Where I live, nobody has heard of chess. They prefer mouse racing! :-) I tried to get my partner interested in playing, but for some reason he gets pissed off when the chess machine beats him at level 3. I cannot understand why someone who hardly ever plays can get angry when they lose. What did they expect to happen? :-(
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earlier this year I visited Melbourne Australia. The main library had a huge chess section with boards available on desks and loads of people playing. outside the library was a couple of giant sets again being well used. I could have stayed there for weeks - brilliant!
Oct 9, 2018
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Some time ago in my city the Central park administration used to organise blitz tournaments the winners of which could get several free attraction passes as a prize. It was a lot of fun
Oct 19, 2018
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ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
Hey Spudnik, you're in the gravy!
St Louis is about 250 miles away at the other end of the state. And other than the chess, the place is a pit.
Oct 19, 2018
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IMRonilm1204 wrote:
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh has a special place in my chess memories: my first tournament was there in 1970. As they say, you always remember your first one.
Oct 22, 2018
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ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
Wow, and there I was, thinking I'd meet you at the fair!
Fair is foul and foul is fair.
Hover through the fog and the Baudelaire!
Baudelaire is referring to
Violet, Sunny and Klaus????
Violet, Sunny and Klaus????
Jan 19, 2019
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over half of those are in police states... there is more to picking a place to live than whether the peasants are allowed to play chess.
Jan 19, 2019
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glamdring27 wrote:
Linares, Chile has nothing to do with chess, as far as I know.
Sorry, I meant Linares, Spain, but I wrote the wrong one
Jan 19, 2019
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PuttingFromTheRough wrote:
Funny you would say the best cities a chess fan would want to live in with India on the list. I don't think there is a city in India that comes close to being livable.
It's objectively incorrect to say that the country with the second highest population in the world isn't "livable"
Jan 19, 2019
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Don't forget Arlington, VA, USA as well as any other city in Northern Virginia. Chess is really big there.
Las Vegas, Philly, and DC are huge areas.
Jan 19, 2019
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PuttingFromTheRough wrote:
AlisonHart wrote:
PuttingFromTheRough wrote:
Funny you would say the best cities a chess fan would want to live in with India on the list. I don't think there is a city in India that comes close to being livable.
It's objectively incorrect to say that the country with the second highest population in the world isn't "livable"
Just go by the studies. India is one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and has a low human development index.
Those folks are just so underdeveloped. They desperately need the help of American inmates like you.
Doing a little research I was able to find out that these following cities are some of the places a chess fan would love to live in.
Moscow, Russia
London, England
New York, New York
Tromsø, Norway
Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
Reykjavik, Iceland
St. Petersburg, Russia
Baku, Azerbaijan
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Barcelona, Spain
Beijing, China
Berlin, Germany
Chennai, India
Dallas, USA
St. Louis, USA
Dortmund, Germany
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Elista, Russia
Linares, Spain
Wijk aan Zee. Netherlands
Do you live in any of these cities or in any other place that is also good for a chess fan to live in? if so, please tell us a little bit about it, and if you can show us pictures of the places where you enjoy playing chess at.
Thank you!