On the green bar go to share>members. Then on the right hand side there is a box which says 'search members'. Just type in the name of any one of us from the first page of this thread, and then click the arrow to search.

No, it's not exclusively a pay site, and you can have as many concurrent games as you like, enter a few cups and post on the forums. You can upgrade though and get a load of extra features, such as unlimited cups, puzzles and tutoring.

And if the promo page comes up, there should be a link on the right hand side which says 'continue to my home'. Click it and it will take you to your home page

We might as well just hand the title to WUB

I suspected that may be the case.

I'll be back on it tomorrow hopefully if my heads less 'fuzzy'.

Anyway, these games are cobweb blowerofferer games, let's just lull him into a false sense of security

Yeah, cobwebs, false sense of security.. That's the one

Ok, sinuses are clearing so I'm back on this today. If I'm currently playing you it's your move!

oioioi wrote:

oioioi wrote:


Good games so far... apart from getting hammered twice by WUB....
WUB I'm sure in the 2nd game you could've finished me off a few times but instead went for taking all my pieces as well!
Good long game with MP........ draw all the way, but then I fucked up at the end thinking we'd both get pawns into a queen within a move of each other, but it ended in tears for me!
Still on opening moves with oi!
I'm right for more... so feel free to challenge me again.....
This time... let the Wookie win.

I like chess but often I ponder too long at all the options of moves and strategies! One thing occurs to me - if you play online, what's to stop someone having an additional program running to input moves into and cheat their way to victory? I guess that's not cricket

Magpie wrote:

Nothing at all but it would be pretty pointless playing!
You can actually save the games as a .png at any time which will probably load in a Windows based chess game if you wanted some artificial help!
Good job there's no money involved!

I was 3 hrs off forfeiting against mild peril!

Ah, you're back on it!
I presume you've been busy destroying the internet?

Had a mate and his wife here for the last couple of nights, been showing them the sights...bars.

Water tight alibi for when the net goes down.

Space Bandit wrote: I was one move away from mate several times, but you kept blocking me. Chess is all about experience, really. It was a very even game at the start, but you made a couple of errors. It's never a good idea to let your opponent establish two rooks on the 7th rank, particularly if your king's on the back row. I will challenge you to some more games in due course when I get chance.Magpie wrote: People cheat all the time. I've played tonnes of people in 5 minute chess who were using computers. Also, players are caught cheating at professional chess tournaments all the time, every couple of months. All of the big chess sites have mechanisms in place to detect cheating and kick people out for doing so on a constant basis. It's pretty easy to tell if someone's cheating if you're playing a short game because they tend to take exactly the same amount of time over every move no matter how easy it is. I've beaten quite a few people using computers by 'closing' the game down and making the opponent run out of time. I'm not so sure about longer games, but it's usually quite easy to spot computer play as computers make incredible moves, defend with phenomenal accuracy, and tend to play planlessly with lots of moves that look illogical to humans.

wake_up_bomb wrote:
I know yeh.... I think by that point I'd made it too difficult for myself to avoid it though.
Look forwards to some more games.

Pasted by WUB twice again.... made mistakes & just can't seem to get any decent attack going.
I'm struggling a bit with these long games as well.... by the time the next move comes, I've forgotten all the things about where I'm at / what I'm doing!

Well I've just won my first 2 games....
albeit because MP forfeited the games by not playing his moves on time, rendering them totally hollow victories.
Howay MP, where have you gone?

WUB I couldn't see any way out of that so I gave you the easiest move to finish me off rather than resign this time!
Good game that.... it was nicely poised for ages but you ground me down eventually.
Once that castle came next to the knight towards the end I was fucked.

This looks like fun, how do you play? is it like Battleships?

It's very pervy too, so that;s good............

Space Bandit wrote: Loads of pieces around the king is not a good sign. You're standing better in the other game, I think my attacking ideas there were a bit ill-conceived.