# Chess **URL:** \ **Category:** Sports\ **Created:** [September 18, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316 "2018-09-18T05:09:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 63
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1257 "2021-08-14T01:28:34Z")
England is worse at chess than they are at sports. Not only have they never had a world champion. I don’t think they have ever competed for a world championship. I can only name 2 decent players ever. Too much alcohol, perhaps. Now, they are pathetic. Probably the worst of any developed country with a population over 30 million. ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1258 "2021-08-14T01:36:22Z")
Nigel Short and Michael Adams both challenged but never won. That’s two in 30 years. Canada is even worse. It’s been all India and Norway for 10 years. Magnus is playing a Russian for the championship later this year in Dubai between November 24 and December 16. ---
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2021, 10:19am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1259 "2021-08-14T10:19:53Z")
Yes. Canada is worse. I was going back about 140 years. The godless dutch even have a world champ. Adams and Short are the only ones that come to mind for England. ---
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1260 "2021-08-19T21:42:09Z")
> **[Chess Club](https://pollardml.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/chess-club-16/)** > > Want to learn how to play chess or are you an expert who's looking for others who enjoying playing?Join Lowell Chess enthusiasts on the second and fou . No registration required. I could theoretically play chess in person at at a library, cafe, or pizza shop 18 days per month. The pizza shop and cafe do not require masks but the library does. ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 9:49pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1261 "2021-08-19T21:49:32Z")
I thought you moved from Lowell. Or do you still work there? ---
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 10:30pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1262 "2021-08-19T22:30:34Z")
It’s 15 minutes away and on my way home from work. ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 10:37pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1263 "2021-08-19T22:37:35Z")
15 min isn’t even really a different place to me. Sort of like Surrey/Vancouver. ---
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1264 "2021-09-06T18:59:16Z")
![20210906_143852](https://bbad.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c5e577baf57af0716b0ee2adc11e8a2bdc675334.jpeg) ![104593](https://bbad.com/uploads/default/original/2X/b/b37548b1cd83dfbd43b9fc905b7597367baea02b.jpeg) I 3d printed my first piece. Needs a bolt, filler and felt. ---
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1265 "2021-09-06T19:00:19Z")
Probably light sand and something to make it shine (poly)? ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 7:28pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1266 "2021-09-06T19:28:28Z")
Will would know but he’s gone. Bill might know but he’ll probably only heckle some post you made two years ago. Ben might know but he only comes here the year before elections to tell us how bad democrats are. I hope you post the whole set when you’re done. Looks great to my unskilled eye. ---
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1267 "2021-09-06T20:36:41Z")
I certainly will. 33 more pieces to go. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_Scowls\_Like\_That](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/who_scowls_like_that/32/6042_2.png) [@Who\_Scowls\_Like\_That](https://bbad.com/u/Who_Scowls_Like_That)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1268 "2021-09-06T22:14:11Z")
> [@Reg](#): > > Bill might know but he’ll probably only heckle some post you made two years ago. why do you post on a platform that preserves your post for two years? wouldn’t you be more comfy with a snapchat thing where your mistakes disappear? ---
**Author:** ![Reg](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/reg/32/6053_2.png) [@Reg](https://bbad.com/u/Reg)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1269 "2021-09-06T23:14:24Z")
I’m comfy here, Bill. If you want to make a fool of yourself quibbling about people’s wording from random multi-year-old posts, go nuts, as redundant as that is in your case. Perhaps that can be your obit. Here lies Bill. He fussed about the words unremarkable people chose years ago. ---
**Author:** ![thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/u/thinkingaboutit)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 5:47am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1270 "2021-09-07T05:47:10Z")
> [@NicksCafe](#): > > I 3d printed my first piece. Needs a bolt, filler and felt. nice! looking forward to see the whole set ---
**Author:** ![Who\_Scowls\_Like\_That](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/who_scowls_like_that/32/6042_2.png) [@Who\_Scowls\_Like\_That](https://bbad.com/u/Who_Scowls_Like_That)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1271 "2021-09-07T09:09:58Z")
> [@Reg](#): > > Will would know but he’s gone. Bill might know but he’ll probably only heckle some post you made two years ago. Ben might know but he only comes here the year before elections to tell us how bad democrats are. reg might know but he knows everything anybody he mention ever own a 3d printer? or is reg just a little bitch? ---
**Author:** ![thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/u/thinkingaboutit)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1272 "2021-09-10T10:31:24Z")
ah almost missed pogchamps 4 altogether lol looks like some (unknown to me) minecraft streamer named fundy might win it this year [https://www.pogchampschess.com/groupstage/4/](https://www.pogchampschess.com/groupstage/4/) ---
**Author:** ![thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/u/thinkingaboutit)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1273 "2021-09-14T14:28:40Z")
yup fundy won, that was quite a boring pogchamps [https://www.pogchampschess.com/brackets/4/](https://www.pogchampschess.com/brackets/4/) ---
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 5:28pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1274 "2021-09-14T17:28:25Z")
Agreed. It flew by, too. ---
**Author:** ![NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/user_avatar/bbad.com/nickscafe/32/9765_2.png) [@NicksCafe](https://bbad.com/u/NicksCafe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 9:01pm UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1275 "2021-09-29T21:01:09Z")
I went to the new lowell chess club. I went 4-0 and decided to stop playing so I didn’t lose. I was probably tied for 3rd out of 12. All levels. I printed a few more. Will take me a while to print. I don’t have a lot of free time and I’m spending more on making kombucha and blueberry jams than I am on chess pieces. And yoga. Didn’t love how the knight came out. Will have to work on that one. ![20210927_171354](https://bbad.com/uploads/default/original/2X/e/ef2ffc7adaa36e40928243b756f98eb25945a6f2.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@thinkingaboutit](https://bbad.com/u/thinkingaboutit)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316/1276 "2021-09-30T09:31:05Z")
> [@NicksCafe](#): > > I went to the new lowell chess club. I went 4-0 and decided to stop playing so I didn’t lose. I was probably tied for 3rd out of 12. All levels. > > I printed a few more. Will take me a while to print. I don’t have a lot of free time and I’m spending more on making kombucha and blueberry jams than I am on chess pieces. And yoga. Didn’t love how the knight came out. Will have to work on that one. lol@stopping playing chess so you wouldnt lose, that reminds me of my dad who beat me once at chess when i was 16 and he doesnt want to play me again since 😉 nice! the knight doesnt look too bad to me, just needs a little cleaning? that queen looks pretty slick! [Previous page](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316.md?page=62) [Next page](https://bbad.com/t/chess/316.md?page=64)