Is there anywhere to have a game of chess in Pattaya?

There use-to be a group of old guys who would go to the beach every day for years and years and play chess sitting under the shade trees on the beach...

 

When all the seatting got removed and the shade trees got cut down they moved to the lower court yard a Central Festival for a few years......And then they just kind of disappeared......I have not seen them for a long time now.....

 

Those guys were really into chess, they were playing on the beach all day every day....

Edited October 31, 20214 yr by redwood1

7 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

There use-to be a group of old guys who would go to the beach every day for years and years and play chess sitting under the shade trees on the beach...

 

When all the seatting got removed and the shade trees got cut down they moved to the lower court yard a Central Festival for a few years......And then they just kind of disappeared......I have not seen them for a long time now.....

 

Those guys were really into chess, they were playing on the beach all day every day....

A bunch of old guys played for years and then disappeared........ I wonder what happened to them ????

1 minute ago, ThaIrish Sean said:

A bunch of old guys played for years and then disappeared........ I wonder what happened to them ????

The lower courtyard of festival was a very very poor replacement compared to where they use to play on the beach.....I bet they found a better place to play....

2 hours ago, redwood1 said:

And then they just kind of disappeared......I have not seen them for a long time now..

En passant....?

12 hours ago, jacko45k said:

En passant....?

That is what I was alluding to and it went over somebody's head..... Not you though ????

Pattaya should be big for chess.

I don't know how many times in walking street I've had a queen gambit

2 hours ago, ThaIrish Sean said:

Pattaya should be big for chess.

I don't know how many times in walking street I've had a queen gambit

Been in The Castle?

19 hours ago, ThaIrish Sean said:

A bunch of old guys played for years and then disappeared........ I wonder what happened to them ????

They used to play on Jomtien beach, so about now they are on Koh Larn;

In seriousness, I was in Central and noticed some of the unused stalls had something about playing chess there.

Pre-pandemic there was a group playing daily outside Carls Jr in Central

2 minutes ago, bang saen guy said:

Pre-pandemic there was a group playing daily outside Carls Jr in Central

Yep, that's the spot.

there was Frank, an older German guy who  used to live in agated community pre-covid in Jomtien.  Probably a master at some point in his life. There was A Norwegian named Thor who played on Jomtien and Daniel from Belgium.....I wonder if any of the are still around..

 

 Myself, I am waiting to return round an if Things get more or less back to nrmal

17 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Been in The Castle?

Us chess snobs call it a rook ????

I had the queen one knight in the castle after a pawn salad.

The bishop has a dirty habit, he was watching us

5 hours ago, ThaIrish Sean said:

Us chess snobs call it a rook

But jumping with the King Club  is referred to as castling!

23 hours ago, bang saen guy said:

Pre-pandemic there was a group playing daily outside Carls Jr in Central

I was in Central Festival yesterday, this is on the 4th floor towards the front of the mall.  Side note Carl's Jr is no longer there/boarded up.

 

That is a shame. Good burgers

2 hours ago, bbko said:

I was in Central Festival yesterday, this is on the 4th floor towards the front of the mall.  Side note Carl's Jr is no longer there/boarded up.

 

I liked Carl Jr Burgers....

21 hours ago, jacko45k said:

But jumping with the King Club  is referred to as castling!

Castling is where the king and the rook exchange places. The king moves two places and the rook jumps him

I believe I saw Carls Jr in the T 21 Mall. 

Yesterday saw 3 games in progress at Central Festival on the ground floor, down the escalator from 2nd Rd entrance, then on the right just before Dunkin Donuts.

Soi 11? Thapraya ...the soi leading to big Russian  Market running parallel with Pratumnak  soi 6..A bar there..

10 minutes ago, champers said:

Yesterday saw 3 games in progress at Central Festival on the ground floor, down the escalator from 2nd Rd entrance, then on the right just before Dunkin Donuts.

Thanks mate