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Online Game Message Boards

November 18th, 2009

Avid board game players can go online and tap into a number of helpful resources to improve their playing skills, learn about classic board games news and chat with others about their boardgame hobby. Message boards can become a marketplace for finding new games or pieces as well. Whether your love is chess, checkers and backgammon or Upwords, Cranium and Scattergories, you will learn a lot and enjoy your time spent on these addictive sites.

The chess board game has one of the more popular message boards because this particular community is so dedicated. They play in tournaments around the world, they play board games online against opponents in other countries and they study the chess art to learn new strategies, tactics and techniques needed to win. If you’re interested in connecting with other chess players online, there are a number of websites you can check. Chess Talk (www.chesstalk.com) is based out of Canada and offers a forum and a discussion of products for sale. Chess Cafe (www.chesscafe.com) has chess book reviews, endgame studies and columns about chess. Talk Chess (www.talkchess.com) has forums discussing chess software, machines, players and more. The Eliters Club (www.eliters.com) is a group for elite Yahoo chess players. The Blitz Chess Club (www.blitzchess.org) lets you play games, prize-winning tournaments, take training classes or watch other grand-masters. MSN also has chess-related groups at www.search.msn.com.

Checkers is another strategy board game that attracts large audiences to online boards. Since there are so many different possible algorithms and game plays, people are always looking to practice their skills with online board games or by reading up on strategies and theories in the forums. Yahoo Games has a number of checkers-related groups at www.dir.groups.com: Yahoo Message Boards – Checkers, Yahoo Groups – Chinese Checkers, Yahoo Groups – Draughts, the Y Checkers Club, the Turkish Draughts Drama Club and the Elite Checkers Club. MSN (www.search.msn.com) and Google Groups (www.groups.google.com) are other places to find checkers-related groups created by other avid gamers.

Before joining boardgame message boards, you’ll want to consider several things. First, does the site look aesthetically pleasing to you? Can you easily find your way around? Secondly, what degree of personalization/customization does your membership afford you? For example, some websites let you create an avatar (or virtual player), create a profile, upload photos and maintain a blog, while others are more anonymous with pseudonyms and a points/title system. Thirdly, do you have to pay anything to join this group? Most sites are free, but occasionally you’ll find one that requires a small annual fee. Can you play board games online? Some sites are simply forums for discussion, while others let you play opponents virtually as well. Lastly, are there a lot of people on the message board? You don’t want to spend your time talking at an empty room, after all.

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