do you like them? what is your favorite? i like chess and checkers alright, chess a little better, but i find them both generally boring. checkers is too simple. with chess its not that its not challenging enough, i just find it to be less fun than many other games. i really enjoy backgammon, and find it to be a very enjoyable game. it's the perfect blend of skill and chance, as you have to devise strategy yet the element of rolling the dice means even the best strategists may lose just due to plain bad luck. i got a really nice all-wooden backgammon set for christmas, and have had a lot of fun with it. i want to learn how betting works with backgammon and such, even though i'd very rarely be tempted to gamble on it. i also recently dropped 30 bucks to buy myself a decent go board, which i'm really happy about. its nothing special, and the "standard" 19x19 size. the stones are pretty low quality, and it didnt come with bowls for the stones, but it certainly is nice enough for a beginner's set. i'm quite fond of gomoku, a game using go stones and a go board with a much simpler concept than go - it essentially is a more elegant and complex variation on tic-tac-toe, requiring 5 stones in a rows on a much larger playing field. if the two players are evenly matched in skill, a gomoku game can last a long time and fill up the vast bulk of the board. as i am fascinated by go and the concepts behind it, i believe it would be a waste not to learn to play a proper game of go, as well, and i am starting to learn how to play, as is my mother. i think i have the bulk of the basics down right now, though i've not played a game to completion without a computer program, today i took a long time and played most of a game with my mother. upon looking at the rules again there are some things we were doing wrong, and our strategies were poor. but i'm learning, and i know more about it at the end of the day today than i did yesterday. gomoku is much simpler and good for a fun, laid back, often quicker game than go; but go is far more intricate, elegant, and overall the better game. i find it far superior to chess. i'm glad i spent the money, even if it is a little pricey for what it is. when i get to be a full time student at a good university i hope to find a go club or something so i can find a variety of people to help me learn more about it and to have someone to play against.
I love a whole lot of them... from backgammon to risk. But... chess is by far my favourite, I've been playing it practically since I was born. It's an amazing and beautiful game. A million variations, and probably the most intellectual game on the phase of this earth. You have to think many moves ahead, and you have to play both your and your rival's games. It's pure genius. (and I haven't lost in it since freshman year in college... when I lost to the director of the Honors College, so I don't feel too bad about that one).
Eh, Chess is all about memorizing the opening. Chess 960 or whatevers fun. Needs some clothes off though.
risk is good, i like it. stratego is cool, too. i like chess alright, but its by no means my favorite and i find it pales in comparison to go with the elegance and strategy, though i will admit to being very inexperienced in go and only moderately experienced with chess. i think the two are very similar in their difficulty, elegance, intricacies and the need for very strategic thinking. however there are so many differences that while they're often held in similar esteem by their players, they aren't really fair to compare. one of the things about go i like better than chess is starting with a blank board and building your territory. chess focuses around a single all-important piece. while various pieces are more or less expendable based on their abilities and opportunities, the king is the only piece that REALLY matters more than any other. all the pieces exist solely to serve and protect one particular piece. on the other hand in the game of go a single piece is virtually worthless and only really matters when it's in a group with other pieces. the object has little to do with individual stones and everything to do with capturing territory - the individuals work for the whole, rather than for one single piece. i cannot argue that chess is elegant, intricate, intelligent, challenging, and intellectually stimulating. it's a masterpiece in the world of games. i just find go more compelling and intriguing, and an equal to chess in virtually every way, even if its very, very different to play. i'm also rather fond of scrabble.
Ugh, I was playing against this scrabble ringer. He was using a bunch of two letter words he didn't even know what they meant. But apparently according to the rules, you don't have to know the definition. Try Chess 960. http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/Fischer_Random_Chess.html
yeah, you dont need to know the definitions of the words in scrabble, you just need to be able to spell them and know they are words that are within the parameters of legal words to play in the game. there are a number of odd but good words that i know that i can never remember the difinitions for, including a few of the q-without-u words, and some good two-letter ones every once in a while.
Chess is King I still remember being glued to my chair back in 1997, when PBS assembled a panel of grandmasters to disseminate and breakdown move by move, Deep Blue’s defeat of world champion Garry Kasparov h
I like board games for the social aspect of them, so Scrabble is always nice because you don't have to put too much thought into it and can get up to pour some more wine without losing track of what's going on. Games like Pictionary and Trivial Pursuit also good if you have the right people to play with, but when people get really competitive with silly games like that it kind of ruins it. Twister is also fun but not with family. Strategy games I like better on the computer, my favourite is Othello. I'm learning Chess on the Atari but apparently I'm not very good at it, I've only won 3 games out of what must be 100 by now. Can't find the children's setting.
I love the simplicity and Zen-like nature of Go, but you cannot possibly compare it to Chess. I can systematically beat anyone at Go just by following the same very basic moves, just like I can tie anyone in Tic-Tac-Toe. In Go you have a couple of possible moves every turn, while in chess you have millions, and so does your opponent. Puting the two in the same league is ridiculous. It's very difficult to memorize millions of potential openings.
i pretty much only use them for drinking games. i haven't played a board game otherwise in years. not that i don't enjoy them, it just never seems to come up. i prefer games that are won by skill rather than luck, but i never really got into any board games enough to name favorites.
I like Scrabble, chess, Pictionary is fun...we have Pictionary Jr. and play it with the kids, it's a riot.
