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[jaydub]

My 9 y/o daughter is interested in Chess.  Its something I foster of course (although other homework has to be done first).  Other than knowing the basic order of play I have no chess knowledge, but we hack away at it together.  She still doesn't get knight moves, and I'm pretty sure this is mostly a ploy for monopolizing Daddy's attention from her younger brother and older cousin, but I like it anyway.  Makes our games move fast though, since we need to cram them in between dinner and bedtime (8:30 for her).

[Carlos del Vaca]

That's the strange thing. My patience level is as low as it has ever been, but lately I've been playing a lot of chess (and hold em).

Now oddly enough, though I haven't been playing much lately, I am very patient when it comes to poker. One thing I got really good at was hanging around when short-stacked, and making my way to the final table even if I started out poorly.

I need to play poker again, I miss that, but I was playing the Wednesday night game at a local bar at 10 PM. That meant if you made it to the final table you weren't out of there until 1 AM. And lately I just can't hack those kind of late nights.

[theinevitable]

I joined a board games Meetup group, but so far the meetings near me are on days I have work late at the store. I only started getting emails from them a few weeks ago, so it's bound to work out sooner or later.

The real "meetup" that needs to happen is with my young lady friends from this summer, who played that game with me every night for weeks. But they have all sorts of "homework" and stuff. Also, when all of your friends live in walking distance, it is hard to motivate yourself to drive across town to play board games with some 23 year old weirdo on a saturday night, instead of getting drunk/high and not having to worry about driving home.

[jay-ell]

I've never played Puerto Rico but the anniversary edition is calling out to me. Have you tried Meetup? There are several board game groups in my area that I found that way.  And have you played San Juan? It's a card-based version of Puerto Rico that's a bit faster to learn and play from what I understand.

San Juan is one of my favorite games ever of all time. Come visit, I will teach you to play.

[pmcd9]

Board games or bored games amirite?  Just kidding.  I love to play chess.  I'm no good at it, never read a book, but it's a fun game to play.  I should go do that.

[CortJstr]

She still doesn't get knight moves

My dad taught me knights move one up and two over or two up and one over and it always took me forever to figure out all the places a knight could move. Then I learned the simpler method of one up and one diagonal and the game started going so much faster.

Oh, and JL, I've played San Juan once, but I haven't played Puerto Rico yet

[miles]

My 9 y/o daughter is interested in Chess.

My friend recently started to get more into chess. He has a lot more background than me and knows much more about strategy, but it had been a while. He was actually to a chess club and stuff. Anyway, a few months ago his status update was something about how he beat a child at chess and felt good about it. People were horrified. But hey, gotta start somewhere.

So a friend at work is up for some chess, so we're going to set up a small board in between cubicles and take turns between busy times. I just need to get good enough so I don't lose every time. At least get some stalemates, you know?

Now oddly enough, though I haven't been playing much lately, I am very patient when it comes to poker. One thing I got really good at was hanging around when short-stacked, and making my way to the final table even if I started out poorly.

I need to play poker again, I miss that, but I was playing the Wednesday night game at a local bar at 10 PM. That meant if you made it to the final table you weren't out of there until 1 AM. And lately I just can't hack those kind of late nights.

One of these days I'm going to enter a tournament in Wendover. It's a pretty short drive and they are usually relatively cheap. I've never played like for actual money. Just with buddies with like $25 buy-ins and online.

[AugustWest]

My dad taught me knights move one up and two over or two up and one over and it always took me forever to figure out all the places a knight could move. Then I learned the simpler method of one up and one diagonal and the game started going so much faster.

I used to think of it as the opposite corner of a 2x3 rectangle.

Not much of a chess player, though.  Anybody play bridge?

[jay-ell]

Oh, and JL, I've played San Juan once, but I haven't played Puerto Rico yet

In that case, come visit and I will totally school you.

Anybody ever play Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls?

[CortJstr]

My current obsession that I'd been waiting for for over a year is Airlines Europe. It's like if Ticket to Ride had sex with Acquire. Hot freaky boardgame sex. Bow chicka wow wa

[Nabubrush]

I am bringing my Mom's Mah Jongg set home this time. It's really beautiful - all ivory and bamboo and shit. I probably won't ever play it.

[theinevitable]

you guys are dorks, the knights move like that one Tetris piece.

[jay-ell]

you guys are dorks, the knights move like that one Tetris piece.

THIS

[miles]

Wow, seems like a lot of us are working on our knight moves. Strange how the knight moves.

[jay-ell]

Wow, seems like a lot of us are working on our knight moves. Strange how the knight moves.

I thought of this previously but couldn't quite find the joke. Cans for making it work.