Should i get my boyfriend a marble chess board without storage or a wood board with storage for his birthday?

We both love chess and I already bought the chess pieces separately. I just don't know whether a marble board or a wood board is better.|||The day will eventually arrive where the chess board will be accidentally dropped on the floor. Which do you think will survive that fall unscathed? The wood, of course.





Wooden boards are, and have been for many generations, the board-of-choice for real players. It is one of the ear-marks of a beginner or non-chess player, to use marble, onyx, glass, etc, rather than wood.





Also, consider should you ever want to tote the board and set to a tournament, a friend or relatives house, the marble board would be heavy and still very fragile.





The wooden set wins hands-down!





P.S. Bringing a marble or onyx board to a tournament is certain to elicit many behind-the-hands snickering and derisive chuckling.|||I have one of the marble ones and they're really nice but they're kind of a hassle. You have to have enough room for them (they're pretty bulky) and a place to display it. If the game is something he'd use only occasionally, I'd go for the wood set with the built-in storage.|||If you want to play chess then take a wooden board. No real chess player plays on marble boards as it is a strain on the eyes.





So more simple the colours so better. I would buy just the wooden board and store the pieces somewhere else.|||Hello;





In my opinion a nice wooden board with the storage would be the better. Of course I haven't seen the set, nor do I know if the set is for display or occasional play.





I just like wooden boards better than marble.





Gens Una Sumus,





Bill|||i would go with the glass set, its more elegant, you could put it on lets say for example a coffee table in the living room and it would look nice.|||marble to marble


wood to wood


problem solved


there are nice selections at www.the chess store.com

How do I get rid of the advertisements that appear at the top of my chess game?

When I'm playing chess, advertisements appear at the top of my screen and it takes out the area at the bottom of my screen which stops me from being able to write my opponents. One of the advertisements is Globe Probe.|||1st thing you do when you get in lounge is check small windows in options box.once


in room expand it to see chat area.you only see half of cards but you can still play.and it gets rid of ads.|||unfortunately it isnt possible to disable the ad's all you can do is maximise the room and you should be able to see what your typing to your opponents

Where can i find a store which carries electronic chess sets in Ohio?

I particularly wanted a Mephisto Talking chess trainer or the Mephisto explorer pro, or the carnielian 2 board. Specifically for the referee and hint functions that i can use when i play against friends.


Thanks!|||I'm not sure on the specific set, but you could try





Hyde Park Chess





7672 Montgomery Road #211


Cincinnati, OH 45236


USA





Toll Free: 1-888-272-4931


Local: 1-513-891-5503





sales@hydeparkchess.com

How many complete chess games are possible?

How many chess games are possible that result in checkmate, draw or stalemate?





Can this be calculated?|||Yes, it can be calculated but only approximately. It is known as the Shannon Number. It is very huge.





It was used as an example of why some problems can not be solved by brute force computing but instead computers need to understand strategy and heuristics.|||I think the possibilities are way too large. But professional players do not allow themselves to be checkmated. They resign whenever they realize that result is inevitable.|||G.H Hardy(1997, p.17) estimated the possible chess games as10^10^50.


See chess in ''wolfram'' (google search engine)|||don't think so...too many variables

How do you choose who is white for playing chess ?

I'm learning how to play chess and was wondering how is the best way to decide which player will be white or black ?





And if you are playing the same opponent for several games in a row does the winner always play as white ?|||The way I used to do it was to put a white pawn into my one hand and a black pawn into my other hand, behind my back so the other player can't see. Then stick your hands out and ask them to choose.





After that, you rotate between white and black after each game.

Any real good chess openings to win the game quickly and easily?

I'm a novice and I'd like to improve my chess skills. Thanks.|||No. There are no quick and easy wins, not against good players. That is why chess is a great game.


Here are some basics for you from the US Chess Federation.





http://main.uschess.org/content/view/911鈥?/a>





There is much more to learn.|||No, there aren't.


Unless you're lucky, or playing against a very weak opponent, don't expect to win in the first ten moves or so.


However, knowledge of openings (and more importantly, the principles behind them) will help you to arrive at a playable (possibly winning) position in the middle game.


There are no "quick fixes" in chess, which is why, as the guy above said, it's such a great game!|||The key to winning a chess game is to get a strategic advantage positionally early. This will lead to getting ahead materially (in pieces) as well. Start off by moving one of the center pawns forward. Then make sure to get out your knights and bishops early on. The key is to try to gain control of the center of the board.|||Get your knights out there fast. Watch your opponent, if they move a pon away from the king, move your own pon in front of your bishop and go in for the kill. They'll usually (depending on the set up) use their queen to protect the King, but take her. it's worth loosing a bishop for a queen. always control the center of the board and you'll have the upper hand.|||If there was an easy way to win the game, everybody would use it.





If everybody used it, it wouldn't work anymore.





There are no quick fixes. Go read a book.|||the only advice i can give u is try and control the center of the board,and make sure u put up a strong defense by making sure all of ur pieces re protected it will help u alot|||There are none, however King pawn openings are regarded as the most aggressive.|||even the rookies know about the 4-move mate





...you going to have the learn the HARD way....like the rest of us monkeys

Is the World Chess Championship finally going to be played on a COMPUTER?

Its now 2010, are these world chess championship games still played on an actual board with pieces touched and moved by hand with no computer used the old fashioned low tech way? Why dont they start using a computer for this? Do you think they should start doing this? Why or why not?|||There is a computer world chess championship, but of course this is quite separate from the human variety!


Using a computer in a human chess championship would be akin to firing a shot from a cannon in athletics: not really fair!|||So what if it's 2010? there's nothing wrong with playing with an actual set of men on a real board that's the way the game was meant to be played face to face.|||i don't agree because chess was made for real people with real chess pieces and a real board although there is a computerized chess championship but its kind of cheating because it shows you things plus a computer does not make a mistake they can analyze everything and will never run out of time|||nas谋l|||Computer help is actually becoming more common.





I was in Montreal for the Canadian open a few years ago. They used computers in the Grandmaster section to record the moves and they had giant boards where some of the games were being displayed on live time. So the top players didn't have to worry about punching clocks, or recording moves. Real boards are still better, though, and that's what they used.|||The board and the pieces are part of the enjoyment of the game.





They could play out the games in their mind, and saying out the moves, while going for a walk around the tournament hall, as well. But they don't.





Anyone for boxing and chess.