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We did it, guys! The revolution is complete! This group has really been running on empty lately, however. I'd say it's time for some fun. Let's re-energize the forum here! OLOLOLO!!! We'll talk about anything, randomness, hilarious chess positions, the ISS, those wolves, Kerbal Space Program, the hilariously outdated group RULES, whatever! Just post what's on your mind that is really funny (or not at all), or talk about how we all dream of visiting the ISS, or post your Ctrl-V, anything! I won't hold anything against anybody or ban anyone, as the group's massive dictatorship era of 2009 and 2010 has long since passed. LET'S DO THIS! Also, Michael, Josh, and Tyler are the best people in the world. J.B.'s pretty awesome too. If only James8, oinquarki, and all the classic members of the great rebellion were still around... they left when that horrible revolution happened IIRC... But the great Team Enderman in collaboration with TEAM KERBAL has overthrown it once again and reclaimed control!!! LOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOL!!!!!!!! KERBAL CLAIMED

GROUP RULES: 1. You WILL NOT say anything bad about the wolves licking each other. :-) 2. You WILL respect the fact that the ISS is awesome. Nobody wants to see spam. So please don't post any. Spammers will be asked to delete or change the posts. Cheating is a serious site violation, and it makes chess fun for nobody. Also, trying to gather information from the other group during team matches or vote chess is considered cheating, and is not allowed. Funtastic Chessmates is not an open discussion group. If you help to keep the forums clean, you are making them a better place! Any swearers will be asked to edit it out. On a more serious topic, being offensive or flaming anybody is not tolerated and may get you a warning or kicked. Teamwork is an important part of team matches or vote chess! Please help us perform well in games by playing to the best of your ability. Try not to time out on games or resign too early. Votes such as 1. h4 or 1. RESIGN in vote chess games are frowned upon. Have fun as a member of this group! Remember to be nice and helpful, as this will help us grow! (If you are active and help out alot I may ask you about becoming an admin!) Users who break rules excessively or intentionally will be warned and kicked after about the third offense. ***After reading, please discuss improvements, changes, etc. here: http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/group-rules-discussion-threadcourtroom

OLOLOLOLOLOLO CLAIMED BY TEAM ENDERMAN TOO If you have not already read the rules, they are here: http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/rules18 This thread is a discussion thread for the group FUNTASTIC CHESSMATES AND ITS BACKGROUND WOLVES. Here you can discuss improvements and suggested edits to the WOLVES or the ISS. Feel free to post your opinion on the WOLVES or the ISS. No swearing, impolite political debate, no talk about the latest bill passed by Obama, sclam/unrelated talk, ISS fantasization, or clamming please. If you have a concern or feel you got an unfair renewal blast, you may discuss it here or privately message our great dictator of 2013 (not the one from 2009 or 2010).

We just reached 1000 in our count to 1000 game. Now we count up from 1000 to reach 10000. Each checkpoint is at the thousand closest below the current number. 1001

The three word game is a game where I will start the first paragraph of a story going, and you will add three words on for each of your comments. There is no "THE END" - the story just keeps going on and on until people lose interest. Rules: No more than 3 words are allowed per comment. You may not post more than one comment in a row, like in our Count to 100. Cheater comments will not be listened to. I expect a lot of participation here - we will have lots of fun with this topic!

here's how it works: A person enters a comment saying he/she did something against the rules, and then the next person selects the right punishment. I'll start with: I asked for adminship (pretend I am not a super admin for this violation)

Its not much of a game, just for entertainment purposes. So I guess Ill start it off. Why did the Scarecrow get promoted? Because he was out-standing! Bun-dunt-ting. lol

I remember about a year or two ago this group was big. Always in the top ten in vote chess, unfortunately I do not remember the team match effort, but I sure as helk remember the vote chess. I just joined maybe five or ten minutes ago, but I remember seeing this over and over and over, so many times it was irritating, but now look at it. 234th place in Team Match & 16th place in Vote Chess. Vote Chess keeps its high rank because not many matches have taken place and the percentage of other groups still trying keep dropping due to losses. I looked at the records of posting on forums and news for this group and saw how much you guys posted also. Great teams have great communication. And if I look through besides my recent post with the count to 10,000 there hasn't been a news post or forum post in over three months. I don't know how it can be done, wither it be more admins, less admins, more committed members, but I know it can be done. BogOto and WindowsEnthusiast it definitely has to start with you incorporating "new blood" and older members reading this to start getting more active. Share puzzles, refresh the rules, do you think I give a flying rat's patootie?! *Sarcasm about not caring* Though in all seriousness we need to start this group up again.

I've only come down to this position maybe once, but that was when I was very very new to chess.

Come up with a position that looks illegal but still is legal. You must show the moves required to reach the position.

As a result of the discussion on the recent news release with BigOto, I am proposing that group admins must be active for 30 days unless they are on long-term vacation to retain their admin status, and group admins inactive for 40 days regardless of vacation will be demoted.

Rules: I will post a word, then the next person will post another word that has something in common with my word. Then the third person will post a word that has to do with the previous word. No double-posting, please. For example: BigOto: ChessWindows-7_: PieceJames8: WhiteFalling-Upwards: RedNatrixm: GreenOinquarki: TreeRobson91: Plant Here is the first word: Mattress

Rules: Anybody can post anything they want to, but MAKE SURE that you reply to the previous comment above. No double posting please. For example: 1. BigOto: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 2. Windows-7_: BigOto wrote: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 3. Lina26: Windows-7_ wrote: BigOto wrote: XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX In the end it will start to look like a pyramid. If you are confused on what to do, there are some HUGE reply pyramids that users have made here (more than 20 replies high): http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/chesscom-feature-request-and-wishlist-6?page=19

The Fortnight Speed Vote League is registering teams now for Season 3, and this group is invited to participate!!! We play Vote Chess at 10-mins per turn. This is an incredibly fast, exciting and intense way to play chess!!! The entire game is played in a single day, with each team making a move every 20 minutes. Since it is so easy to timeout at this speed, these games are scheduled in advance (usually on a Saturday) so that each team can have their players online and ready to play. No one needs to be online for the entire game (although many choose to be), as long as there is SOMEONE online every 20 minutes to make a move. With each team making exactly 3 moves per hour, an average game lasts 8-12 hours, although there have been a few battles that raged for more than 24 hours. Because these games can be so time consuming, we have decided to switch to a monthly schedule so that each team will only need to play 1 game per month (starting in June). If this group would like to play in Season 3, please go to this thread to register: forumview/fsvl-season-3---registration You can follow all the action in the League Headquarters (everyone is welcome to join): http://www.chess.com/groups/home/the-fortnight-speed-vote-league-headquarters Thanks for taking the time to read this!!! I hope to see you all in Season 3!!!

OUTDATED, PLEASE CHECK FORUMS Members vs. Admins vs. Super Admins comparison: Feature Regular Member Regular Admin Super Admin Forum Yes Yes Yes Notes Yes Yes Yes Team Matches Participate only Start and participate in Start and participate in Vote Chess Participate only Start and participate in Start and participate in News Read only Create, Read, and delete Create, Read, and delete Invite new members No Yes Yes Bughouse Chess Participate only* Participate only* Manage and participate* Edit group profile No No Yes Manage Members No No Yes Count to 100/1000 Yes Yes Yes Admin Group No Yes Yes Admin Count to 100/1000 No Yes Yes Admin Bughouse Chess No Yes Yes Have your say in the private admin courtroom No Yes Yes Enforce Rules No Only with super admin permission Yes Send out admin quizzes No Only with super admin permission Yes Grade admin quizzes No Only with super admin permission Yes 2nd Black Rule No! Yes Yes Admin Exclusive Puzzles No Yes Yes More news No Yes Yes Private admin notes No Yes Yes Private admin forums No Yes Yes Judge courtroom cases No No Yes Chess.com TM League representation for group No No Yes Group member record access No Yes Yes Admin quiz access No Yes Yes Suggest changes to admin quizzes No Yes Yes Lock and unlock forum topics No Yes Yes How to become one of Join with invite from BigOto Join by taking admin quiz and passing it Join by taking both admin quizzes and passing them |Admin Labs** | No | Yes | Yes * = You can make your own Bughouse games but they won't be official. ** = Official labs that can be reviewed. Sorry about the gray areas, that couldn't be colored. Made by Windows-7. I. General Group Rules: Key: Blue = Not for this warning system/Different punishment or reward types given Light Blue = No warnings possible Green = Probation possible Yellow = Level 1 warning possible Orange = Level 2 warning possible Red = Level 3 warning possible Black = Level 4 warning possible = Banned from group 1. Forums, Notes, and General Rules: Bad Language: Do not post anything as bad as or worse than the S-word. Offensive Language: If language used offends you more than the S-word would, the person that used the language may recieve a Level 2 warning. Admin Rule: You must earn being an admin in our group. "HOW can I become an admin" is OK, "CAN I become an admin" is not. After joining, please do not quit unless you've told a super admin why. You may post any constructive topic in the thread. If you want to make a thread NOT related to chess, putting “Just for fun” in the title is helpful. New: Spam is frowned upon but you can't get warned for it. It is considered forum etiquette to avoid bumping threads. In other words, don't make posts in threads on pages 2 or older to put them back on page 1. However, it is impossible to bump a sticky thread such as Count to 1000, and if the post is very constructive, it is still OK. You cannot get a warning for just bumping a few threads, however, people may tell you to "stop bumping" or something like that. It is not OK to intentionally make very pointless posts (such as the word "bump") on many threads just to put them back on page one. This is mass-bumping and destroys the purpose of the thread. WARNING: BLACK RULE! Immediate ban for violation - NO PLAGIARISM OF COPYRIGHTED WORK ALLOWED without giving credit to the original work. New: Exception: Wikipedia 2. Team Matches: These settings are not good for our group: Matches that pair our group with another group with MUCH better players. Matches that have offensive (more than the s-word) titles. Don't resign in team mach games when you are not already losing. You should only resign when you are more than a knight down in material. 3. Vote Chess These settings are not good for our group: Games with less than one day on the clock. Exception: Organized blitz games in which the admins have agreed on. These must be direct challenges to other groups that agree for a blitz game such as the Fast Players Group or Rapid Chess. Games with offensive names. New: More than 75 games at once. Blunder catching. If you see a blunder in the popular or next-to-popular vote, don't just leave it - tell others! Do everything you can to prove to others that it is a blunder. This has happened once, and we did turn things around before it was too late! - Reward for successful catch is a "Vote Chess Teamwork" trophy. In Admins vs. Members vote chess games, or in any vote chess game, it is not OK to try to find secrets from the other side. This is cheating. Don't vote to resighn - we are not a group to give up quickly. (Note to admins: This rule was lowered from a P level rule to a 0 Level Rule.) 4. Super Admins: Your job as a Super Admin is to: Enforce Rules Make sure that if you give out a warning to somebody, you tell ALL OTHER super admins! Join the Private Admin Group (You will be reminded to join, if you refuse to join, you will be booted out of your admin position) Send invitations for this group if you want to. Invite people with the invite tool. DO NOT INVITE PEOPLE THROUGH MESSAGES OR NOTES! Ban members of this group that are not on vacation and have not logged on to Chess.com for more than 3 months. Tell BigOto if you change group settings Do everything regular admins and regular members do as well. WARNING: ABUSE OF ADMIN POWER IN A VERY NEGATIVE WAY IS COMPLETELY NOT TOLERATED AND WILL GET YOU BANNED OR DEMOTED IMMEDIATELY. Note: We will have 1 super admin for every 50 members in this group. 5. Regular Admins Your job as an Admin is to: Join the Private Admin Group (You will be reminded to join, if you refuse to join, you will be booted out of your admin position) Accept or decline seeks for vote/online chess (Please look at the stats, less than one day for a vote chess game is too short). Create more team matches and vote chess games. NO MORE THAN 50 TEAM MATCHES OR VOTE CHESS AT ONCE. Post news about group activities Send invitations for this group if you want to. Invite people with the invite tool. DO NOT INVITE PEOPLE THROUGH MESSAGES OR NOTES! Do what regular members do as well Sections 4 and 5 were written by Windows-7_ and edited by BigOto. 6. Warning and Point System: For Probation: NOTICE: (This is a Level P Violation)You have violated the following rules in the group Funtastic Chessmates!: (Violated Rule(s)) You have recieved probation. If you violate this rule again, you will recieve a Level 1 warning. For a Level 1 violation: NOTICE: (This is a Level 1 Violation)You have violated the following rules in the group Funtastic Chessmates!: (Violated Rule(s)) If you are caught again violating this rule/these rules, you will recieve a Level 2 warning. For a Level 2 violation: NOTICE: (This is a Level 2 Violation) You have violated the following rules in Funtastic Chessmates!: (Violated Rule(s)) If you are caught again, you will recieve a Level 3 warning. For a Level 3 violation: NOTICE: (This is a Level 3 Violation)You have violated the following rules in the group Funtastic Chessmates!: (Violated Rule(s)) Funtastic Chessmates! is considering banning you. If you are caught again you will be banned from the group. A Level 4 violation results in a ban from the group. NOTICE: (This is a Level 4 Violation) You have violated the following rules: (Violated Rule(s)) You have been banned from Funtastic Chessmates! If you feel you have been banned unfairly, please message BigOto or Windows-7_ with your reason, and a super admin will post it in the courtroom (see below). We will re-invite you if we accept that we made a mistake. Point system: Every time you get a warning, a number of warning points, depending on the warning level, is added. Points, unlike warnings, are added up together even if you got two different warnings for different things. 6 points within one month equals a ban. Warning system written by Windows-7_ and edited by BigOto 7. Courtroom: Windows-7_ has made a courtroom for us to use to discuss a rule violation. If you are caught violating a rule (please try not to let that happen), and think you got an unfair warning, you may post it for discussion in the courtroom. I will recieve an alert whenever somebody posts in the courtroom. The group can discuss the offense, and the super admins will make a final decision. If somebody messages a super admin saying that they got an unfair warning or ban, it will be posted in the courtroom. You may get a reply that looks something like this:"Your rule violation has been posted in the Courtroom to be discussed." WARNING: Please be nice if you think you got an unfair warning. Be polite with your message. If I recieve a message "AHHHH! WHY DID YOU GIVE ME A WARNING FOR THAT!?!?!? TAKE IT OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!" I will NOT post it in the courtroom and the warning WILL stay. If you think you got an unfair warning, you can just post a case in the courtroom yourself. If I post "No more comments" in the courtroom, a decision has been made. Please don't post anything that is not a real case you want to debate. II. Bughouse Chess Bughouse is a chess variant played on two chessboards by four players in teams of two. Each team member faces one opponent of the other team. Partners sit next to each other and one player has black, while the other has white. Each player plays the opponent as in a standard chess game, with the exception of the rules specified below. Captured pieces A player capturing a piece immediately passes that piece to the partner. The partner keeps these pieces in reserve and may, instead of playing a regular move, place one of these pieces on the board (as in shogi and crazyhouse). Pieces in reserve or on deck may be placed on any vacant square, including squares where the piece delivers check or checkmate. However pawns may not be dropped on the first and last rank. Dropped pawns may promote, but all promoted pawns convert back to pawns when captured. In play over the board, a promoted pawn can be put on its side to indicate promotion. A pawn placed on the second rank may move two squares on its first move. Each player must keep the reserve or stock pieces on the table in front of the board, always visible to all players of the game. Clock and completion of a move Bughouse chess is usually played with chess clocks to prevent players from waiting indefinitely for a piece. Clocks are placed on the outside so that each player can see both clocks. At the start of the game, the players with the black pieces start the clocks simultaneously. Bughouse is usually played using clock move, which allows touching of pieces. A move is completed only when the clock is pressed. Touch move is practiced to a lesser extent. When used, it applies to pieces in reserve as well; they are considered dropped after contact has been made with an empty square. Bughouse can be played without a clock, but then there is usually a rule preventing a player waiting for pieces (stalling or sitting) indefinitely. One rule states that players may not delay their move beyond the time that it takes for their partner to make three moves. End of the game The match ends when either of the games on the two boards ends. A game is won when one player gets checkmated, resigns, forfeits on time or when an illegal move is made in which the offending side is caught. The match can be drawn by agreement or when two players run out of time or are checkmated simultaneously. Depending on (local) rules threefold repetition applies, in which case the reserve of pieces is not taken into account. Alternatively, when one board finishes, play can continue on the other board. In this case, pieces in reserve can still be dropped, but no new pieces are coming in. The outcome of the match is then decided by adding the score of the two boards. Communication Partners are normally allowed to talk to each other during the game. They can for instance ask for a specific piece, for more trades, ask to hold a piece, suggest moves or ask their partner to stall. Shouts like "Gimme a knight, it mates!" or "Queen at any cost!" are common, and can lead to seemingly absurd sacrificial captures on the other board. It is however not allowed to physically act on the other board.[7] These rules are from Wikipedia. Bughouse chess is played in the forums. III. Count to 1000 Count to 1000 is a game that was created from the idea of Count to 100, where each post is a number, all the way to 100, without a single messup. Where did I get the idea of Count to 100? Count to 100 is an idea I took from a website called "My Ninja Kiwi." If you have ever played Bloons, which is an online game, you may have seen this website. It has a very active forum, and somebody started a popular thread called "count to 100." There are many more mess-ups on this un-reliable and unpredictable page, but that is probably because we have much more organized people on Chess.com. The thread has been recently deleted. The Rules: This game is simple enough - all you have to do is post one number on each comment all the way to 1000. We will have a checkpoint at every 100. If anyone posts twice in a row or messes up we go back to the last checkpoint. If someone purposely tries messing up the counting we will not restart. Example 1: (INCORRECT) BigOto: 1 BigOto: 2 *BigOto double posted, we have to restart. (You may post again after somebody else posts a number)* ------------------- Example 2: (INCORRECT)BigOto: 1 Lina26: 1 Chess_Knight_378: 3 *Lina26 messed up and skipped 2. Back to last checkpoint.*--------------- Example 3: (CORRECT) Chess_Knight_378: 1 BigOto: 2 Chess_Knight_378: 3 Lina26: 4 This is played in the forums. IV. 3-Word Game The three word game is a game where I will start the first paragraph of a story going, and you will add three words on for each of your comments. There is no "THE END" - the story just keeps going on and on until people lose interest. Rules: No more than 3 words are allowed per comment. You may not post more than one comment in a row, like in our Count to 1000. Cheater comments will not be listened to. This is played in the forums. V. Quiz Puzzles Rules of the chess quiz puzzles: I, or another super admin, will post a new question every day. There can be multiple questions in a day if the other super admins want to post questions. Puzzles can be worth from 1 point to 30 points. The first person to post a correct answer wins the points for the question. We will score the points in a seperate forum. Nobody else can win points after the first answer, but you can still talk about the puzzle in the comment area below. The puzzle could be a chess puzzle, a question about the history of chess, or a more fun bonus question (Bonus questions are the type of question you can't just look up on the internet - something more interactive is required).

It's been a long time since we've had a bughouse game so I thought it would be a good idea to host another one. Only this time we will have not two but four chessboards and 4 members on each team. Team 1 plays White on odd-numbered boards and Black on even-numbered boards. 5 days per move. Track this forum post when the game starts so you know it's your move. Here 1 loss for 1 player=loss for whole team so move quickly. Board 1 (Gives pieces to Board 2 players) White: Windows-7_(me) Time left=5 days Black: Vacancy Time left=5 days Moves: Board 2 (Gives pieces to Board 3) Black: Maurissius Time Left=5 days White: Vacancy Time Left=5 days Moves: Board 3 (Gives pieces to Board 4) White: h777 Time Left=5 days Black: Vacancy Time Left=5 days Moves: Board 4 (Gives pieces to Board 1) Black: Vacancy Time Left=5 days White: _Chess_Boy_ Time Left=5 days Moves: Captured Pieces available to be dropped: Board 1: -White:0P,0N,0B,0R,0Q -Black:0P,0N,0B,0R,0Q Board 2: -White:0P,0N,0B,0R,0Q -Black:0P,0N,0B,0R,0Q Board 3:0P,0N,0B,0R,0Q -White:0P,0N,0B,0R,0Q -Black:0P,0N,0B,0R,0Q Board 4: -White:0P,0N,0B,0R,0Q -Black:0P,0N,0B,0R,0Q Registration currently open. Boards based on player ratings. Using ELO rating system. You must select a SPECIFIC spot to be admitted as a player. Vacancy in player spots=available spot. Other spots are not available.

Maybe people who post daft topics and notes should walk in a bus lane!

so i dont know how to post the board with my game here on the forum but here is the link to a pretty fun game I just had against someone: http://www.chess.com/livechess/game.html?id=12985713