c_h_e_s_s nah....! i want to play with you right now: yes, under the moon with 88 candles burning.........and we can use the good chess set and drink merlot. we can! we can. we can.... please, i don't want to play solitary chess, and merlot is no fun to drink alone, either. 011119 ... jisy checkers is so much better than chess 011119 ... jisy and merlot? why not BEER?!!!!! 011119 ... nah....! jisy, damn you! ; ) 011119 ... god drinkin' and chess? i'm there! 011119 ... nah....! yeay! but, um, you weren't there last night when i wanted to play. : ( 011119 ... god i had to sleep. it was time. 011120 ... nah....! yeah yeah yeah. oh well. dum-te-dum. 011120 ... nah....! i'm in the mood for chess again. goddamn. but i am alone. i am very very very alone. 011128 ... ClairE Francesca. Also a sexy_name, like Gretchen. 011128 ... nah....! i played chess in my mind yesterday evening. one of the queens knocked both of the kings off the board. i couldn't help but laugh. "the board of love?" "sure" oh_dear 011216 ... nah....! chess is i_n_s_a_n_i_t_y at its finest. 020120 ... angie chess is really great...my friends and i are on a major chess kick. iT takes sooo much concentration. i was at a party...and all i wanted to do was play chess...how fucked up is that. oh well its me i guess yea... me... 020120 ... nah....! not fucked up at all not at fucking all in many ways, chess is a metaphor for life and love and dreams and nightmares i wish i had someone to play with. 020120 ... cube My dad taught me chess from a tender age. At first he played without his major pieces and as i gradually improved, he'd add one more. He never let me win to appease me. In fact, i didn't win a single game off him for many years. Naturally, i was proud of that first because i knew i'd earned it. (Epiphany) Maybe that's why my political perspective is so hawkish :-) ³ 020121 ... merbein Perhaps someone needs to start a game of chess here. How about d2 - d4 for an opening? 021111 ... stork daddy how about g8 to f6 as a response? 021111 ... p2 www.kungfuchess.com 021112 ... Rhin i never learned to play chess. i know that it requires a great deal of strategy and concentration. i have never found anyone with enough time and patience to want to teach me. someday... 021112 ... Dr. Blather You can play with other beginners online... try yahoo or msn games. There are also strategy links and chess tutorials at the msn chess site. In terms of mental exercise, Chess is like arobics/yoga/weightlifting and hiking all in one. Your brain, like your body and spirit, can't function at peak levels without the exercise it craves. 021112 ... oldephebe i suck at chess..never took the time to really apply myself to the study, the discipline the game requires... 040121 ... Keil I was always good at it, but I never did anything with it but whoop a coupla freashmen in the chess club who thought they were all that. I beat one in just seven moves. He probably couldn't tell the difference between the bishop and the knight. 060913 what's it to you? who go blather from