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Topic: The Rise of Internet Chess!
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The Rise of Internet Chess!
More Cheaters
For the second time in a month a chess master has been accused of cheating. Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria has been accused of cheating by many of his fellow chess players (Nigel Short, Martin Breutigam to name two) Once again Technology seems to have become the scrupulous friend of cheaters playing chess. But thanks to that same technology cheaters are getting caught in unfair play. Software databases and properly applied mathematics, can detect these unfair attempts at pulling the wool over our eyes.
Tech stuff
www.Playchess.com uses this kind of technology but with software you have to download for their site to detect cheaters, and I’m sure more and more sites will use this type or similar software as it is developed into several different platforms like PHP, MySLQ as the need for this kind of software becomes more in demand.
If you read my last article, you will find a spreadsheet on 7 sites that I ask everyone to contribute to. You can find it at www.chessgambits.org
If you Google “play chess online†you will get 2,170,000 hits and “chess†will give you 38,400,000 hits. Only 90,000,000 behind “pokerâ€
Free Chess
But unlike most other games Chess is and has always has been free to play. Despite the fact that chess organizations like the CFC, USCF, and FIDE ask for a rating fee, and Tournament fees, to pay for space and time to calculate the ratings. Internet chess sites that belong to A4C turn based association and many others that do not belong to the group yet, offer everything that chess organizations offer and more for free!
Advantages
There are so many advantages to playing chess online, that it’s becoming popular to the pint that it’s about to explode. You don’t need to drive anywhere, and that’s good for the environment. You don’t need to pay money to play, and that good for the pocket book. You don’t need to travel far to play in big and important tournaments. You don’t need to put up with thieves raiding your hotel room, or your knapsack, or your books. You don’t have to put up with noise, bad lighting, and fatalism. We are albel to play family from a distance as I do with my son.
A recent book publish on the history of chess The Immortal Game and the recent video on the book The Immortal Game Video Clearly shows that Chess is game of the future!
Chess is the only game that truly challenges the mind, it is 100% skill with no chance involved at all, and playing online is not only convenient, but it’s also becoming mobile. As PHPChess is developing a program to integrate their software with cell phones.
The free chess sites will ask for donations, and I’m sure they will get those donations, because people that play chess have every reason in the world to give something for there favourite game. It seems that people that play chess land up playing it forever, because chess all can be very addictive, but an addiction that is good for you.
The future
The future of internet chess holds wonders we have not even begun to image. All the features like Swiss tournaments, round robin knock out rounds, databases, adjourn moves, online IA analyzers, global world internet chess ratings, global user names, just to name a few, are all possible on the internet.
It’s just a matter of time, and long hours of dedicated programming by
those who are willing, and love the game of chess. The participation of users who believe that chess should be free, and those few donations that makes it all happen.
I remember an experiment done in New York City years ago by a teacher that I read about when I was studying socialogy in collage years ago. He took a group of students from the Bronx, and tot them chess. With in six months these same students that were considered failures in society, were all of a sudden doing well in school, self esteem was more evident among the students. They were no longer the misfits that they were labelled with.
Is chess good for kids? Is it good for society? I think so. Like the training the students get in any military school, chess teaches discipline, math, logic, planning, and give you a sense of self esteem. How could it not be good for society?
So next time your on the bus playing chess on your cell phone just remember this is only the beginning. I hope to be on top of a mountain some day, playing a game of chess overlooking the river in a valley with my mini lab top, with not a care the world, well I mite be concerned about any bears around….. J
Stay tuned for my next article on Gothic Girl who has played over 17,000 games of chess.
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Thanks to the likes of Miguel who design chess websites and offers it for free. Chess is never he same again.
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