kibitzer

Can somenone explain this term to me please.

Cheers

-Robbo

It's someone who watches a game in progress,and gives all sorts of unwanted advice, opinions and "help" to the players

Cool, thought it was something along those lines, thanks for confirming this.

-Robbo

Originally posted by sundown316
It's someone who watches a game in progress,and gives all sorts of unwanted advice, opinions and "help" to the players

Cheers all

I think I cracked it, maybe I wasn't particularly clear in first post, this was relating to some new chess software I received and there are plenty of options for kibitzer mode.
Thanks for the help.

-Robbo

Originally posted by Mephisto2
not true. A kibitzer watches the game but doesn't interfere. Only when is separate analysis rooms, comments can be exchanged.

I was referring to casual games.

I think on-line sites for real-time games have a kibitz feature that allows the observers of a game to talk without disturbing the players. The messages do not go to the players of the game. But I also found this definition:

Kibitzer: someone who gives good advice to your opponent and bad advice to you. ( http://www.edcollins.com/chess/glossary.htm )

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