SE Chess

Seth

7:01 PM

That's a classic @J.Musser, I'm surprised he didn't know it :)

Prediction: @Undo's game will end in a draw.

J. Musser

@Seth my last one?

Seth

@J.Musser The mate in 4 one.

J. Musser

@Seth oh, haha

I was suprised also...

My last one I won on time, but I had a near checkmate

Seth

I got caught by that maybe twice.. and then I got super paranoid any time someone played anything close to it lol.

J. Musser

@Seth haha

o noes @Seth Now you're way ahead :o

Seth

7:05 PM

Your move ;)

J. Musser

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1094875626

ProgramFOX

I've got to go for today. @Mooseman We can continue our game during the next days.

J. Musser

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1094875626

yay, being creamed by someone with way more points is fun...

Seth

7:26 PM

man, I just realized something way better I could have done against you @J.Musser but it's too late now :(

lol

J. Musser

7:36 PM

@Seth Oh no, you're already winning :/

Seth

@J.Musser Define winning.. There's no winning a chess game until it's won :D

Undo

@Seth well sometimes you can tell :P

Seth

True

but I don't think that's where our game is at yet :)

J. Musser

@Seth uh, look at the piece count...

Seth

I have 1 rook and 1 pawn, you have 2 pawns :P

Undo

7:44 PM

link?

Seth

wait

how did I miss that @J.Musser?

@Undo chess.com/echess/game?id=107657802&alert=1

J. Musser

@Undo chess.com/echess/game?id=107657802

hey, you get 2

whoops I did NOT mean to put that there...

Seth

I wish you hadn't lol

J. Musser

uh, why?

Undo

@J.Musser because check

Seth

7:51 PM

puts me in a bad position :(

J. Musser

but you can easily get out...

Seth

not exactly.

We can analyse it after the game though :P

Analysing is so much fun :D

J. Musser

@Seth I wonder where you will move

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1094875626

Seth

I'm not sure..

J. Musser

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1094945701

Mooseman

8:05 PM

@J.Musser Are you up for a live game? (After your current one)

Seth

ugh, chess.com keeps crashing by browser.

Mooseman

@Seth What browser?

Seth

FF 36.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 AMD64

Mooseman

@Seth Why not Chrome?

J. Musser

@Mooseman how?

you mean online chess?

Mooseman

8:14 PM

@J.Musser i tried to send a challenge in live chess

J. Musser

livechess =! online chess

Seth

@Mooseman Why not Firefox?

Mooseman

@Seth Because chess.com in Chrome on Ubuntu works ;)

Seth

If chess.com doesn't work in Firefox it isn't the browser's fault, it's the site's fault ;)

Mooseman

Lack of proper testing and/or adhering to standards, yes. But it's not my site to fix. :/

Just like old sites for which I must use IE6 in a VM.

@J.Musser chess.com/echess/view_game_seek?id=68745444

nvm live chess; my internet's unreliable today anyways

J. Musser

8:35 PM

@Mooseman live.chess.com/ vs. chess.com/echess/

(my computer just restarted and did updates - sorry for the delay)

Mooseman

np; i'll try live again

challenge sent

Seth

ok, moved.

Undo

You... have a name tag in your trophy case? :P

Seth

8:50 PM

wait wat

hey, we should all try vote chess sometime.

That would be fun

Undo

what's that?

Seth

We get a team and everyone votes for the next move :D

Undo

ooooh

sounds like it'd take millenia :P

Mooseman

^^ yup

J. Musser

me and Mooseman

and again

Seth

9:13 PM

chess.com crashed me again..

Wait.. how did I not see that o_O

J. Musser

@Seth see what?

Seth

YOLO

@J.Musser chess.com/echess/game?id=107668264

J. Musser

eh

Mooseman

@J.Musser gg gg gg gg gg

'till next time

cya

J. Musser

cya!

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1095020334

Seth

9:27 PM

oh bother. I knew he could put me in check but I didn't see the fork until too late.

Undo

>:D

J. Musser

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1095028304

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1095028907

J. Musser

9:48 PM

aha! @Seth

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1095028907

Seth

crashed me again..

Undo

@Seth I haven't been having any issues with it in Chrome

Seth

well I won't be switching to Chrome just to play chess on this one site :/

(in the long run)

Undo

is it just eating all the memory or what?

Seth

that's what I'm trying to figure out.. but I have 16GB of RAM so it shouldn't be eating all the memory.

J. Musser

9:56 PM

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1095046937

Seth

hm, no RAM spikes.

Undo

@Seth yeah, it's working fine here on 8

Their iOS app is pretty darn good

Seth

it's funny because it also seems to crash my network at times too. Very weird.

J. Musser

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1095056594

live.chess.com/live?v=2015022001#g=1095057985

Undo

ooooh @Doorknob's back

Doorknob

10:15 PM

Yep, playing chess from the airport while waiting for bags :P

J. Musser

@Doorknob have a good flight?

Mooseman

@Undo Are you ever not online? xD

Undo

@Mooseman well I have my machine open like all the time, so it probably looks like I always am :)

Mooseman

@Undo Does Smokey play chess?

Undo

I... don't think so

You should ask him

J. Musser

10:18 PM

Aha @Mooseman

Aha @Seth

Doorknob

@J.Musser Yep, thanks :) The first 10 minutes of it were spent figuring out what moves I wanted to make against Undo

J. Musser

@Doorknob hahaha!

Mooseman

@J.Musser D'OH

J. Musser

see anything cool?

@Doorknob?

Seth

hehe, you have the same trophy I do @Undo ;)

Undo

10:19 PM

lol

Doorknob

@J.Musser You mean during the flight?

Undo

Either (a) they fly way too high to see anything, or (b) they fly low enough that you can see stuff, but it's always just a bunch of sagebrush :P

Doorknob

/me did not expect @Undo to do that

Undo

@Doorknob My thought is that if I can simplify things down to just kings and bishops, I might have a shot at it

Mooseman

@Undo has way to many tricks up his sleeve :p

Doorknob

10:27 PM

@Undo You're going to have a hard time stopping two pawns with a single king

Undo

@Doorknob I... know :P

Urrr draw?

Doorknob

I want to see if I can win this >:D

(I couldn't accept anyway because mobile)

grr I gave @Mooseman a free rook.

Seth

I think you can do draws @Doorknob.

J. Musser

@Doorknob yep

Seth

At least you can offer them on mobile..

Mooseman

10:30 PM

Not really free once you at my bishop :p

Undo

It was at a discount

Doorknob

@J.Musser Considering 95% of the view is clouds, no. :P

Undo

I've got to go now, be back in a short while >:D

J. Musser

@Doorknob snow clouds where you were?

Doorknob

No, just... clouds

Doorknob

10:50 PM

@Undo is stalling... yet his demise is inevitable ;)

Undo

DON'T TALK ABOUT IT >:(

I like my denial

Doorknob

lol

Undo

drat

:(

totally winnable

in fact, I'm so convinced that I can win that I would be merciful and agree to a draw

it's so close to a stalemate, too :(

Doorknob

If it would have been a stalemate, I always could have stalled by moving the bishop around :P

Undo

true :P

J. Musser

11:00 PM

@seth your profile is obsolete. Vi and Vim is in beta :P

Doorknob

argh I am having an annoyingly long time figuring out how to win this without stalemating

Undo

has a glimmer of hope

Doorknob

There, got it :P

Undo

:(

Doorknob

> KeyboardFire wins by Checkmate

Undo

11:04 PM

@Doorknob Good game!

J. Musser

@Doorknob \o/

Doorknob

Hey, that was an awesome game. :D

Undo

Wait, who's this KeyboardFire guy?

10

Must not be the real Doorknob

Doorknob

Haha, I guess he's my evil twin. Oh well, I'll have to play you again so I can really win :P

J. Musser

uh, you did

Undo

11:06 PM

^ dat

but I'd go for 2/3

>:D

J. Musser

this is getting intense

Doorknob

It's on :D (I'm going to wait until I get home to start our second game though)

Undo

I'm going to be at a dinner thing

and tomorrow I'll be at code camp

but I guess there aren't any rules that say no chess at code camp

Doorknob

Well, I presume it would be called chess camp then? :P

I wish I could go to a code camp

Undo

Texas has to have something

You should have snuck off and got on a plane coming here.

actually that's probably a bad idea

yeah, almost certainly a bad idea

Doorknob

11:15 PM

"probably"

hahaha

I feel like this is something that Beret Guy from xkcd would do.

Probably to buy some scones

Undo

we do have a bakery

You could cut the brim off your diamond hat, then it would look something like a beret

Doorknob

But that would ruin my diamond hat :(

Undo

oh, right :(

huh, there's a bird outside my window

maybe I should tell him that the berries on that bush are poisonous.

Doorknob

Can dogs and birds communicate?

Undo

yeah, I've seen other dogs communicate things to birds quite clearly

say @Doorknob gonna run in the next SO mod election?

Doorknob

11:20 PM

I don't think so. I haven't been super active there for a while, and PPCG+Puzzling(+maybe Vim) is plenty to look after already

Undo

ah

Doorknob

What about you? (if so, you definitely have my vote :D)

Undo

well maybe

Doorknob

Actually, it's possible that there's not even going to be an election this year

Seth

I was wondering about that.

Undo

11:22 PM

remember we're not in TL

Doorknob

suddenly, @Seth

Yeah, I've seen a few CMs mention that it's possible there'll be no election on meta.SO.

Undo

oh. Well they do that every year

Seth

@Doorknob :D

gah

browser crashed again.

Undo

I'm out for a couple hours, cya folks!

J. Musser

@Seth :( you have a terrible browser

Seth

11:31 PM

@Undo laterz!

@J.Musser nah, they have a terrible site ;)

J. Musser

@Seth Not bothering my end...

Doorknob

yay I'm home! \o/

Seth

granted, it could be a bug in FF but I don't find that likely compared to being a bug in their site.. I dunno.

J. Musser

@Seth Firefox stinks.

Seth

heh.

J. Musser

11:34 PM

@Seth mate in 2

Seth

meaning?

J. Musser

@Seth meaning I win

Seth

that's what I figured.

Doorknob

So @Seth, are you going to join us in our chess shenanigans as well? :)

Seth

@Doorknob Already lost to @J.Musser and am losing to @Undo :P

J. Musser

11:37 PM

@Seth good game though. :P

Seth

@J.Musser Yes, good game! I bunched myself up pretty badly at the end there lol.

I was like "great, now what"

Doorknob

@Seth In that case, you are now one of us!

Feeds

Doorknob has added Seth to the list of this room's owners.

Seth

@Doorknob o_O

J. Musser

haha, most of us seem to be mods...

Doorknob

11:38 PM

you will be assimilated

J. Musser

maybe mods like chess best?

Doorknob

Probably just because lots of mods hang out in the Tavern and that's where this whole thing started. :P

Seth

yep

Doorknob

Now I'm wondering whether there's a connection between being a mod and playing chess...

Seth

nahh

there's a whole site full of non mod chess enthusiasts ;P

J. Musser

11:40 PM

Here's the message that started it yesterday

Doorknob

@Seth What's your chess.com username?

never mind, found it.

I've added you to members.txt on the Github repo and updated the PGNs. Have to go for a bit now

J. Musser

\o

Seth

later @Doorknob!

J. Musser

Why is the SE chatbot user #-2? and there's no -1?

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