It is as if you were playing chess
August 20, 2016 6:23 AM   Subscribe

You’ve always wanted to be a chess master! But you aren’t one! Are you! Now you can at least look like one! Pretend you’re playing chess! Make moves! Act like you feel things! Smirk! Frown! Weep! Chess!
posted by nebulawindphone (8 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
Pretty accurate, but way too long. I usually look like I lose way quicker.
posted by Cookiebastard at 7:24 AM on August 20, 2016 [3 favorites]


This is the archetype of a great inspiration that never found its idea
posted by an animate objects at 7:52 AM on August 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


Looks like this is the classic game Kasparov - Topalov, Wijk aan Zee 1999 where Kasparov sacs a rook.
posted by dfan at 8:50 AM on August 20, 2016 [5 favorites]


I was wondering if there were a real game behind this. I figured at the end it might throw back the curtain to show all the moves you had blindly made and show what positions you were examining with the X LOOK HERE prompts.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 10:42 AM on August 20, 2016 [1 favorite]


reading the source code, the moves are based on a stored game but the "look here" locations are random.
posted by scose at 11:05 AM on August 20, 2016


I won! I lost! I made a horsie go that way! And a castle thing go the other!
posted by dannyboybell at 11:57 AM on August 20, 2016


This is pretty funny but it's far too slow. I always know when my boyfriend is playing chess because the sound of typing and scrolling is replaced by rapid clicking and trash-talking. He plays chess the way other people might play CS or TF2.
posted by phoenixy at 4:29 PM on August 20, 2016


should prompt for a lot more cursing and self loathing muttering.

as a pirc/modern player myself that game stings. poor topalov, must have been rough falling victim to that brilliancy OTB. he is such a beast. wish he would won the sinquefield cup recently, i think he had a promising endgame against aronian in the final game up a pawn and it fizzled out.
posted by forgettable at 5:09 PM on August 20, 2016


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