Draughts/Checkers

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:16 pm

Inspired by my recent chess triumphs, I've been inspired to seek out an online draughts/checkers game - and I have found one. Excited

https://cardgames.io/checkers/

Except I'm rubbish at it. I'm so used to playing chess that I can't remember how to even play draughts anymore. It keeps murdering me. rant

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:17 pm

This thread is where we can discuss the game that's now proven to be harder than chess.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:33 pm

I've just lost again! Why is it so difficult? killcomputer

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:38 pm

Despite being brilliant with my hands and being beyond brainy I am almost universally terrible at board games of any sort.

Chess, draughts, backgammon, you name it.

Cards.

Video games too.

And I'm really sh*t at sports.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:40 pm

I wasn't all that good at RPGs either.

I was very very good as a DM or a Keeper (of Arcane Lore), because it involved writing my own stories/scenarios and 'telling' them in weird and wonderful ways, but as a player...

Not so much.

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:41 pm

Is draughts the one that old men, fingering their worry beads between turns, used to play outside pubs?

by Guest Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:43 pm

Isn't that dominos?

dunno

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:44 pm

Eh?

Draughts is played on a chess board with flat discs of white and black.

It's like chess for idiots.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:45 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:Isn't that domino's?

Dominoes is what old black gents play and smash the table in half when they slam down the winning donimo.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:46 pm

I seem to recall some people getting murdered in Harlesden over a game of dominoes a decade or so ago. sad yes

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:50 pm

Nightjar wrote:Despite being brilliant with my hands and being beyond brainy I am almost universally terrible at board games of any sort.

Chess, draughts, backgammon, you name it.

Cards.

Video games too.

And I'm really sh*t at sports.

I'm the opposite. Despite having next to no interest, I almost always win. I even came second (out of a couple of hundred) in a compulsory cross country race, despite stopping to have a fag and a rest on a bench at roughly the halfway point. I think that remains my proudest physical achievement.

In the opinion of others, I'm also a natural in defence positions in hockey and football. I put that down to my overwhelming feelings of absolute rage that anyone should attempt to take advantage of me - amplified if they have the nerve to do so literally in front of me. I've never really seen the point of team sports.

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:52 pm

Maybe it is dominos. I wonder where my antique Indian ivory dominos are. They were very beautiful. A reverse of the usual black with white dots.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:54 pm

cosmictanya wrote:I'm the opposite.

So, you're saying that you're an ham-fisted thicko? hmn

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:03 pm

Exactly. I think the greatest curse of my life has been the need to develop unnatural abilities and a reserve of cynicism. I'd be so much happier as the thick optimist I know myself to be at heart.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:13 pm

But surely that's why you went to Bristol? hmm

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:18 pm

I went because I like the city, and its close to my beloved Bath. They both have such gentle atmospheres and lovely honey buildings.

~~It also had a very high percentage of privately educated people so I presumed a lucrative divorce would be easy enough to achieve.~~

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:20 pm

I was always under the impression that Brizzle and various art schools were where ladies of a certain intellectual capacity went.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:22 pm

Or, all the really poshest universities.

Studying History of Art or Classics.

by Nightjar Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:23 pm

Graduation day is like the latter-day version of the debutant's c*ming out ceremony.

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:35 pm

Oh the Oxbridge failures you mean. I didn't consider them, and due to my (vindicated) belief that GCSE's and mock exams were a waste of energy and only worth getting up for if it wasn't raining, I doubt they'd have been impressed with my attitude anyway.

Had I been applying this year, I'd have been absolutely f***ed if I was reliant on past performance prediction. I might've had to go to Luton or something.

Far better to concentrate on the actual exams and then off to explore the Middle East and it's pre 9/11 delights, courtesy of the cash a friend left me when she died. I applied during that year. They were confused when I matriculated because I'd somehow entered the UCAS code for being Afro Caribbean.

I miss the little flat in Rome I had for a few months on the way back, near Termini station, overlooking a back courtyard, just across from a very noisy domestic violence household. I spent the first night there in tears, exhausted and sleepless. Then I loved it completely and have never stopped.

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