First player(s) on this site

Patrick97

General

31 May 07 22:55

Patrick97

Mr

Munster

Joined: 11 Jun 05
Moves: 19808

31 May 07 22:55

can anyone claim to be the first player or one of the very first players to start playing chess on this site?

orangutan

ook

hirsute rooster

Joined: 13 Apr 05
Moves: 22128

31 May 07 22:57

Originally posted by Patrick97
can anyone claim to be the first player or one of the very first players to start playing chess on this site?

russ

huckleberryhound

Devout Agnostic.

DZ-015

Joined: 12 Oct 05
Moves: 42584

31 May 07 22:57

I can claim it dead easy.

I claim to be the first player on the site.

There 🙂

Patrick97

Mr

Munster

Joined: 11 Jun 05
Moves: 19808

31 May 07 22:59

Russ joined on 21 February 2001
can anyone best this?

Bosse de Nage

Zellulärer Automat

Spiel des Lebens

Joined: 27 Jan 05
Moves: 90892

31 May 07 23:00

Originally posted by Patrick97
can anyone claim to be the first player or one of the very first players to start playing chess on this site?

Certainly, much as anyone can claim to be Zorro.

huckleberryhound

Devout Agnostic.

DZ-015

Joined: 12 Oct 05
Moves: 42584

31 May 07 23:01

I'm brian, and so is my wife

EAPOE

Earl of Rochester

Restoration London

Joined: 22 Dec 05
Moves: 7135

31 May 07 23:20

Originally posted by Patrick97
can anyone claim to be the first player or one of the very first players to start playing chess on this site?

I learned to play chess in 1678. . . .Correspondence chess was slow going back then.

Phlabibit

Mystic Meg

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Joined: 27 Mar 03
Moves: 17242

31 May 07 23:47

Originally posted by EAPOE
I learned to play chess in 1678. . . .Correspondence chess was slow going back then.

When I was a kid we had to walk up hill both ways in the snow just to make a move.

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Nordlys

The sky

Joined: 05 Apr 05
Moves: 10385

31 May 07 23:52

Originally posted by Phlabibit
When I was a kid we had to walk up hill both ways in the snow just to make a move.

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When I was a kid, chess wasn't invented yet.

huckleberryhound

Devout Agnostic.

DZ-015

Joined: 12 Oct 05
Moves: 42584

31 May 07 23:53

I invented chess.

darvlay

Joined: 05 Jan 04
Moves: 45179

31 May 07 23:58

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
I invented chess.

I'm Zorro.

Ice Cold

Joined: 30 Aug 06
Moves: 28651

01 Jun 07 00:08

Originally posted by darvlay
I'm Zorro.

I'm Batman

huckleberryhound

Devout Agnostic.

DZ-015

Joined: 12 Oct 05
Moves: 42584

01 Jun 07 00:13

Originally posted by Ice Cold
I'm Batman

Now that's just silly.

pawnhandler

tinyurl.com/ywohm

Joined: 01 May 07
Moves: 27860

01 Jun 07 00:13

When I was a kid, we had to pick up real knights and bishops and move them.

Phlabibit

Mystic Meg

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Joined: 27 Mar 03
Moves: 17242

01 Jun 07 00:16

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Originally posted by pawnhandler
When I was a kid, we had to pick up real knights and bishops and move them.

When I was a kid we called that chess... not "OTB". All clocks were analog also, we just didn't know it at the time.

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