/lit/ - Literature

>>3046057
>go look at /tg/ and tell me anything fits on /tg

Go and actually look at /tg/ and tell me that anything at all in your mind doesn't fit there. On /tg/ we know how to handle trolls: we make them awesome when it's worthwhile

Shame your petty troll is too weaksauce for a proper board, so you bring it down here to the playground to try it out.

>>3046064
>troll
Why on earth would I want to troll my home board? And why on earth would I choose chess to troll with?
Trust me, I tried /tg/, I tried /sp/, I tried /sci/, and chess doesn't fit.
Chess threads on /lit/ have had a good response, and people other than me have even been creating threads. Chess fits here..

>posting a Nabokov book in a chess thread
>not Luzhin Defense

cool im gonna go start a /lit/ thread about the NBA preseason

>>3046084
basketball suxxxx, start one about the baseball playoffs instead

>>3046084
Can you read an NBA game without subtracting from the experience of seeing it live?

>>3046093
yes, ever hear of box scores?

>>3046057

go to

>>3046097

>>3046092

There's a million books about baseball - it's a fertile ground for literature.

Check out Ring Lardner and George Plimpton if you don't believe me. And I'm not even ameristani - there's been some genuinely good writing about baseball.

See also Robert Coover - The Universal Baseball wossname.

I hate when people come into a thread and start bitching that it doesn't "belong". If people are discussing it, then that means they are interested in it. Why deny your fan base something they want. If you don't like it, simply don't reply to it, and don't further the discussion.

>>3046057
OP, for what it's worth, I agree with you. Chess does not fit in well with /tg/, and I actually see it partnering with /lit/ fairly well. Of course, most so-called /lit/erates are a bunch of pseudo-intellectuals who are probably frustrated with chess because they're bad at it, so perhaps this isn't the place after all.

Chess isn't literature though.
Polite sage.

>>3046102
Why does anyone even watch basketball then?
Seems like a waste of time if just checking the box score the next morning is the exact same experience.

>>3046121

/lit/ is too stupid for chess. try starting a thread about angry birds - i guarantee you'll get 250+ responses.

OP, you seem to treat /lit/ as "/lit/ - high brow."

It isn't. Literature isn't chess, and we both know that this isn't about books on chess.

Do I really have to go to /q/ to get this thread nuked too?

how does one learn to play chess?

>playing chess
>not playing starcraft 2

ok ishig

>Philosophy girl thread
>Chess thread
>I can't understand x thread
>Wizards in books thread
>Nietzsche thread
>Rate my writing lit thread
>Shitty philosophy thread
>How to describe an orgasam
>Walrus thread (DAILY)

/lit/ has become /edgy/ and /pseudo intellectual/
Don't feel bad OP, you can post any shit that makes you feel superior patrician over others on this board.

>Not posting The Defence or Chess Story.

OP giving Chess players and readers a bad name scince 2012. Well done you Mechanical Fag

>>3046740
*since
grmmnnnnnmnn

>>3046738
Lately i've been hiding 50-80% of threads on lit. I don't get why people want their threads to be on /lit/ so much when there are actual boards tailored for their topics.

>>3046137
>Why does anyone even watch basketball then?

why does anyone ever watch a movie instead of reading a book?

>>3046078
>>3046740
It's "Poems and Problems", guys. As in "chess problems".

IM GONNA START A THREAD ON /LIT/ 'BOUT MY FAVOURITE GUN BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE IT ON /K/

>>3046816
Flawed analogy. /k/ is full of weapons, but you'd be hard-pressed to find a traditional game thread on /tg/ (unless you think pen and paper games invented by neckbeards in the 70's are 'traditional games')
And how would a post about your gun apply to /lit/?

>>3046794
Help me out a little, have I got this right -
Book is to movie what box score is to live basketball game?

>>3046723
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess
I'm not joking

>High level chess games are dialogues between two insanely skilled artists, which are recorded, published, and read and enjoyed by millions of people around the world. It's literature that transcends language.

Shut the fuck up with your bullshit and post this on the correct board.

>>3046901
>but you'd be hard-pressed to find a traditional game thread on /tg/ (unless you think pen and paper games invented by neckbeards in the 70's are 'traditional games')
That's the board definition of traditional games so yes.

And /tg/ does have chess threads every now and then. And if there isn't at the moment? Then fucking make one you bloody imbecile.

Either way chess clearly does not fucking belong on /lit/.

>>3046922
Tell me what you know about chess and how that causes you to take issue with what I wrote.

>>3046944
/tg/ has chess threads every now and then because I fucking make them you dolt.
It's not an issue with there being no threads, but that when there is threads they're empty.
/tg/ just isn't receptive to things that don't include roleplay, or some form of goblins and wizards.
>chess clearly does not fucking belong on /lit
Chess fits perfectly well on /lit/, you're suffering from stoplikingwhatidon'tlike syndrome

>>3046953
No, /tg/ is not receptive to something where there's nothing to discuss.

I've seen long and fruitful chess problem threads. I've even seen /tg/ play whole games of chess.

>Chess fits perfectly well on /lit/, you're suffering from stoplikingwhatidon'tlike syndrome

No, I am suffering from "it's not in the fucking definition of what fits on /lit/" syndrome.

I'm sure /lit/ is even more terrible at chess than /tg/.

>>3046957
>/tg/ is not receptive to something where there's nothing to discuss
Are you fucking kidding me? When I provided /tg/ with live text commentary to the World Championship a few months ago, the majority of comments were the equivalent of "chess is for plebs, play MTG".

wtf does chess have to do with literature??

fuck off

>>3046979
I should add that I heartily lol'ed when an amateur chessplayer with the playing strength of a dead fish won a big Magic tournament in May

>>3046979
Oh boohoo for you nigger.

>>3046982
What is literature you fucking twat?

>>3046990
Books.

>>3047000
>Books
Ha, you're going to have to do better than that, I've got books a'plenty for you

>>3046990
obviously not fucking board games you cunt

>>3047004
Book about something != that thing

Knowing this will come to handy some day, I hope you will take this lesson to heart.

>>3047006
Do your teeth hurt from all that clenching?

>>3047008
pic related, it's a score sheet.
A game of chess had to be played to produce that game score, it was then published in the non-fiction book above.

I guess we have to get rid of all the threads about the act of creating literature?

>>>/tg/
traditional games........ like chess, backgammon, snakes&ladders and so on.
if you don't like /tg/ go to a chess forum.
considering you are an utter faggot you might find some luck trying http://www.reddit.com/r/chess/

>>3047014
We've covered this already,
if things were as they should be chess would be on /tg/, dungeons and dragons would be on /rp/, most of the shit that pops up on lit would be on a philosophy or religion board,
but they're not so go fuck yourself

>>3047012
Is there actually anything at all regarding chess you actually want to talk about?

What's your favourite championship game?

Favourite opening?

Most retarded mistake you've done in a game?

Anything?

I didn't think so.

chess is a very literary game.

>>3047021
>Are you going to answer this question? I didn't think so
I'm waiting for all the faggots to leave.

Karpov-Kasparov, 1984, Game 15
Modern Benoni
Do you even chess?

Anyone want to play my extreme cpu and top-tier chess engine

>>3047024
>I'm waiting for all the faggots to leave.
But you're still here...
>Do you even chess?
No, I prefer go.

>>3047027
that's cool, so go
>>>/jp/

>>3047024
My mistake, it was actually 1985, Game 16.
for reference: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1067175

>>3047027

i watched haruko no go too.

desu~

I've just started playing (I'm fucking retarded, I played my friend and got my queen taken by a pawn) and I have to say, once you open up to it, the world of chess goes out in every direction far over any horizon you can see.

>>3047026
go for it, go to lichess.org, create game, post link

Why is there a chess thread on my /liy/
fukken sage

>>3047031

Is it possible to detect chess engines? I never know if I'm playing a real person. One of the reasons I hate playing chess online.

>>3047032
you are everything that is bad about this board
go away

>>3047032
Ah, I see the problem here. You're on the wrong board, in fact I don't believe /liy/ exists. Maybe you should head on over to /q/ and suggest it!

>>3047028
Dude, go is totally /lit/.

>>3047033
It's rarer than you would think it is. Most people just want to play a good game of chess themselves.
Most playing sites have detection systems so if the play is too perfect they'll know.
Play on chess.com or chesscube.com
If you're interested in more serious play, the worlds top players play on pay servers ICC and Playchess

seriously, bro
i don't mind a chess thread on my /lit/ but being a pretentious cunt GAMES ARE LITERATURE HAVE YOU EVER FELT A Qxb4 is over the line
go fuck yourself

>>3047036
Go fits better elsewhere.
Not that you could create a go thread and even feign knowing what the fuck you're talking about.

>>3047044
No man it totally expresses my Japanese soul and shit. It's deep, therefore it's literature.

I hate chess.

FUCK CHESS

>>3047039
>your /lit/

Most of the literary substance is in the meta-game you halfwit.
Qxb4 is not just Qxb4 if it has historical context.

>>3047046
>I can't play chess
>Why didn't my daddy teach me to play chess?

As Mars met Venus in a temple,
While having Mercury in their presence,
He devised a game of chess, with new example:
Taking Reason as King without preeminence;
Will for Queen, with great potency;
Thoughts he deems for his Bishops;
His Knights, praises of sweet eloquence;
Rooks are desires to flare up one’s memory;
Pawns are servers striving to Victory.

>>3047048
>I can play chess
>why didn't I do something worthwhile with the time I spent learning that idiotic game?!

i remember when me and my friends made a nerd on the school chess team eat a plastic bishop

>>3047053
>>3047055
>>>/b/
pls go

>>3047057
>>>/tg/
pls go