Author: Glen Pawley
Date: 00:35:26 08/13/05
This might not be the height of Internet etiquette, but I hope it's sufficiently interesting to offset the sin of plugging something on a messageboard. I initially started [URL=http://www.aqanasia.com/chessturn]this[/URL] as an exercise in the technologies involved, but I liked it enough to finish it and now I want to see if the idea is sufficiently interesting to other people. Basically it's a turn-based chess playing site, ie. instead of playing face-to-face, you play the next move in a series of games and you can come back to those games a day later. But what makes it different is that while you can play normal complete games, the system is set up so that by default you can make the next move in random games - the whole point being that by continually having to analyze different positions from actual games you improve your game faster, and it's kind of an interesting challenge. You're rated depending on your performance, so that you get to play next moves in games that are being similarly played by players of your level. I'm also using the chess variant [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_Random_Chess]Fischer Random (Chess960)[/URL] (optional) which basically randomizes somewhat the initial position of the pieces on the back rank so that memorization of opening moves goes out of the window and it boils down to positional analysis and playing ability right off the bat. Or you can play complete games of Fischer Random as well if you want. Check it out and tell me what you think.
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