mmm, I play chess.

We had several matche being played in this forum, 1 - 1.5 years ago. Moves and position diagrams were displayed in dedicated threads. After some time, the idea died.

Sky was at work this day, and it really was a sh!tty day.

I'm a Candidate Master 2100 Elo i think, but
some times ago.
Now, only non competitive tournaments
and some endgame studies

'Pull the tail of the mammoth' is probably older.

:rotfl:

He wasn't counting deadly games.

The probably oldest game of mankind is called Kalaha, probably was "invented" in Africa, and experts say that it is several thousand years old (7000 years and more). Gameplans for it were also found in the Cheops pyramide, and the Egyptians seem to have played it a lot. It is known under more than a dozen different names.

Interested? -> Google.

Maybe even older is "cowboys and Indians".

But without doubt the oldest game of mankind is "How do I get her attention, and how do I keep the others away."

:roll: :rotfl:

I would think that Hide and seek would be the first developed game
of all.

I Love Chess but dont get to play often.

Then let's start a game.

1.d4
Not an aggessive developement concept
A positional move, it controls the central squares
c5 and e5 and open some lines to the black bishop
This move it's not so dinamical like 1.e4 that
many times open the position and creates very dinamical play.

So ...now yours move and yours coments
1. ....

Better try a separate thread for that, where exclusively your and your opponent's moves and comments are listed. One thread per match running.

You should also say by which rules you want to play. Are books allowed or not? Are computer analysis allowed, or not?

By experience (having played several such matches here myself), I recommend that both of you agree on the code for correspondence chess: books allowed, computers considered to be banned (you can't control that thing anyway). Obeying such self-obligations are very much a question of honour of both players.

If you find an opponent, I am willing to illustrate the match by providing nice little wooden diagrams after each move.

No not a match
An illustrative and collaborative game
illustrating analysis, strategy, and so on
It does not matter if you use books and so on,
its important to say what you think,weakness....
strategy, tatics, pawns structure,and so on...open files
weak squares, space, bishop pair, the center,
assessing the position....

My father was an average chess player, and taught me a bit. Probably as he was an Architect in real life, his brain was well suited for that game. I studied laws and was always bad in anything except the basic maths, so I am very bad in chess. But my worsest drawback for that game is probably my lack of patiente :down:

It's a very fast game, too many thing to evaluate,
to many ideas.
Not so logic game, a sort of Art