Chess.com after 3 weeks....?
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ah, i see. no, i think what he is talking about is en passant ;)
It's possible, of course, but en passant also captures diagonally (and I presume that people know about en passant and wouldn't be puzzled by it)
i wouldn't presume that :) i
Erik,
Way to go. I am impressed with this site. I used to play competitive chess in my teens... which is out 25 years ago! I like the concept of sharing views and knowledge... that is exactly what this site offers. Keep it up!
"I used to play competitive chess."
That brings a question to my mind.. Is there such a thing as non-competitive chess?
There's problem solving, of course; there are endgame studies; there are annotations... but such things relate to chess without actually being chess. In order for chess to be Chess, must it be competitive?
If so, that brings up another question. If chess is, by definition, competitive, how much of winning depends on a player's competitve nature and how much depends on his chess knowledge? Many people well versed in theory and tactics can't maintain throughout a stressful game and sometimes lose, not because of their inability to understand a position or to find a good move, but because of their own inertia and inability to bring forth the necessary effort at a critical time.
I think it's definitely 50/50. It doesn't matter how competitive you are if you don't have a sound knowledge of the game. Being super-competitive without knowledge would probably just lead to the player initiating many forceful attacks that never accomplish their goal. But, if you simply lose the will to fight the second your opponent plays an unexpected move, you may as well be finished even if you're knowledge is superior. So I really think it requires an equal amount of knowledge and competitive drive.
I'd also like to mention that I've encountered no bugs in the chess game here. I have to assume the guy was a little confused by en passant captures.
I was asking for member Claudio.
According to Claudio (let me interpret) - "The times I am playing and the laborer adversary catches my straight-line laborer (sometimes when I'm playing [the computer program here], my opponent's pawn will capture my pawn which is on the same file), the correct one is the laborer to eat in the diagonal line, as all know, (whereas pawns should capture diagonally, as we all know) but does not have problems, can be some problem of software. (can that be some software problem?)