Chess vs. Checkers

[jameslikespie]

Do you like chess or checkers more? I like chess, checkers is too simple to entertain me.

 

[smithcommajohn]

Chess, ftw! Checkers feels nearly as pointless as tic-tac-toe.

 

[Darby]

I said Chess, but I really like Go.

 

[smithcommajohn]

I said Chess, but I really like Go.

I've always wanted to learn that game, but can't find anyone interested in playing.

 

[Trebuchet]

I've never really developed an interest in chess, and checkers is kind of boring.

My favorite board games are backgammon and gomoku. I have tried Go, and I like it, but I don't have anyone to play it with so I'm not very good.

 

[Solitaire U.]

Chess is ok as a game, but I tend to feel like a pretentious asshole whilst playing, which just doesn't seem to satisfy me as much as others. Checkers I like, because it allows me to multi-task whilst playing with my kids...two birds with one stone and all that.

 

[Darby]

I don't really have anyone to play it with either anymore. When I did it was with my INTJ friend, he tended to beat me at Chess, I tended to win at Go, so we would play a few of each to make sure nobody won too much.

 

[Dormouse]

I like both, played at the same time, and in six dimensions.

 

[Darby]

in six dimensions.

How exactly does that work?

 

[smithcommajohn]

How exactly does that work?

Just like in 5 dimensions, but with an added one. LDO

 

[Jesse]

Chess. I used to have a mate that played very similar to me with tactics and skill so every game went down to the wire. Good fun. Also the day I beat my Dad was glorious although he hasn't played me since.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

I really don't like most board games... I kind of like stratego and black jack(yeah, I know it's not a board game ), I guess.

As a kid my dad(**FP) tried teaching me how to play chess a few times, but there were way too many stupid little rules to remember for me. Maybe I should give it a chance again some day.

 

[NoMan]

I don't particularly enjoy either of them. I really liked checkers as a child because of its quickness and simplicity, and I kind-of like checkers in my early adolescence, but they were a far cry from the kind of depth and intellectual satisfaction I got out of playing things like Civilization or Populous, which my (INFP) dad managed to get me into as a kid, when he found me preoccupying myself with repetitive platformers and shooters.

I find board games to be dull and outdated forms of what (well designed) video games now do better. However, I do understand the novelty of owning a nice board and well-carved pieces, etc.

 

[Solitaire U.]

I find board games to be dull and outdated forms of what (well designed) video games now do better. However, I do understand the novelty of owning a nice board and well-carved pieces, etc.

The human element...aka engaging face to face through a medium not requiring electricity is more powerfully rewarding than the most well designed video game (or masturbatory session, take your pick.). I heartily recommend trying it some time.

 

[NoMan]

The human element...aka engaging face to face through a medium not requiring electricity is more powerfully rewarding than the most well designed video game (or masturbatory session, take your pick.). I heartily recommend trying it some time.

I do "try it some time." When I'm with other people face-to-face-- which is pretty much every day, as I'm surrounded by extroverts-- I don't really enjoy playing games with them, but rather spending time with them, or getting important things done with them. Talking, creativity, witty banter, and the like.

Like I said, I'm not big on board games because I find them dull and outdated. Doesn't make me an antisocial prick.
(just maybe an opinionated one)
I also find video games to collectively be a beautiful new art medium that is still trying to work out its kinks. It's interesting and different from books and movies because they can really show the dynamics of choice. They also combine literary, musical, and cinematic elements all together. I find them less dull than board games, while still often having the same sophistication and level of strategy.

 

[Howerrd]

You jerk-off while engaged in simultaneous banter with extroverts? I have a new hero.

 

[Solitaire U.]

^lol^

 

[NoMan]

You jerk-off while engaged in simultaneous banter with extroverts? I have a new hero.

You register (or were registered by an existing member) just to take forum quotes out of context? Weird.

 

[Awaken]

Chess, ftw! Checkers feels nearly as pointless as tic-tac-toe.

Nothing comes close to the pointlessness of tic tac toe. If you go first you should either win or draw. Not possible to lose if you know what you are doing. After their first move you even know if you will win or draw.

 

[Hadoblado]

Apparently checkers has a similar (but admittedly more complex) flaw. I started reading a paper once about whether the same was true for connect four but didn't want to hear the answer.

 

[smithcommajohn]

Apparently checkers has a similar (but admittedly more complex) flaw. I started reading a paper once about whether the same was true for connect four but didn't want to hear the answer.

See? Diagonally!

Pretty sneaky, sis!

 

[systembust]

Loooove checkers and I don't care who knows it. I'm sure I play in my sleep sometimes, because I wake up with neat new solutions to certain issues. Chess is a wider game, but checkers has a depth of its own as well, despite the claims of its detractors.

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

For all your online Go needs:
http://www.gokgs.com/

If anyone wants to play some teaching games with me, I'd be happy to. We can skype or Gtalk while playing.

And yeah, I prefer Go.

 

[Darby]

For all your online Go needs:
http://www.gokgs.com/

If anyone wants to play some teaching games with me, I'd be happy to. We can skype or Gtalk while playing.

And yeah, I prefer Go.

I'm not good enough to provide teaching games, not by a long shot, but I would be happy to just play a lower level game with anyone. I haven't played in a long time though.

 

[darude11]

Chess, ftw! Checkers feels nearly as pointless as tic-tac-toe.

I like chess too because of same reason! And Tic-tac-toe is really simple, if you are the starting one, just put your symbol in the corner and you have almost win already!

 

[hitode-kun]

I said Chess, but I really like Go.

Same here. I'm pretty much the worst Chess player there is, and my Go isn't any better. I get beaten badly by my brother (younger than me) every time we play Chess, and my cousin (also younger than me) beats me every time we play Go...

 

[Melllvar]

Apparently checkers has a similar (but admittedly more complex) flaw. I started reading a paper once about whether the same was true for connect four but didn't want to hear the answer.

Yes:

In July 2007, in an article published in Science Magazine, Chinook's developers announced that the program had been improved to the point where it could not lose a game.[3] If no mistakes were made by either player, the game would always end in a draw. After eighteen years, they have computationally proven a weak solution to the game of Checkers.[4] Using between two hundred desktop computers at the peak of the project and around fifty later on, the team made just 1014 calculations to search from the initial position to a database of positions with at most ten pieces.

The July 2007 announcement by Chinook's team stating that the game had been solved must be understood in the sense that, with perfect play on both sides, the game will always finish with a draw. Yet, not all positions that could result from imperfect play have been analyzed.

Also Connect Four has been fully solved as well, apparently:

Connect FourSolved first by James D. Allen (Oct 1, 1988), and independently by Victor Allis (Oct 16, 1988).[3] First player can force a win. Strongly solved by John Tromp's 8-ply database[4] (Feb 4, 1995). Weakly solved for all boardsizes where width+height is at most 15[3] (Feb 18, 2006).

Full list here. Apparently Chess and Go are both partially solved.

 

[ElvenVeil]

For all your online Go needs:
http://www.gokgs.com/

If anyone wants to play some teaching games with me, I'd be happy to. We can skype or Gtalk while playing.

And yeah, I prefer Go.

uh sounds like a good idea. I might join the go/chess ranks in the one of the next days