Thinking about it now, I guess it could be devastating if you combine it with Laboratory as you'll have the cards needed to play all of your Spites, however, this is a very bad strategy since after that, you will have a bunch of dead cards since you will no longer want to trash anything and therefore the attack fails.So what you really want to play it in is a deck with lots of Worker's Villages/Markets/whatever, so that you can buy lots of Copper and trash it with the Spite.
Silver Bullet
$4
Attack-Duration
Trash a silver. If you do, all opponents discards down to 3 and on your next turn +2 Cards.
Like it, but maybe it should be +$2 as well, to replace the silver's value from your hand?
My friends and I have toyed around with the idea of having a card that grants a lot of money, or cards, at the price of actions that you currently have. We never got around to designing an actual card, but the we toss it around every now and then.That's difficult to make work within the context of the rules as they are written.
He can make a living almost entirely as a player!? (That said, key word is "almost"). And he's a grandmaster, which helps.He does a bit of coaching, but it's very much a sideline - the vast majority of his income comes from playing in tournaments.
Of course, it's much better in Europe, but I don't think THAT much better.I think you'd be surprised. England has a thriving international scene, and it's not the best European country for chess by a long way.
And I find it quite unlikely that a Grandmaster would be on this site - by sheer unprobability, I doubt you are one. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.True. I am a mere International Master.
Hello. Jack Rudd is my name on here, on BoardGameGeek, on Isotropic and on various other places.
I sometimes claim to be a professional chess player, for given values of "professional".
This intrigues me, because, as far as I know (and I know several titled players), there are maybe several dozen professional players in the world, and less than 20 (probably closer to 10) in the Americas. I'm guessing that our definition differ not so much of "professional" but more on "chess PLYAER" as opposed to what I call chess professionals - people who probably play for some money but more write and, especially, teach.
I know serious bridge players remember pretty much all the cards as they go by - a skill so daunting to those who can't do it - but I'm not sure if they could tell you how.An occasional bridge player writes: I tend to try to track how many cards in a suit have been played, and whether the big cards have gone. So, for example, if I have A-K-Q-x-x of hearts and my partner has x-x-x (where x refers to a small card; its exact value is not relevant), I can test the suit by playing the Ace and King. If both opponents follow to both rounds, I know that four enemy cards have gone, I started with eight, and so there's just one left of the original thirteen - which I can capture with my queen, promoting my two small hearts to winners. In such a situation, I'd probably be able to tell you that the hearts split 3-2, but I wouldn't be able to say which opponent had played which heart.
That's actually one of my big weaknesses: I tend to write off University, Workshop, and Ironworks, but sometimes they prove critical (like here). I should focus more often on when such cards are essential to maintaining an engine: kudos!Well, here is a good example of an engine that relied on University to build it up. Multiple spammables at the £5 level, yum.
