Well, your not alone in hating chess. Edgar Alan Poe disliked the game too, although for different reasons than you. He thought the overcomplicated motions distracted from proper analysis of the game, and thus checkers was a better game. But I don't see where you're getting at. Every game has rules. What kind of game would it be if everybody made up whatever bullshit came to mind?
I hereby dislike chess.
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My fellow Californian is right, stop complaining about it just because you're not good at it.xmetatr0nx said:
If everyone complained about every game they were bad at, this forum would be filled with threads until it exploded into a million gazillion pieces of code.
You just need some practice
Rules call for strategy, because no matter what the situation, there will always be limitations, you cannot always win through the strenght of an ambush.
Try out different strategies, try to see what risks pay off and what risks don`t. Chess is more about reading the opponant and trying to understand their next moves, rather than reading a board.
If all else fails, just tip over the board and have a hissy fit.
Rules call for strategy, because no matter what the situation, there will always be limitations, you cannot always win through the strenght of an ambush.
Try out different strategies, try to see what risks pay off and what risks don`t. Chess is more about reading the opponant and trying to understand their next moves, rather than reading a board.
If all else fails, just tip over the board and have a hissy fit.
White has an advantage so it isn't that both sides are equal. I don't exactly love the game because being really good at it involves memorising a large amount of moves so you can work out what to do. That's some serious self inflicted brain damage.
Dice games shouldn't exist. I hate games that ultimately are decided by luck. Risk is one of them. It's fun and all, but theoretically a 2-man army could defeat a 25-man army. My friend has seen it happen.Layzor said:
"Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art."
-Napolean Bonaparte
At this point anything I say would just be repeating what everyone else has said, so I'll say this: Chess has been a game that has shaped the ages, like it or not it involves strategy and improves one's ability to think. It's ability to do this derives from the rules and limitations set on it. As such I believe I speak for most-everyone out there in saying Shut up and deal with it.
-Napolean Bonaparte
At this point anything I say would just be repeating what everyone else has said, so I'll say this: Chess has been a game that has shaped the ages, like it or not it involves strategy and improves one's ability to think. It's ability to do this derives from the rules and limitations set on it. As such I believe I speak for most-everyone out there in saying Shut up and deal with it.
Actually, I've played a couple games like that. They were very fun in a room of intellectuals, but notably boring when my opponents were less than clever.somekindarobot said:
Nomic [http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm#intro] was one of them, I can't remember what the other one was. I remember that it was less intellectual than Nomic, but just as fun. It was an Uno-like rule stacking card game where the winner of the last round got to make up a new rule and the rules could not be told to new players. Supremely amusing.
Aaannyway...
The key to chess is to lose to people better than you. A lot. All of your points are invalid, for the multitude of reasons listed above. It's a game of analysis and strategy, not of life.
