Checkmate! The Tapology Chess Thread

Welcome to the official Tapology Chess Thread, the place to discuss all things related to chess! It doesn't matter if you're a Grandmaster or a novice, everyone's welcome!

I've also made the Tapology Chess Club on Chess.com that anyone can join as long as they confirm what their username on here is! There's not level requirements so anyone regardless of their rating can join! There might be tournaments and things in the group, although at the moment, it is still in the experimental stage and I'm still figuring it out as I go along but hopefully this thread should help organise it a bit more! Anyway, here's the link for anyone who wants to join:

https://www.chess.com/club/tapology-chess-club

For anyone new to chess or have never tried it, Chess.com have some great tutorials to learn from and I found this good WikiHow article that explains the basics of chess:

https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Chess-for-Beginners

Any questions at all, just ask! There's no such thing as a stupid question in this thread! 

OMG I'm the first commenter on this thread, what should I say?! Ummmmm checkmate, knight to f4 something something...

* Edited at 06.27.2022, 9:45 PM ET *

@Cheeseball

Better than the time I made another thread and @ImperatorFishrat opened it by calling everyone a ******. 

Lol which thread was that?

* Edited at 06.27.2022, 9:51 PM ET *

@Cheeseball

I can't remember off the top of my head but I'm pretty sure it was back when he still had his @ImperatorFishrat account lol!

Im IN ...
But i don't know how this thing works... !?

Same deal here. I'll see if I can get some practice done in my spare time.

Who this ******* ******** with the dishlikes... !?
You can dishlike all my posts... i don't give a Flying F 16... You can't even touch me... im light years ahead... and you know it... now go **** yourself...

@Cheeseball


Yeah it's a little bit weird site... 
I need some practice on both... L☻L !

@Stephen to be fair, what did you really think was going to happen?

*** is this thing...
they don't have anything better to do... !?

Anyone want to play a game?  I can't sleep.

if I only had subscribed to this thread I'd read your post earlier

No worries.  I played the computer. :)

You guys are improving Im about to go 2-100

I had a great elementary school teacher that let us do loads of art and play chess alot.... I played my friend in real life a while ago and im a bit rusty for sure

Always ready to play :) 

I'm currently following a tutorial on chessstratagy.com (mainly cause I'm too cheap to pay for chess.com). When I feel like I'm ready I'll challenge one of you.

* Edited at 06.28.2022, 11:54 AM ET *

if anyone wants to play I have free time

challange me: fremen2

* Edited at 06.28.2022, 12:40 PM ET *

Chess.com also also has computer coaches of various levels that you can play matches against which won't **** up your record to get some practice in. I've just opted for the hard option and just playing random people online. In my "proper" games the 10 min rapid chess games I've gone 8-10-0 and I've done quite a few of the 1 minute bullet or "speed" chess games which a lot of the time just come down to who can react quicker but it's good for improving the speed of your thinking. My record in those is now 32-51-2 lol!

When i have finished with my Pick ⛏ Up Trucks im doing some practice with the computer... ! That Jonny guy is a tropical beach... L☻L ! If you have any free time hit me up... !