Mine are all "virtual"... no dimensions at all.😲
Seriously, bucky... I think that it takes a special kind of person to really enjoy and be good at chess. Concentration and the ability to see and feel spacial context is not too common. I think there will always be 5% who love chess and 5% (like me) who can play a little but enjoy it only mildly... and 90% who would concider it about as much fun as getting shots at the doctor. (my wife and kids fit into this group)
Originally posted by PhlabibitYea, but at that rez, all my VB forms dissappear into never never land in the IDE. I have a 24 inch monitor at about 10 times that rez, just so i can get to what i need, when i need it.😵 With a second monitor off to the side full of crap too!🙄
if you use 800x600 resolution or smaller on your computer you will have the big chess. If you are set at 1024x768 or larger you will have the small pieces.
Originally posted by StarValleyWyThe U.K. could have done more to support children.In my memory they have not invested anything like into education.As a consequence teachers here will not do any after school clubs.It is about people voting for tax breaks.
Mine are all "virtual"... no dimensions at all.😲
Seriously, bucky... I think that it takes a special kind of person to really enjoy and be good at chess. Concentration and the ability to see and feel spacial context is not too common. I think there will always be 5% who love chess and 5% (like me) who can play a little but enjoy it only mildly... ...[text shortened]... ider it about as much fun as getting shots at the doctor. (my wife and kids fit into this group)
Lyn.
Originally posted by missleadThat is true but I have an idea that could solve such things
The U.K. could have done more to support children.In my memory they have not invested anything like into education.As a consequence teachers here will not do any after school clubs.It is about people voting for tax breaks.
Lyn.
The public interest in chess is indeed an issue. Considering that the World Championships were moved... consider any other kind of sports: "Sorry, we're not interested in hosting the Olympics anyway, but... you'll find somewhere, I guess..."
Chess is on a low level here, in Denmark, but there's an interesting project coming around with the Mensa organization cooperating with chess clubs for children. Getting children hooked is, after all, the way to increase popularity. Just look at pop music.
Originally posted by NetizenIt'd be nice to find at least one (real world) chess cafe every now and then, the kind I've heard they had in "the old days" where amateurs and professionals could rub shoulders and play "skittles", quick games for fun, or play for money sometimes letting rich customers beat them.
The public interest in chess is indeed an issue. Considering that the World Championships were moved... consider any other kind of sports: "Sorry, we're not interested in hosting the Olympics anyway, but... you'll find somewhere, I guess..."
Chess is on a low level here, in Denmark, but there's an interesting project coming around with the Mensa organi ...[text shortened]... . Getting children hooked is, after all, the way to increase popularity. Just look at pop music.
Irving Chernev says in his book The Bright Side of Chess that many masters had to play for shillings in their early days.
While you don't find this much anymore (although there was a game for $300 in my local pub in Australia) I still think that chess is alive and well. Chess players pop up in all sorts of strange places.
Outside the pavilion on Sydney's Bondi Beach old men pull out their domino sets and chess boards while the yuppies show off their tans.
In youth hostels I've played several Europeans and I played against a Japanese guy who was an excellent shogi player but had never played chess before.
I played against him with a Korean guy helping me and he played with an Australian guy helping him. The Japanese guy picked the game up in about two seconds and our game went for an hour and swung back and forth before I finally won. That was perhaps my favourite game of chess ever.
I was also surprised to find that chess was reasonably popular in Bali when I went there three years ago. My wife and I hired a driver and guide for a day (brothers) and they both played chess. I sat down to a couple of games with them while the older brother proudly told me about his experience burning and looting a government building. He didn't look very pleased when I beat him either. looking back, maybe I should have let him win.
Anyway, I think you will always find chess players if you look hard enough.