Calling all geeks :)
Mar. 14th, 2008 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astri13Does anybody know anything about chess? Vista has this regular chess program and I`ve been trying to teach myself. At first the computer cleaned my clock every single time but I`m getting the hang of it slowly. One thing I do not get however is when a game ends in checkmate and when it`s considered a draw.
Now picture me having beat every figure but the opponent`s king while I work on boxing him in with my queen, knight, bishop etc (whatever I have left in the game, sometimes I manage to get pawns "promoted" to queen) and then it happens and the king can make no more legitimate move yet sometimes the computer counts it as checkmate for me, sometimes as a draw. I just do need see the difference there. Hm.
Now picture me having beat every figure but the opponent`s king while I work on boxing him in with my queen, knight, bishop etc (whatever I have left in the game, sometimes I manage to get pawns "promoted" to queen) and then it happens and the king can make no more legitimate move yet sometimes the computer counts it as checkmate for me, sometimes as a draw. I just do need see the difference there. Hm.
