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Ever play a game against a pro who is constantly giving you gentle advice, trying to nudge you slightly in the direction of marginal improvement? So annoying.
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IT’S A PUCK ADVENT CALENDAR!!!
This December we'll be posting a brand new sketch every day straight to Christmas, so...
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As for this comic...
Ever play a game against a pro who is constantly giving you gentle advice, trying to nudge you slightly in the direction of marginal improvement? So annoying.
You might have to tell her how to think about things. But when is a big question.
Personally, I like the Ruy Lopez opening. Because I ran into it myself. After a few decades.
Thinking about how to think. Deep.
You’re a teacher, you should be all over that. With gravy. And cheese. At least it’s not mayonaise on salad like in Austria. Why Austria? Why?
I like Thousand Island dressing. Which is just mayo with some ketchup and relish thrown in.
No wonder I never liked it.
Still better than Austria.
Chess for rednecks, make the pieces out of candy, chocolate, cake and molded jerkey. The kick, the looser has to eat all of the pawns. They’ve been modeled off of the nasty flavors from the Jelly Belly belly bean mystery game. And varying levels of peppers. From hot, to ghost including the Carolina Reaper.
… I think the geneva convention needs an update.
This doesn’t sound like it’s chess for rednecks. It sounds like it’s chess for Twitch streamers.
Similar concept: shotglass chess.
When you capture a piece, you drain it, to equalize player ability to think.
Such games are rarely concluded.
Hey, I play chess just like Daphne.
I’ve had this exact conversation before: “Do you know how to play chess?” “I know how all the pieces move.”
Hey, that’s all you need.
Daphne: as Shrek once said.. “I’m in Trouble.”
Donkey. Onions. Smash Mouth.
I used to play chess against people who were… adept. Against novices, they seemed good.
My brain works multiple steps ahead, and steps to take to get there.
By the third game I would always deliberately do random moves. I almost typed “stupid” moves, but being unpredictable seeming is sometimes useful against intermediate players.
Most times, I just wanted to drink drinks and NOT test my predictive capabilities.
=Þ
I am not upper tier, but I am exceptionally good at calculated risk. If I TRY, I win against anyone I’ve played 96% of the time. My current win ratio is about 60% becausse “Don’t make me think during fun times!!!”
That is a winning ratio.
I played against my friend’s uncle nicknamed Stretch due his being thin as a rail and 6’3″ and his way about 30-40 years my senior. He liked playing against me because I presented a “challenge”.
Perhaps they should have had a nice friendly game of “murder chess”.
A nice reversal of goals for Hannah and more at Daphnes experience level.
Daphne needs to be on the back foot every once in a while.
Just play it like Poker. I might just be an idiot, but I might have a plan. Since there’s not a land war in Asia and nobody’s betting their life against a Sicilian, this might work.
Also, “Horse to pointy guy 6”.
You are a mad man and a genius.
Kings pawn to d3 is an illegal move. e3 would be legal, though not very good.
Okay, full admission: I really don’t know the whole ‘board alphabetized’ system. I thought that Hannah would use it, so I looked it up at the last second.
Second admission: Upon looking at the board, I realized a problem. The entire board was backwards and completely wrong. I had to fully rearrange the whole thing. I changed it to the ‘E4’ Bobby Fischer classic.
It’s O.K. We’re not grading for a week or two.
Never did get used to the new system of the alphabetic chessboard.
I obviously haven’t either cuz I made an error.
Or was she messing with Daphne’s head?
Yeah, let’s go with that.
NEW? It started to be used in 1737!
Never anywhere I played.
People used to have chess matches by MAIL. In the age of wind-powered ships, horse-drawn carriages, and the like. It sometimes took MONTHS for a pair of moves to be made…
Ah, the good ole days.
Yeah. And it would open with “Pawn to King Four,” none of this “ABC123” coding.
Yeah, new. What did YOU think new meant in the World of Chess?
I was never a fan of chess, all the pieces are visible and you can’t plan surprise attacks. Stratego is more my kind of game.
Never learned Stratego. Looked fun.
I have. You have to be very disciplined ’cause there’s a strong desire to pay an ace when all you need’s a two, as it were.
Looks like someone is a fast learner in the game of chess…
This happens in high levels games of poker also when there is a rookie at the table. Hes a lot harder to read due the fact the rookie dose not have a full grasp what state they are in.
Yep. The best poker face is the one you make when you don’t even know how good your hand is.
I already wondered … would it be violation of rules to not LOOK at what cards you have?
Unorthodox to say the least.
It worked for Skeeve.
Ah! Another Robert Asprin fan.
Ahai, good to see we still exist.
Gentle as a moose, maybe. :squints:
Moose can be surprisingly gentle when they want to be.
I’m somewhere in between these two in skill. Closer to daphne though defninitely
I am reminded of a Beetle Bailey strip. Plato and Zero are playing chess. How? Plato pretends he’s playing Bobby Fischer, and Zero is playing horsies.
And both were the better for it.
This strip makes me fear that Hannah and Daphne will not hit it off quite as well as I hoped. I know …. patience, patience.
Being patient is a hard task for a weekly to handle…
Sorry. I test my own patience often.
Daphne should mirror Hannah’s moves. At least that would make the game more interesting.
Isn’t there a rule against that? I think there is.
If I remember correctly, you can’t recreate a previous board-state.
But it’s still bad advice.
@EG, Aw c’mon, since when does Daphne play by the rules? (And that’s why we love her.) 🙂
Hannah: “Maybe I misspoke. I mean, what’s your strategy here?”
Daphne: “My Stradivarius?”
Hannah: “That’s a violin.”
Daphne: “My stratum?”
Hannah: “Layers of rock.”
Daphne: “My Strathspey?”
Hannah: “A Scottish dance… although kudos for even knowing that one.”
Daphne: “My stratosphere?”
Hannah: “Second layer up of the atmosphere.”
Daphne: “My stratocumulus?”
Hannah: “A cloud formation. You’re just @#$%ing with me, aren’t you?”
Daphne: “Took you long enough. Sure you’re the smart one? I’ve actually got a dictionary open under the table!”
Hannah: “…And why exactly are you bothering to hide it under the table?”
Daphne: “……Dammit. You ARE the smart one.”
If only my scripts could be so long.
Heh. 🙂