squares with a Sharpie (for the hexagonal board I cut out black and gray hexagons and glued them into place accordingly), and then had the board laminated at a craft store for a small fee.

Johnathan

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I play and am not good

End

 

[FrogReaver]

Nice to see others here enjoy it. I’ve gotten back into it over the last month or so.

 

[dragoner]

I enjoy chess recreationally (i.e. I'm not part of any sort of league or organization for it nowadays), having been in the chess club back when I was in public school.

I am sort of like this, was in chess club, in fact we also used meetings to play board games, and RPG's back then, though I don't play chess much anymore as it became rather stressful, except I do play an occasional game still, such as at a cafe or something.