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Player Needed for Turbo Chess
RoseQuartz needs an opponent. Any volunteers? This weird type of chess, found only on MuseBlog, gives each player seven queens. You can see the board by clicking below. Read more »
“Half-Blood Prince”: The Movie
Discussion of this film could easily take over the whole blog, so please confine it to this thread.
WARNING: ABUNDANT SPOILERS ARE INEVITABLE HERE.
Chess Partners Needed
Purple Panda Cat’s Eye is looking for an opponent for a game of online chess.
bookworm wants to play Capablanca-style chess. (That’s the version with two extra pieces, described a couple of dozen threads below.)
Anyone up for either of them?
Quotations, v. 2009.3
Continued from Quotations, 2009.2, after that thread erupted into a heated religious discussion.
Boston Kokonvention Photo Album
At long last, here they are. Introducing the Boston Kokonventioneers… Read more »
Date: June 24, 2009
Categories: Fan Page / MuseBlog business, Kokonventions, Sound and images
Happy Summer!
Or winter, for MBers in the Southern Hemisphere. Today (June 21) is the solstice, which marks the official start of it, in either case.
Hot Topics, v. 2009.3
This thread is a place for careful, clear, respectful discussions of difficult topics. It is not a place for having two-fisted no-holds-barred discussions.
MBers should be able to express their opinions without attacking others personally, and be able to listen to people who disagree with them without feeling personally attacked.
Easier said than done, of course. But MuseBlog is a good place to practice trying.
Continued from version 2009.2.
Turbo Chess: fireandhemlock1996 vs. RoseQuartz
This is the game played entirely with kings, queens, and pawns. Read more »
Weird Chess Experiments
One nice thing about this new chess software is that it can handle non-standard layouts like these: Read more »
New Way to Play Chess on the Blog
We’ve found some software that lets you enter moves with your mouse, directly on the board. Just click on the piece you want to move, and then on the square to which you want to move it. Easy, no? Try it!
This board won’t save your moves for other people to see. (At least, the documentation says it won’t. We can’t tell.) To make it do that, you need a MuseBlog chessplayer’s account with a password. Then you could log in and play your opponent without having to post your moves for an Administrator to enter. We can make those accounts if there’s enough interest. Note that a valid email address is required.
What do you think? Comments, please:
“Raw Materials” is Back!
Larry Gonick fans will know (and lament) that Larry’s non-Muse Web comic came to a standstill after discovery.com stopped publishing it. But be of good cheer: “Raw Materials” is now back in business at www . simple-talk .com/author/larry-gonick/
Go, Spellers!
The 82nd Scripps National Spelling Bee is in full swing in Washington, D.C., just a block and a half from Robert’s office. We don’t know whether any Musers are in it, but At least one Muser is competing this year, and there may be more; it’s the kind of place where they hang out (witness emmatheduck and speller73 of yore). So warm wishes to all contestants, and good luck to any orthographoMusers in the pack.