Its a strategic war game. The pieces are based on military ranks and structures.
Shut up, you don’t even internet 
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Jeeze you go into bat for a bloke and he turns on ya. They have a name for that turncoat 
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Hehe. Don’t make me go all homoerotic on you, you know how shy you get.
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Havent played for years.
Will check it out. Thansk for the link
I’m definitely not a grandmaster but like to get the board out from time to time. Never played on line.
I hadnt played for perhaps 15 years. Eleven year old grandson has taken it up and wanted a game about two month ago. Little bugger thrashed me twice. 
I haven’t played in years until I started catching public transport. It’s pretty neat, playing against other people online, to/from work.
I play online poker /card games. Played chess a fair bit when I was younger. Problem I had was finding people to play against. Might check it out.
I am finding that every player seems to try the same dumb arse move to win the game in the first 3 moves.
Soon as i see the opening move, i just my knight to counter the punch and they either resign or just continue on as if they havent even seen my move.
Had one opponent so focused on making this move he just put his queen in range of my knight. I took their queen… they messaged me calling me a cheat and quit lol
Heh, I have no idea about your setup that you’re describing… However, you’ll find that as you move up the point ladder, it gets a bit more serious. 850+ points is where you start needed to focus on positional chess.
The move is,
White pawn from E2 > E3
White bishop F1 > C4
White Queen D1 > F3
White queen F3 > F7
Check mate
Its like every 2nd game is a variant of this move.
Lol
How many points are you on?
Just got back to 450…
Yeah, that’s why. Easy pray. Generally, under 800, people just consider you new to chess and start doing kid stuff. Get to 800 - 850.
I think the move you’re describing is called the Scholar’s Mate?
I use it a lot with beginners to show them how it works. If they have any brains it only works once or not at all but you can also use it as a bluff to set up some other moves and force pieces into play.
It’s basically the first move decribed in ‘how to play chess’ books.
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I was thinking about something like this the other day…
There are those of us that put their minds to good use 
Not surprising, that it’s always shooters though…!!! 