Chess is requiring all my brains/time and I want to play Civ1

[stwils]

My first love has always been Civ. Especially Civ1 (and those great succession games I played in Civ 3.)

So I got my old laptop out and fired up Civ 1. It was great, but I realized I was robbing all my study time from Chess. And so I could not relax and enjoy playing.

There doesn't seem to be enough time for both for me right now. And chess is really requiring a lot of tourney play and especially study and online tactics training.

How do you guys balance your time with chess and Civ? (Obviously you love Civ or you would not have found your way to this forum.)

stwils

 

[Narz]

Ah, Civ I! I don't play Civ anymore (only ever played I & II both of which I loved).

I think what gets me with chess is the simplicity of it & the fact that it doesn't require a machine to play. Big into board games lately, the only other online game that sucks up my time these days, probably more than chess is Cities & Knights of Catan, a Settlers expansion, that I play on this site (which, IMO, is the best done site on the Internet for what it is & free on top of it ).

I also like that I can goto any big city in America (and probably parts of Europe) and find a place to catch some games. Playing chess in the park when I was studying Spanish in Mexico was an integral part of my experience there (met a pretty girl who was watching me, bonded with the locals without being able to speak very well, enjoyed the air & energy of the park whilst engaging in a fun activity).

I remember in college my buddy saw me playing Civ I and he said, "come on, lets play chess" and I said "nah, not right now, why should I play chess instead of Civ?" and he said "you can't make money playing Civ!" (referring to street hustlers in NYC who make money playing 5-minute games, of course me & him lost more than we ever made there but I did later make some in tournaments ).

So for me it's the competition, the fact that so many play, the social aspect of it & the fact that it exists on it's own outside the highly addictive computer realm (though sadly 99.9% of my play this year has been just online).

I also love the momentum of correspondence, it's great because even when I'm too tired/distracted/busy to make my moves I end up checking in pretty much every day.

 

[Harvin87]

hehe.. at the moment I find myself in that very same particular issue... somethimes I dont know wheter to play civ or chess.... but normally I play civ ... early morning