Checkmate!

[Acriku]

Hey guys, anyone want to play chess? I'm pretty good, not GrandMaster good ;) but is anyone wanting to play?

[jacobdouds]

I will, how over the internet?

[Timenn]

Just say like: A2 to A3 etc... lol, do it with normal mail. Do you know why you can't transfer money in holland lower then the value of E 0.05? (you don't have to pay for transfer mail...) Becuase people were playing chess that way ;D ;D...

[ken124578]

uhh ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? :-X

[gryphon]

Yea, I know. You simply "wire" some money over to the other guy with the message to it that is the move you make, so you don't have to pay for a phonecall or a letter.

I usually play against my Ix terminal, and must admit that after the last upgrade the d*rn'd thing got pretty good all of a sudden ;D

[nampigai]

uhm ken I think it's dutch humor, I'm affraid we have to get use to it, they will conquer the world within the next couple of years I can just feel it ;)

[Acriku]

We can also play chess via IMing! Good idea! Just like email chess, but online! Let's do it! Anyone up for it?

[Terror]

i'm dutch too and i don't understand it either.... though u'r right that we're gonna take over the world.... of course this is a secret cuz nobody may know about this... but yes... we are gonna take over the world  ;)

[Timenn]

Ok I explain:

If you want to transfer money to someone, you can send a piece of paper to the bank. There stands your signature, the amount of money, the recipient's account number, and his/her adress, and also an announcement (like: here is the money you was waiting for about 345 yeat) You can fill in at that announcement: A2 to A3. And you transfer E 0.00 of money. And to send that transfer paper to bank cost nothing, no stamp needed. You see

That's why the minimum amount of money to transfer is E 0.05 :)

Back to chess: I can chess, but not very well...

[Terror]

I can chess to but i am also a newbie. Though i think its fun to play.

Oh and for all the ppl who want to hear more about this "take over the world" thingy. I have a hint. We are going to use a strategy never used before. I have planned it out all by myself :-)

[Lord J]

That sounds awfully boring.  Why don't you guys just, like, email each other?  Don't get me wrong, I love chess, I suck at it, like most games, but I still love it, but this sounds just...wierd.  Very...Dutch.   :D

[Terror]

ok that's it... i'll tell you what my strategy is... we'll just migrate 15 million dutch ppl to belgium so that the dutch people are a majority and belgium becomes dutch... after that we'll take a bigger country and bigger and bigger and bigger until we can even outpopulate china :-)

[ken124578]

uhh... you know that only 16million people live in the Netherlands.

[jacobdouds]

4 million in New Zealand. Small.

[OnAMission]

Is this a chess thread or a "Take over the world" thread.

On the chess. I'm half good but won't playing by e-mail take ages.

I'll leave the rest of you to talk about the taking over the world thing.  ???

[Terror]

yes smartie but if we migrate 16 milion ppl we've got no one left in our country smarty :-)

[Acriku]

On, it shouldn't take ages, but it does take longer than a real life game. It is almost always a good game because you can have time to get a clear head, go to the bathroom, analyze what the computer would do, etc.

[OnAMission]

True. But Soe people like myself have limited time on the net so a drawn out game is not an option.