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charles dickens asked:


I am sure she is moving the chess pieces when I am not looking.

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Star asked:


So I know that in chess, a pawn can only move forwards and can only jump diagonally.

But I was wondering if other pieces can take a pawn straight on.

Like how a rook can only move straight. If a pawn is right next to a rook, the pawn cannot take the rook, but can the rook take the pawn?

Oh, and I have another question.

You know how when you put the other player in check you have to say, “check”?

Well, if you opponent puts himself in check, do you have today anything, or can you just take the king?
“today” was supposed to be “to say”

My bad

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proust_1922 asked:


I’m relatively new to chess, meaning that I’ve known the rules of chess for a long time but I’ve never seriously looked into strategies of play or ways in which to increase my abilities until recently. I have been using a few books – ‘Logical Chess’ by Irving Chernev and ‘The Game of Chess’ by Siegbert Tarrasch. Frankly, going through the first couple of chapters of both of these “beginner” books has been incredibly difficult for me as I have a very difficulty time mentally picturing even simple exchanges. Even while playing through the descriptions over the board I tend to lose my sense of material gain or loss. I simply couldn’t tell you whether I’ve won or lost an exchange involving, say, 2 or 3 of my own pieces and 2 or 3 of my opponent’s pieces.

Let me give you a little more background. I am no stranger to mental effort and I understand the experience of continued concentration on a subject. I have a university degree in the humanities, have learned foreign languages, and am able to read music. I’m not saying these things to prop myself up, but to illustrate a discrepancy. My friends say that I couldn’t find my way out of a paper bag but I can talk and write circles around most people. My college entrance scores (many moons ago) reflect this apparent dichotomy in my brain. I would not have passed ‘mechanical engineering 101′ but scored above 97% average for linguistic/verbal skills on the ACT.

Ironically – I very much enjoyed a few passages from Aaron Nimzowitsch’s book ‘My System’ in which he describes the relationship between certain chess elements. My question is this – Is it possible that some people are just not cut out for chess? Is it highly likely that I will never become proficient at chess; no matter how hard I work at it? I had the initial thought that I could use chess to sort of ’round out’ my mental abilities but perhaps it would be more beneficial to spend my energies elsewhere.

What do you think?

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Regional BLoKE asked:


I would like to make a chess board on which I can play almost any chess variant using a rectangular board. Some examples:

http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/acedrex.html

http://www.chessvariants.org/historic.dir/courier.html

http://www.chessvariants.com/d.photo/taishogi/taipic.html

Considering that I can make any number of pieces for the board if I can make a board, what would you recommend as to the size of the grid, the size of the board itself, and constructing it? Checkered or non-checkered? Making it one board, or several linkable and removable parts? Ect.

Thank you in advance.

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foxxy76_33 asked:


and if so who and what are controlling the pieces.

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mrperu16 asked:


Now im using the following code to make a chess game in Java, however im getting an error message, anyone know what im doing wrong?

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.ComponentOrientation;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.InputEvent;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.TreeMap;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JToolBar;
import java.awt.Dimension;

public class ChessGame extends JFrame {

private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

private JPanel jContentPane = null;

private JPanel jPanel = null;

private JToolBar tlbMain = null;

private JLabel lblCells[] = new JLabel[64];

private String jPieces[][] = new String[8][8]; // @jve:decl-index=0:

private JButton btnNewGame = null;

private JLabel lblStatus = null;

private int heldX, heldY, heldI = -1;

// Map the full names of the pieces to their codenames (wRook, wQueen, etc.)
private Map pieceName = new TreeMap(); // @jve:decl-index=0:

private JLabel lblCurrPlayer = null;

// Stores the current player’s move – we can easily match it against
// the first character of the pieces array
private char currPlayer = ‘ ‘;

private JButton btnUndo = null;

private int[][] moves = new int[10][6];

private String movedPieces[] = new String[10];

private int currMove = 0;

/**
* This is the default constructor
*/
public ChessGame() {
super();
initialize();
buildBoard();
}

/**
* This method initializes btnUndo
*
* @return javax.swing.JButton
*/
private JButton getBtnUndo() {
if (btnUndo == null) {
btnUndo = new JButton();
btnUndo.setText(”Undo”);
btnUndo.setEnabled(false);
btnUndo.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() {
public void mouseReleased(java.awt.event.MouseEvent e) {
undoMove();
}
});
}
return btnUndo;
}

public static void main( String args[] ) {
new ChessGame().setVisible(true);
}

/**
* This method initializes this
*
* @return void
*/
private void initialize() {
this.setSize(671, 555);
this.setContentPane(getJContentPane());
this.setTitle(”Basic Chess”);
this.setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
}

/**
* This method initializes jContentPane
*
* @return javax.swing.JPanel
*/
private JPanel getJContentPane() {
if (jContentPane == null) {
jContentPane = new JPanel();
jContentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
jContentPane.add(getJPanel(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
jContentPane.add(getTlbMain(), BorderLayout.NORTH);
}
return jContentPane;
}

/**
* This method initializes jPanel
*
* @return javax.swing.JPanel
*/
private JPanel getJPanel() {
if (jPanel == null) {
GridLayout gridLayout = new GridLayout();
gridLayout.setRows(8);
gridLayout.setHgap(5);
gridLayout.setVgap(5);
gridLayout.setColumns(8);
jPanel = new JPanel();
jPanel.setLayout(gridLayout);
//buildBoard();
}
return jPanel;
}

private void newGame()
{
resetBoard();
resetPieces();
}

private void resetPieces()
{
jPieces = new String[8][8];
jPieces[0][0] = “bRook”;
jPieces[0][1] = “bKnight”;
jPieces[0][2] = “bBishop”;
jPieces[0][3] = “bKing”;
jPieces[0][4] = “bQueen”;
i get this error message

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: input == null!
at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1322)
at ChessGame.PaintPiece(ChessGame.java:190)
at ChessGame.RepaintPieces(ChessGame.java:215)
at ChessGame.resetPieces(ChessGame.java:180)
at ChessGame.buildBoard(ChessGame.java:352)
at ChessGame.(ChessGame.java:66)
at ChessGame.main(ChessGame.java:89)

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crippen asked:


I just recently got interested in playing chess (which I hadn’t played since I was a child) while watching a friend play online. I got some books on openings, basic chess strategy, and I bought a couple of computerized programs of chess with different difficulty levels.
I’ve tried all these learning tools but my online success rate at the chess sites hasn’t gotten much better at all. The book on openings seemed way too complicated to follow, whille the chess programs seemed a better learning tool. But I still go online and some guy brings his queen early in the game and smashes me to pieces. What would be the best way to get better at this game, just keep playing and getting beaten until I see a pattern, or read more books, or concentrate on the computer programs with increased difficulty level?

mspt98@yahoo.com

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Mr. Murray asked:


I play chess often enough to know when someone is setting up the Knight fork, but I can’t chase after the knight cause it would leave me exposed or pinned on another piece of higher value. I play a fairly conservative if that helps.

Also, I’m looking for a strategy that places my knight in key position for the Knight Fork rather then the tables being turned. Do not say the 4 move checkmate cause I’m not a 7 year old.

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Wayne C asked:


Is there a name for a series of moves where a pawn travels the distance of the board to His opponents King’s Row, and is given the right to make his piece whatever he wants. Is that series of moves or that final move called anything special?

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Justin N asked:


When I was in my late teens/early 20’s, my group of friends and others would go to coffee shops to hang out. It would cost us about a cup of coffee/energy drink per hour. Real cheap entertainment. someone would bring a deck of playing cards, a chess board and pieces, or some other portable form of fun.

What I have noticed is that coffee houses are closing down/becoming obsolete, like the 50’s diners with the soda jerk, or the drive-in diners of the 70’s.

Where do todays young American’s go to be themselves, to hang out and be with friends that is reltively safe and cost efficient?

It was the grunge/coffee house’s of the mid/late 90’s and the early 2000’s that were popular; then corportate coffee joints (think Starbucks and the like) that put the simple and carefree mom n’ pop’s out of business.

So, I ask again, where can one go to hang out? I’m in my very early 30’s and find no place that is equivalent to the coffee house.

Has the world changed that much in the past 5 or 6 years?

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