I know this is an odd place to bring up this topic, but this is the only forum that wouldn't send a bunch of forum police for bringing up something that's off topic. Also, this is the only forum I use frequently in which I actually feel some special kinship with other users.
I HATE chess. It's supposed to be the quintessential strategy game. If you are great at strategy games, yous should be great at chess. If you are great at board games that require strategic thinking, you should be awesome at chess. Why do I suck so much at this game?
I know how every piece moves. Pawns can move two spaces on their first move, they can move one space diagonally to take out a rival piece. Rooks can move forward or sideways as many spaces as they want unless something is blocking them, etc.
I know how every freaking piece can move.
I've never played against a real player, only a CPU AI. I play it in the easiest mode and the computer always beats me!
The only explanation I can think of is that I don't get the rules. Not all of them anyways. I know how the pieces are SUPPOSED to move.
Somehow, the CP always uses it's queen to take out a bishop situated right in front of a pawn. I want to use the pawn to take the queen, and it won't let me. Why?
I assume a pawn can't take a queen so I arrogantly use my queen to take out a knight right in front of a pawn, then that pawn freaking takes my queen!?
I HATE THIS GAME!!! ARRRGH!
I'm good at every classic board game! Backgammon? Good! Checkers? Good! I won several games of Cribbage without even knowing what the hell was going on!
Why do I suck so horribly at chess? What the hell am I not getting?
For god's sake I play Dwarf Fortress! You think Garry Kasparov could understand the first thing about Dwarf Fortress?