A few months ago, I got an iPhone. The trackball, uncoolness and ringer problems of the Blackberry Bold were simply too frustrating.
Naturally, you end up looking through the App Store to see what’s interesting. There was this “Chess With Friends” app that lets you play…chess with friends.
Unless you are actually playing chess with friends, it’s horrible. Not the app, but the strangers. The majority of random opponents do not bother to finish their games. (And there’s no rating system). The only decent player said the competition sucked and advised me to use chess.com’s app.
So I did. Far better. If you are so inclined, hit me up for an online game, handle LiquidEggProduct. I promise not to cheat.
What does it take to be a pro chess player? Would you have to play chess vs a computer for 8 hours a day?
@Q–“Would you have to play chess vs a computer for 8 hours a day?”
Only if you wanted to drive yourself insane and stick a bishop in your eyeballs.
Supposedly the Korean pro starcraft gamers play for 8 hours a day minimum (they recommend 12 hours). That’s according to the vid Donnie gave us about a Korean celebrity wanting to be a pro gamer. I wonder if you have to do similar things to be a pro chess player.
Becoming a professional requires a full-time job commitment and incredible talent. Pretty much like any the NBA, really. Except basketball stars can get more groupies and shoe endorsements.
The top GMs train with and plan openings with “lesser” GMs (seconds). I don’t know quite everything they go through. They say physical exercise is rather important.
Some dude named Wango is stalking me on chess.com. Creepy!
“Wango” is the handle of Paul Truong, I believe. But he’s also “Jonnyrotten”, “007Guy”, “Petetownshend”, “Marsblackmon”, “Lovemissile”, “Sexybeast”, and “Themeganmccain”. I wouldn’t worry too much unless one of the last two starts stalking you.
Allegedly, Paul Truong and Sam Sloan were making out on a park bench the other day. They must have put that whole lawsuit thing behind them.
Triple 🙂 🙂 😉