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 Topic: Chess Thingy

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  • Chess Thingy
     OP - December 22, 2009, 12:01 AM
    Hi all,

    I see there is a Chess Thingy :-)

    I love chess...but not very good at it.

    So who is average player round here that I can play with....and how do you play this chess Thingy here.

    Is time based?

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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #1 - December 22, 2009, 12:26 AM
    Doesn't seem to be time-based. Allat hasn't made a move in our game since June. Mind you she was winning so this is probably good.  Cheesy

    If you click the challenge link at the upper right of the chess page you can type in anyone's username and they get a PM asking if they'd like a game.
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #2 - December 22, 2009, 12:54 AM
    Quote from: osmanthus on December 22, 2009, 12:26 AM
    Doesn't seem to be time-based. Allat hasn't made a move in our game since June. Mind you she was winning so this is probably good.  Cheesy


     oops

    Oh yeah... umm.. just made a move  grin12
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #3 - December 22, 2009, 05:50 PM
    Cheers.

    But who's average player around here?

    I don't want to challenge a Grand Master on my first game :-0
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #4 - December 23, 2009, 08:01 AM
    I suck and I haven't played in ages. You can beat up on me if you like.
    fuck you
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #5 - December 23, 2009, 09:34 PM
    Chess?  Astaghfirullah!

    Sahih Muslim
    Book 028, Number 5612:

    Buraida reported on the authority of his father that Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: He who played chess is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.


    Malik Muwatta
    Book 52, Number 52.2.7:

    Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that when he found one of his family playing dice he beat him and destroyed the dice.

    Yahya said that he heard Malik say, "There is no good in chess, and he disapproved of it." Yahya said, "I heard him disapprove of playing it and other worthless games. He recited this ayat, 'What is there after the truth except going the wrong way.' " (Sura l0 ayat 32).

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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #6 - December 23, 2009, 09:35 PM
    Having said that, I'm ok at chess but any good player should be able to beat me.
    .
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #7 - December 23, 2009, 09:42 PM
    I never understood why chess was banned? Is it because someday some muslim would have asked Mohammed to play? And then Mohammed would have lost? lol

    Did he not want his followers to be smart?

    Damn, I can't believe I ever quit playing it :( Not that I was ever any good at it haha Cheesy

    From now on, more chess and more texas hold'em!

    Btw, by this logic backgammon should be haram? But this game is extremely popular in the Mid-east?  Huh?
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #8 - December 23, 2009, 09:44 PM
    Mo b& chess?!?

    Fuck, everytime I think I've heard the last ridiculous thing about Mo, there is always something else.
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #9 - December 23, 2009, 09:48 PM
    Quote from: BlackDog on December 23, 2009, 09:42 PM
    I never understood why chess was banned?

    For the same reason laughing, drinking were frowned upon, and the same reason Islam grew to be the 2nd largest wordls religion within a short period of time.  Ibadaat and spreading Gods word is where Islams doctrine (or meme) is focused, not on enjoying yourself.  People forsake this enjoyment because of the empty promise of heaven and fear of hell, and for this reason the vehicle of Islam continued to gather momentum over its early stages.
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #10 - December 23, 2009, 10:26 PM
    Why is it that no ordinary Muslims seem to know about the prohibition on chess?

    Where does the ordinary not-so-very-religious Muslim learn about hadiths? From parents or from hearsay?
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #11 - December 23, 2009, 10:32 PM
    This site has a great collection:

    http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/search.html

    Has also a search function, you can look up chess for example Smiley

    Besides if you are around religious muslims they will let you know the right from wrong. Well, actually more often you will hear what's wrong. I've personally been told that chess is haram, or on the very least should be avoided. Never given a good reason for it though. Islames reason might be it.
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #12 - December 23, 2009, 10:41 PM
    Quote from: Max on December 23, 2009, 10:26 PM
    Why is it that no ordinary Muslims seem to know about the prohibition on chess?

    Where does the ordinary not-so-very-religious Muslim learn about hadiths? From parents or from hearsay?

    both, hearsay & parents, as well as mullahs, family & friends.  Although only the good ones are remembered, they are not going to spread the silly ones - thats why no-one knows about the rest of them.  Thanks to the uncensorable internet, things are about to change...
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #13 - December 23, 2009, 11:08 PM
    I knew about the prohibition of chess before I actually read it in the hadith.  I think my Imam in mosque may have uttered it.  He definitely used to tell us that our trousers should be above our ankles.
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #14 - December 23, 2009, 11:11 PM
    That one has never made sense to me. Why wear trousers above ankles? I always thought it's because back then there was a lot of dirt and mud and you didn't want the end of your trousers to get dirty and drag that dirt into your home.
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #15 - December 23, 2009, 11:11 PM
    Well if your trousers are down around your ankles in public you're likely to get arrested.
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #16 - December 23, 2009, 11:12 PM
    Quote from: BlackDog on December 23, 2009, 10:32 PM

    http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/search.html


    That database is all anyone really needs to become an apostate. No need to go anywhere else at all. If anyone can finish reading those hadiths and still remain a Muslim by the end of it, he's either an idiot or pure evil.
    Quote from: thinkfree on September 28, 2010, 07:58 PM
    Iblis has mad debaterin' skillz. Best not step up unless you're prepared to recieve da pain.

  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #17 - December 23, 2009, 11:14 PM
    Quote from: osmanthus on December 23, 2009, 11:11 PM
    Well if your trousers are down around your ankles in public you're likely to get arrested.


    ROTFL
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #18 - December 29, 2009, 08:35 PM
    Thanks folks for the chess games :-)

    1 win and three losses... ranking 9th :-(

    I know my place now......

    anyone up for a challenge let me know :-)

    because I never give up that easily ;-)
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #19 - December 29, 2009, 10:24 PM
    up for a quick game, I'm a bet rusty but I'ed use the training
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #20 - December 30, 2009, 12:31 AM
    i'm up 4 a challenge, need 2 get my brain functioning again.
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #21 - December 30, 2009, 07:51 AM
    You guys think chess makes a person more intelligent? If so, how? And what kind of intelligence?
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #22 - December 30, 2009, 08:17 AM
    yes

    I'll say graphical analysis, decision tree construction and memory training.
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #23 - December 30, 2009, 05:31 PM
    Well improves your strategic thinking and memory.
    "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves."
  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #24 - December 30, 2009, 05:35 PM
    Improves your time management skills

    After all the time you waste playing it, you need to work out how to finish off the things you were meant to be doing in the short time you have left
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #25 - December 30, 2009, 05:41 PM
    Quote from: IsLame on December 30, 2009, 05:35 PM
    Improves your time management skills

    After all the time you waste playing it, you need to work out how to finish off the things you were meant to be doing in the short time you have left


    Haha ye i should be revising really.
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  • Re: Chess Thingy
     Reply #26 - December 30, 2009, 10:25 PM
    Quote from: BlackDog on December 30, 2009, 07:51 AM
    You guys think chess makes a person more intelligent?


    No. Chess does not make you intelligent.

    Only casual sex and hedonism does that ;-)
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