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Post by robeiae on Feb 9, 2017 11:28:28 GMT -5
I'll play with you Cass. Periodically, I've returned to the game when local chess clubs get started, but they never seem to last. But my real game of choice is Risk. I haven't lost a game since 1983...and of course me saying that is dead sexy!
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Post by Amadan on Feb 9, 2017 15:12:21 GMT -5
I don't think I've played a game of Risk since 1983. There are so many better area-control games nowadays...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2017 15:14:31 GMT -5
I've never played it at all. Does that mean I'm not a nerd?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2017 16:46:44 GMT -5
I'll play with you Cass. Periodically, I've returned to the game when local chess clubs get started, but they never seem to last. But my real game of choice is Risk. I haven't lost a game since 1983...and of course me saying that is dead sexy! I shall add chess to the list of things we might do should we ever meet. I'm pretty sure, though, we'd spend most of the time sampling scotch, engaging in heated argument, and snarking, with occasional references to old movies.
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Post by Amadan on Feb 10, 2017 8:26:25 GMT -5
No long, steamy game of Risk?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 8:34:35 GMT -5
Ew.
ETA:
Now, Scrabble, on the other hand...
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Post by Amadan on Feb 10, 2017 8:36:43 GMT -5
True. Twilight Imperium is much better.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 8:38:45 GMT -5
I'm not sure I have enough floor space in my apartment for that one.
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Post by Amadan on Feb 10, 2017 8:43:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 8:51:59 GMT -5
yeah, I'd have to start knocking down walls between apartments for that one.
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Post by robeiae on Feb 10, 2017 8:55:20 GMT -5
I tell you what was a great board game: Titan. I had the original version, before Avalon Hill bought the rights to it. Also, Avalon Hill's Dune.
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Post by Amadan on Feb 10, 2017 9:50:09 GMT -5
I only played Titan once, long ago. It still has a following at tournaments.
I still own Dune. Have not had a chance to play it in years.
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Post by robeiae on Mar 7, 2017 9:17:41 GMT -5
Okay I missed an update, of sorts (a two part update, actually). There was a tournie to crown a Women's World Champion that just ended last week. The new champion is Tan Zhongyi, who won the 64-player knockout-style event. The previous champion--Hou Yifan, whose protest at an open tournie was the genesis of this thread--didn't show, because she was protesting AGAIN: Okay, I guess. I'm not sure here protest has any legs, though. I don't think enough people care about that angle. But other women players boycotted this tournie--which was held in Tehran--for a very different reason: The Wolrd Chess Federation (FIDE) is in charge of these tournaments. WTF is it doing, allowing this sort of thing to happen? Imo, the above rule should have disqualified Iran as a host country right off the bat.
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Post by robeiae on Oct 7, 2017 9:29:34 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Dec 20, 2017 20:29:26 GMT -5
I have no words...
That's the logo for the 2018 World Chess Championships.
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