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<blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 5750105" data-attributes="member: 31216">From our 40-year history of [good-natured] sibling rivalry and competitiveness, and our basic personalities, I'm confident that he's not letting me win. Distracted? Possibly, but not likely -- at least not for this long. That's one of the great things about CwF: you make your move when you have the time to put attention to it. If you haven't played it: it's like texting. Make a move, and the game alerts the other player it is their turn. When they get a chance, they make their move, and it alerts you. Moves can be minutes apart or hours or even days apart. Take as long as you want to get to it and/or think about a move.We also play Words with Friends, but I've won only about 4 to 1 in that. Luck plays a bigger part in WwF than in chess, and I have notoriously bad luck in games with elements of randomness. This game can be very frustrating at times, (which I hear Alec Baldwin can attest to). And although I have a generally better vocabulary than my brother -- I'm a writer, he's a drummer -- most of our words tend to be in the 3-5 letter range, so knowing big words doesn't seem to help.One thing that I wonder about is whether my much wider experience with games in general could be my edge in our chess games. I wonder if my experience with gaming makes me approach our chess games differently than he does.Bullgrit</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bullgrit, post: 5750105, member: 31216"] From our 40-year history of [good-natured] sibling rivalry and competitiveness, and our basic personalities, I'm confident that he's not letting me win. Distracted? Possibly, but not likely -- at least not for this long. That's one of the great things about CwF: you make your move when you have the time to put attention to it. If you haven't played it: it's like texting. Make a move, and the game alerts the other player it is their turn. When they get a chance, they make their move, and it alerts you. Moves can be minutes apart or hours or even days apart. Take as long as you want to get to it and/or think about a move. We also play [i]Words with Friends[/i], but I've won only about 4 to 1 in that. Luck plays a bigger part in WwF than in chess, and I have notoriously bad luck in games with elements of randomness. This game can be very frustrating at times, (which I hear Alec Baldwin can attest to). And although I have a generally better vocabulary than my brother -- I'm a writer, he's a drummer -- most of our words tend to be in the 3-5 letter range, so knowing big words doesn't seem to help. One thing that I wonder about is whether my much wider experience with games in general could be my edge in our chess games. I wonder if my experience with gaming makes me approach our chess games differently than he does. Bullgrit [/QUOTE]

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