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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
Posts : 149284 Karma : 1198 Join date : 2018-05-02
| Subject: Draughts/Checkers 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. 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. _________________ |
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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
Posts : 149284 Karma : 1198 Join date : 2018-05-02
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. _________________ |
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The Call of the Wendigo Admin
Posts : 149284 Karma : 1198 Join date : 2018-05-02
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:33 pm | |
| I've just lost again! Why is it so difficult? _________________ |
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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.
_________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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cosmictanya
Posts : 5838 Karma : 234 Join date : 2019-08-14
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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? |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:43 pm | |
| Isn't that dominos?
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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cosmictanya
Posts : 5838 Karma : 234 Join date : 2019-08-14
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. |
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cosmictanya
Posts : 5838 Karma : 234 Join date : 2019-08-14
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. |
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:54 pm | |
| - cosmictanya wrote:
- I'm the opposite.
So, you're saying that you're an ham-fisted thicko? _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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cosmictanya
Posts : 5838 Karma : 234 Join date : 2019-08-14
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. |
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:13 pm | |
| But surely that's why you went to Bristol? _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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cosmictanya
Posts : 5838 Karma : 234 Join date : 2019-08-14
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. |
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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. _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:22 pm | |
| Or, all the really poshest universities.
Studying History of Art or Classics. _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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Nightjar
Posts : 113155 Karma : 921 Join date : 2018-05-05
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:23 pm | |
| Graduation day is like the latter-day version of the debutant's c*ming out ceremony. _________________ Ibble obble black bobble, ibble obble out!
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cosmictanya
Posts : 5838 Karma : 234 Join date : 2019-08-14
| Subject: Re: Draughts/Checkers 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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