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user-inactivated  ·  2118 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: White to move. What do you do?

Ick. I barely know how to play chess and even I can tell that looks sticky.

Only thing I can think of is move the pawn from E-4 to F-5.

Edit: No. Wait. Cause then your queen is still at risk. I dunno.





Devac  ·  2118 days ago  ·  link  ·  

g5 pawn takes the Queen Scot free.

user-inactivated  ·  2118 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. Literally just caught that. Have you considered a new hobby? Maybe Boggle?

Devac  ·  2118 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah. Chess is great. It's just the right combination of cunning, strategy and imagination that I don't get in most other (competitive) hobbies, especially now when my RPG group's schedules can't seem to line up for another month in a row. Maybe I'll give Shogi one more try, but I'm likely too far-gone to switch gears between those games.

Never tried, or heard much of, Boggle. Speed-based Scrabble where everyone gets the same letters sounds better than most other word games I tried so far.

Quatrarius  ·  2118 days ago  ·  link  ·  

shogi is lots of fun and very different feeling from chess from a mental perspective - i almost find it easier to forget what i know about chess when playing shogi because the drop/promotion mechanics make things so different

plus it's a lot more defensive at the start which i enjoy more - i feel so rushed at the beginning of a chess game

user-inactivated  ·  2118 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Boggle is a lot of fun. Once you play about half a dozen games, you start to really get the hang of finding words in all sorts of directions.