Chess

When some wonderful person ported GnuChess to the iPhone, I remembered how much I enjoy the game. I started playing again on Chess.com, which has a great slow-paced format that doesn’t require any more attention than you choose. The minimum time limit to make a move is 1 day, so it’s a lot like mail chess, except occasionally when you and your opponent are both online it can move quite a bit faster.

Here’s a link to my first game, where my opponent developed his rook far too early while I was busy setting up mate.

To be fair, the next game I lost just as quickly after some terrible oversight in my opening.

The most recent game I played was a good match where I had a chance to develop a a pawn and a bishop behind enemy lines. I wrote an annotated blog post about it.

So if anyone wants to play, go sign up on chess.com and challange me. My name is samsonasu and I welcome the challenge.