Chess players

I have experience in coaching, so if anyone needs teaching, I'm here
I have students from Trinidad and Tobago all the way to Siberia
here is also my Facebook page of the club that I run
https://www.facebook.com/share/18vYwgL7VZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Thanks, but I don't like that 'Mad Queen variation' that people are used to call 'Chess'...
I can rather teach you how to play Ancient Chess, which is the truly original game of Chess, at least 1500 years old! ... I'm joking Blag!
I know you are a talented professional chess player. I love chess, but I have never been really good at it, so yes, perhaps one day I'll ask you to give me some lessons.

i dont like chess, cuz it is not a substitute for international relation/world politcs/etc. This is why i like Risk, it can be basicly seen as a substitute for the mentioned things, ofc only if you play capped or no cards, cuz increasing card turns Risk into an entirely different game.

if you want to learn tactics play Xiangqi (Chinese chess); if you want to learn strategy play Shatranj (ancient chess); if you want to become rich and famous then play internatinal chess, like Blagoje!

all the above mentioned can best be experienced with tic-tac-toe

can you earn money from playing chess online on the international level? wtf, who pays for that?

maybe one day i ll try out some of these chinese chess games, cuz they seems to simulate a real medieval battlefield, so basicly you as a player are a general of an army.

maybe to make it interesting, you could change the number of pieces and/or simply remove some pieces. Elephans seem to be a luxury and could be removed, horses and chariots pieces could be increased, the same is for soldiers. This would make more an intersting gameplay and closer to a real battlefield.


Does anybody know some modern or medieval military tactics/strategy simulators? the graphics are absolutely not important, i would accept (and prefer) simple military-stlye simbols for army units.

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition. Real-time strategy game that is 28 years old and yet has more players now than ever

Chess though is 1500 years old, and similarly has never been more popular... kind of mind-blowing that you can have such a simplistic-looking game that carries so much strategic depth to fascinate people for thousands of years! Chess is a great game, I just wish I was better at it (≈1000elo blitz, chess.com)

So I could say: Settlers of Catan using 36 dice-cards instead of 2 normal dice (in order to reduce the impact of luck). I have also invented a map of Sicily for the Settlers of Catan expansion (with 30 hexagons), but I haven't tryed it out yet... There are many nice games of strategy.

Chess however is different, it is not just a nice game, it's art and science put into a truly violent war game. You can't really play chess for fun, you play chess to win because every defeat hurts! The sport that most resembles chess is boxing, many agree on this.

i play yugioh sometimes, predaplant archetype maostly. i also like ancient gear.

i love AOE 2! and i prefer speed chess.

No way, another AoE2 enjoyer! Without wanting to derail the thread, have you played recently and have you ever tried the ranked ladder?

i haven't played recently, and i am pretty bad at it according to the players at gameranger where i use to play haha. but i even just enjoy it against the computer. i havent played it in a while, but it's definitely my fav game i need to revisit.

In occult and esoteric traditions (like the Golden Dawn or Sufi mysticism), the chessboard is not just a surface but a symbolic map of reality.
​The Board (The Field of Duality): The 64 squares represent the "World of Manifestation," where the dual forces of light and dark (Yin and Yang, or the pillars of Jachin and Boaz) constantly interact. In the I Ching, 64 is the number of cosmic unity and transition.
​The Pieces (Psychological Archetypes):
​The King: The Higher Self or the Spirit. He is vulnerable because the Spirit must be protected by the lower faculties.
​The Queen (Vizier): The Soul or the Will. In early chess, she was weak; her rise to power in the 15th century is often linked to the "cult of the Virgin Mary" and the rise of powerful European queens.
​The Knight: Represents the "Leaps of Intuition." He is the only piece that can bypass obstacles, symbolizing the spirit's ability to transcend linear logic.
​The Pawns: Represent the "Ego" or the common man. Their potential for Promotion is the ultimate esoteric lesson: through discipline and reaching the "other side" (spiritual enlightenment), the lowest can become the highest.
While legends claim it was invented by the Egyptian god Thoth or King Solomon, historians generally agree on a more earthly timeline:
​Chaturanga (~6th Century AD): The earliest ancestor of chess originated in India. It was based on the four divisions of the Indian military: infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots.
​Shatranj (~7th Century AD): The game moved to Persia, where it became "Shatranj." When the Arabs conquered Persia, they spread the game throughout the Islamic world and eventually into Europe.
​Modern Chess (~15th Century): The game we play today (with the powerful Queen and Bishop) was standardized in Southern Europe around 1475.
​Total Age: Roughly 1,500 years in its recognizable forms.