I've seen several brothers mention their mastery of the game in threads recently, and someone said there may be built-in functionality to host a Chess board in the forum software.

If this is true, what are the thoughts on opening this up?

I wouldnt mind playing
I would love to have spades also
I think that would be cool too

Chess sounds great to me. I'm ready

Chess sounds great to me. I'm ready

Yes we will have too see
If we can get this for real

still learning the game .....

I think it would be great...we might all learn something

who really know this game , i hear it's a mindful game knowing
the right moves to check mate , i want to learn how to play bad !

any teachers ..........speak up !

I play brother !!

What I desire to do is to play a woman...that hasn't happened yet, and to play a woman or a brother who is left handed. That hasn't happened yet either.

I'm ambidextrous....

always up for a game of chess....................!

holla

I've seen several brothers mention their mastery of the game in threads recently, and someone said there may be built-in functionality to host a Chess board in the forum software.

If this is true, what are the thoughts on opening this up?

Brother Kemetkind ... i would love to play ... would love to have some games here for us ... where did you get the impression that our forum software will support this? Let me see! :)

:heart:

Destee

Brother Kemetkind ... i would love to play ... would love to have some games here for us ... where did you get the impression that our forum software will support this? Let me see! :)

:heart:

Destee


You know I think one of the other members mentioned you had a chess module...may have been Keita.

If not there are a few open source decent ones that are more like correspondence chess...might be a good fit for destee.com (one person could have several games going at a time and the pace could be determined by participants).

Go here for a demo of an opensource php chess server mocked up with a header to make it appear integrated with a vbulletin board :

http://www.onlinedebate.net/chess/index.php

login: demo
pwd: pass

You can follow the links out to the developer's site "LGames" to download the chess server or get it from sourceforge (OCC is the name).

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/

It seems pretty decent to play around with for low-volume premium member only activity (no idea how it scales, but since it runs on a text db and not mysql probably not much).

It has scoreboard/rating system for the community, PGN output, etc (chess folk know what that is).

other free chess servers:

webchess
http://www.iohelix.com/misc/webchess.zip.

and the most polished one is...
http://www.phpchess.com/index-2.html

but those two may be more difficult to integrate.

I'd have to look around to see if there are any native vbb chess modules....

Too late to get on the list?

I haven't played regularly for some years, but I still love playing Black moves first!

i'm down for the game of life...

one love
khasm

What's the status on this?

Its been a long time since I have been back home which explains how I missed this thread. Im up for a game of chess as well.

I recently started playing again because I'm teaching my son. I don't know why I ever stopped.

I'm very rusty.

Check out www.pogo.com. A simple and free interface.

Looking forward to playing

Count me in...QQn

I've seen several brothers mention their mastery of the game in threads recently, and someone said there may be built-in functionality to host a Chess board in the forum software.

If this is true, what are the thoughts on opening this up?

Brother Kemetkind ... i believe this was the first real mention of chess here, about a year ago, and look at us now! :D

Thank You Brother Kemetkind ... and all the Brothers!

Thank You Thank You Thank You! :bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

:heart:

Destee

Well Family, y'all need to teach me how to play Chess, because the Computer 'Chess' on my Laptop has been :whip: my behind!!!!LOL!!!

MK