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Originally posted by David TebbI guess it depends on your defenition of a 'side', whether you are talking about the flat thing you get in geometric shapes or the 16 pieces you get at the start of a chess game. A game of chess traditionally has 2 sides, 4 edges & 4 corners. A game of football (soccer) has 2 sides, 4 edges but the number or 'corners' can vary wildly. Isn't language wonderful 😕
Really? A normal chessboard is a square, and squares usually have 4 sides!
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Originally posted by belgianfreakLol,
I guess it depends on your defenition of a 'side', whether you are talking about the flat thing you get in geometric shapes or the 16 pieces you get at the start of a chess game. A game of chess traditionally has 2 sides, 4 edges & 4 corners. A game of football (soccer) has 2 sides, 4 edges but the number or 'corners' can vary wildly. Isn't language wonderful 😕
I thought I had you cornered, but you know all the angles! 😀
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Originally posted by LivingLegendI'm guessing your talking about the chess board I saw,
150 Dollars??? That's a lot of money, here in Holland I've paid about 40 Dollars for it, 35 Euro's or 75 Guilders........
Yes $150 but I just found a pic of one the internet so I enlarged it and I'm going to make my own board and then order some chess-men😀
Originally posted by belgianfreak
good idea for the financially challenged. Just make sure you order 3 destinctly different colours of chess men.
Where do you plan to go to order 1 and a half sets anyway? I'm sure it's possible, but maybe not easy.
I think I'll order 2 sets of un-finished chess-men and paint 1 side white another black and finley one red and I'll sell the last side on e-bay😀
Originally posted by royalchickeni play ultima. it has chess pieces and set-up but the way things move has been screwed around with. 😀
Does anyone play any other chess variants? A friend of mine invented (discovered?) what he calls "hostage chess", in which there is no "check". It is set up exactly like chess, but the white king is set up on black's side and vice versa. To goal is to capture your opponent's king without him capturing yours on the next turn. 'Tis quite interesting.
Originally posted by belgianfreakHmm....
good idea for the financially challenged. Just make sure you order 3 destinctly different colours of chess men.
Where do you plan to go to order 1 and a half sets anyway? I'm sure it's possible, but maybe not easy.
It seems almost all the chessmen (by them selfs, not with a board)
are $75-to-$270 and a chess-set at wal-mart costs less than $10 so unless someone knows of a website that sells chess sets for less than $10 I may end up buy 2 chess sets from wal-mart....this is getting complcated😕
Originally posted by belgianfreakAhhh, can imagine that this is very interesting!! You just ain't too agressive!
Anyway, I found the game a nice curiosity, but pretty pointless. Unless I was missing something, the major flaw was that whoever attacked first always lost, the person he attacked came second, and the person who stayed passive the longest won. The reason is that the first aggressor weakens himself against the person he attacks, and is easy prey for the ...[text shortened]... aunching an attack one way and then seeing a weakness in the other side. But not a serious game.
@UncleAdam: Thanks for the link - explained everything.