I don't even know whether this should go under "Card & Board Games," "Gamer Connection," "Forum Games," or what.
Anyway, I was toying with the idea of playing Chess with some other user over these forums, using Golarion-related images as pieces. I would post links to an image of the board, like this...
...and the other player could post his/her move, with a message like "Knight from B1 to C3," and I would make my move, and change the board image accordingly.
In case there's any confusion about which image is what piece, I could provide a key.
My first question is: Does anyone have suggestions for images to use for pieces? Some of those images have nothing to do with Golarion, and I'm sure someone could come up with better ideas.
My second question is: Would anyone actually be interested in PLAYING such a game?
(What can I say? I'm no longer in a position to play PBPs, and I always fantasized being the "tactical map keeper." This comes close, at least.)
First thing I'd like to say is that I immediately thought of using goblins as pawns. +1 for that idea. I'd expand the knights to goblins [i]mounted[/o] on goblin dogs, but that's it.
Instead of the Centaur minis as knights, what about using the Iconic Cavalier? Valeros would make a "good" king, since his class is considered the DPR King.
I'd play!
(USCF ~ 2000)
Great!
(Incidentally, I know nothing about the USCF, but I take it this means you're good at the game. I, myself, am not, but I'd like to play all the same.)
I would label the two sides "human" and "goblin" (even though not all the pieces truly fall into those two categories.) Assuming that the "human" player goes first, which side would you want to play?
If you don't decide, we could just use paizo.com's die-roller to determine that.
(USCF ~ 2000)
Wow.
IIRC, USCF 2000 is roughly a rank A player, bordering on the ranking for international master.
Grandmasters are 2500ish and the world's best are ~2700.
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2 d2-d4
0-1800: classes E through B
1800-2000: class A
2000-2200: expert
2200-2350: master
2350-2500: international master
2500-2700: international grandmaster
2700+: super grandmaster
So you say "~ 2000". I assume the "~" means "approximately." Is it more, or less, than 2000?
Anyway, 2...g8-f6
Very impressive. If I played, I'm sure I'd fall well below average (which, I heard, was about 1400.)
Yes, we 99% who aren't even serious enough to participate in the USCF in the first place. But I can still play for fun. I enjoy Chess, even when I lose.
(EDIT: I looked up the notation, and changed the 0s to Os.)
(And incidentally, I just noticed "blindfolded chess" in your profile. I'm deeply impressed. I find it hard to believe that such a thing is possible, although I just read in the wikipedia "Blindfold chess was considered miraculous for centuries, but it is now accepted that any strong player today can play blindfolded, and many can keep track of more than one simultaneous blindfolded game.")
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Yeah, blindfold chess is really just a question of practice. I had a data center job back in the mid 90s where my whole job function was to run batch mainframe jobs for people, and spool their output to big honking printers, and then bag and tag the output and put them in little cubby holes for the users to print out. It was deadly dull work, which I offset by playing chess on the old free internet chess server. Unfortunately, my boss decided that playing chess on the job was bad form, so instead of not playing chess anymore, I switched over to using the text version fics, where you type in the moves and all you see is a textual list of the moves on the screen (somewhat similar to what we're seeing in this thread!). After a couple of years of doing this I got pretty good at it, and from 1996 to present I have played about one "blindfold" game a month to keep the skill oiled. It's mostly a parlor trick, akin to learning a foreign language or using tricks to do quick add/mult/divide operations without a calculator.
It does, however, let me recognize without looking at the Golarion board that 17 ... Bd7-e5 is an illegal move, and guess that you meant f5 instead.
And looking at the board I see that is true!
18 Rf1-e1
Ah yes.
Crumb. That's my second mistake today. I'm sorry. I have got to be more careful.
Okay, here goes...
Okay, I think I got it right this time.