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Chess or Scrabble?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Pringle, Mar 24, 2011.

  1. Sea Bass

    Sea Bass Well-Known Member

    Better chance you'll run into a hot chick playing Scrabble.
     
  2. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Good Christ man how old are you? Seriously?
     
  3. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    What do you mean by "Get good"? If you want to play chess reasonably well, it'll take a lot of time and work.
     
  4. MrHavercamp

    MrHavercamp Member

    Checkers?
     
  5. NickMordo

    NickMordo Active Member

    Wouldn't that make Scrabble more difficult? They make these crazy words no matter what letters are out there.
     
  6. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    Beg to differ. My first chess tournament I played smoking hot foreign chick in one of the rounds.
     
  7. Rhody31

    Rhody31 Well-Known Member

    Scrabble is crazy.
    There are a lot of great sites to play online and if you're going to get serious here's some advice - memorize all the two-letter words (a must) and most, if not all, of the three letter words.
    Bascially, to be good at Scrabble it's not about spelling five letter words. It's about three letters at a time and bingos (when you use all your letters).
    My favorite scrabble word ever - because it gets challenged all the time - is zaire. It's Zaire's version of the dollar.
     
  8. Rumpleforeskin

    Rumpleforeskin Active Member

    The English language is difficult as is, but Scrabble makes it a bit tougher. Regardless, I think chess has a steeper learning curve and has infinite combinations to win.
     
  9. Rumpleforeskin

    Rumpleforeskin Active Member

    If anybody plays Words With Friends or anything similar, let me know through PM.
     
  10. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    One of the nice things about chess is that it's pretty straightforward in terms of work you put in equaling gains in skill. Obviously at the world class levels, natural talent begins to matter, but for the most part not so much down in the amateur ranks.
     
  11. Pringle

    Pringle Active Member

    That's what I mean. Looking to put some time and effort into one or the other and see how I progress.
     
  12. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    The idea that Scrabble is even close to Chess in terms of difficulty is, well, ludicrous.

    It's like comparing doing a crossword puzzle to designing a building.
     
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