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A funny thing to do to any of your friends who are better than you is to play remotely. Get the smartest pc chess game you can find. Let your friend have the first move. Enter his moves into the game and you do to him whatever the pc does to you. He'll figure out eventually but likely not until he's lost some sleep over it.

Hope that made sense

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That's just plain evil. I love it.

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It's dishonest as shit, but it's funny. I'm friends with an older guy who's a real life genius rocket surgeon type. He did it in the early 2000s to a no longer with us friend of his from college. US master.

The way he explained it they were playing with their own boards in different states by instant messenger. He said his phone rang after the 2nd game. Dude knew he was getting fucked somehow.

That's where I got the idea.

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I'm gonna suggest playing with my nephew this way. I owe the little bastard (he's not so little anymore) for beating me so easily.

That's where I got the idea.

Literally millions of people did this already, you didn't invent it..

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I taught my nephew to play when he was 7 or 8. Within no time he was beating me nine times out of ten. It's great to see someone pick up the game and take to it so well.

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I wish I started playing earlier. It translates to real life directly.

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I wish I played more often. I'm going to go download a chess app for my tablet! Thanks for the inspiration.

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Aw man you're about to have a blast.

Check out the climbing the chess ladder series for some ridiculously gentle and efficient direction on how to think at different levels.

The app is great. The lessons are great. The puzzles are useful.

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Seriously up until the 1200 rating level it is a pure adventure. Then it's work. You learn so much in that first year I dont think anything compares.

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i disagree that "chess is the best game on the planet". analytical / left-brained people like chess. some people are right-brained, and like abstract stuff.

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Recommended site / program?

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Try some apps that have hints option available.

Get chess.com, lichess, maybe a simpler one and see where are liking the format.

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pm if you want to play an online match

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I would have to make a new profile. Where should we play and wait what rating are you? I'm only a 1350

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I use lichess for realtime and redhotpawn.com for correspondence. I'm between 1500 and 1800 depending on site and game speed.

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Lichess. I just created bataclantheride. Will play a game to establish a rating

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Wow man lichess has a real beauty about it. I beat a 1550 very badly so they rated me an 1800. That's crazy.