Topic: Facebook ads

[Ghandi]

While playing chess on facebook I got this ad:



It really discouraged me.

[Pugnate]

haha that's insane...

The advertising is localized. I keep getting advertising of "sexy" bollywood starlets.

[Ghandi]

Some of the advertisements are based off your profile. If you are single you will get ads to meet people. If you change your status to just having broken up, ads will pop up about dealing with it, etc.

But why would they think that I'm stupid?

Edit: Please don't reply to that question.

[Cobra951]

Uh, what's up with that opening?  I'm all for control of the center, but that's carnage waiting to happen, and too early.

[Ghandi]

It sounds like you want a piece of the action. Do you have a Facebook account?

Also, yeah, carnage did happen. It was total madness.

[Pugnate]

Hey are you on facebook Cobra?

[scottws]

I'm horrible at chess.  I know how all the pieces move and all that, but I just do not understand the strategy of the game.

[Ghandi]

I'm pretty bad too. I can develop strategies but they are all short term and leave me in bad positions in the long run. But the best way to get better is to play. And to let Pug constantly beat you.

[scottws]

Well that's the thing.  I find chess extremely boring.  Honestly I don't see myself playing another game ever for the rest of my life.

[iPPi]

Hilarious ad, and very interesting start for chess. 

[Quemaqua]

That's a pretty standard opening, isn't it?  I forget the name, but I have a book around somewhere.  Wish I knew where it was.  I used to open that way frequently when I was younger, and I was actually pretty good back then.

I suck ass now, though.  I sincerely miss the game.  I really loved it and I just couldn't keep going because there were so few opportunities to play.  I tried with my school, but my school was weird and small and it didn't really work.  The umbrella group that ran it had big conventions and stuff where there was chess and athletic competitions and what have you, but my school was too crap to really participate.

[Cobra951]

It probably started out very routinely, but those 4 pawns facing each other in the center without solid protection is not a good thing.

I'm way out of practice on chess.  My grandfather was a big player in Puerto Rico, and he gave me a book on openings, which I promptly passed on to my best friend, who was a lot more into the game.  His game improved so much because of that damn book that I could not play him anymore.  He'd whip my butt every time.  He went on to become an A-rated player, which is 2 grades down from grandmaster.  Don't think he made it to master before marriage made a slave of him until this very day.

[Pugnate]

It probably started out very routinely, but those 4 pawns facing each other in the center without solid protection is not a good thing.

Yea the knights are supposed to be out simultaneously in support. To be honest, we played each other six times in a row and after the exact same moves, we got bored.

Normally if I am white, I'll move out my king's pawn first two steps. Then Ghandi will do the exact same to prevent me from going further. Then I'll bring out my knight to attack the pawn blocking mine, which will force Ghandi to do bring out his knight to protect his pawn. Next I'll move my queen's knight two spaces ahead, and so on.

I think here we both decided to do a touch bit differently.

I moved my king's pawn ahead two spaces, after which he did as well. Instead of attacking it with a knight, or bringing out the other knight in a supporting role, I just went ahead and moved my queen's pawn two spaces.

This wasn't a good idea on my part, but I was just trying to do something different.

It wasn't a good idea, because while my queen's pawn was under protection, it was under the protection of an extremely heavy weight.

Ghandi's correct move would have been to take my queen's pawn with his long pawn out there.

Had he done so, I would have been forced to take it with my queen. All he would have had to done at that stage is bring out his knight to attack my queen's position and force her back to where she came from. Basically that would have meant that I had a move wasted, while his move was spent developing his knight forward.

[idolminds]

I just make random moves until I lose.

[Ghandi]

Let me sum up Pugs post: If Ghandi didn't suck so much, I might not use sub-par strategies.