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Any chess players?

Distortion
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Posted 05/27/03 - 08:14 AM:	#11
Originally posted by Tobias I love to, but.... ehh stupid question, how do I know my IP adress? Heh... well, there's a nice little option in the game that tells you. It's in one of the menus at the top. If all else fails: www.whatismyip.com
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Posted 06/05/03 - 12:24 AM:	#12
Yup, to answer your question...
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Posted 11/18/05 - 02:26 AM:	#13
http://www.uschess.org/ratings/top/0510/18.php I'm number 41. Tobias, Tal was not only a great player, but a great personality as well. Unfortunately, most of his sacrifices were unsound--they were good enough to win most of the time, though! He was a true chess warrior. The philosophy of chess? Unfortunately, chess is one of those technical subjects which can never be truly understood for one simple reason: it is extremely unlikely that a very good chess player would be a good enough philosopher to develop a "theory of chess", and it's equally unlikely that a very good philosopher would be good enough at chess for his theory to be truyly applicable. I assume that you're referring to a sort of "metatheory" of strategy and tactics, since authors such as Nimzowitsch and Fine have developed fairly good simple theories of strategy, and the "philosophy" of tactics is to have the newest version of Fritz installed on your computer.
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Posted 07/04/09 - 09:33 AM:	#14
Chess is a model of life.

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Posted 07/05/09 - 12:18 AM:

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I am not a good chess player and neither a great philosopher, but for thos of you interested I did write something about philosophy and chess. It is here:

http://forums.philosophyforums.com/threads/the-phenomenology-of-chess-chess-as-a-metaphysical-metaphor-3365.html

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Posted 07/05/09 - 06:44 AM:	#16
Tobias, I've been thinking about it and I find that chess can be seen as an elaborate build-up of an argument. In it, you (those who play chess) may find the logic to see where an argument is going. I'm playing chess, but not more than that. I'll see if I join chess.net, but I'm been thinking, reading, and doing so much stuff lately there hasn't been the time. P.S. Remember Carlsen begins with a C!
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