“Never play chess with a pigeon. The pigeon just knocks all the pieces over. Then shits all over the board. Then struts around like it won.” You could say that’s what Hillary Clinton tried to do. She tried to play chess with a pigeon. Probably, never before has a candidate for. The term is generally used in conjunction with an explanation that it derives from the image of a pigeon engaging in a chess match by “knocking the pieces over, crapping on the board, and flying.

Game Pigeon has a bunch of different options to play.

The iMessage extension lets you play 24 different multiplayer games, such as Cup Pong, Dots & Boxes, Checkers, Chess, Sea Battle, Four in a Row, and more.

On Bubble Witch Saga, players try to beat each other's scores.

In the iMessage version, you have to get the highest score possible by matching three bubbles of the same colour. You can also download the separate app version of this game.

Cobi Darts lets players try to beat their high scores.

Sharpen your dart-throwing skills from the comfort of your home. Cobi Darts lets you play different modes with friends, or just throw some darts on your own.

Letter Fridge is easy to play at any age.

The point of the game is to try and make as many words using the different magnets in a minute. The person you're playing against then has to beat your high score.

Letter Fridge is also available as a standalone app but it's a bit different. In this version, you try to pass each level by solving a crossword using the letters on the fridge to make words.

Pictoword is similar to Pictionary.

Made for any age, Pictoword will give players a specific word and you need to draw two different pictures to help others guess the answer.

Words for iMessage is similar to Words With Friends and Scrabble, but with a few fun twists.

Words for iMessage gives players bonus tile spaces at random for new games. Just like Words With Friends and Scrabble, the person with the highest score at the end wins.

Mr. Putt lets you play on four different courses: Frost, Blaze, Nebula, and Retro.

Whether you choose to play with one other person or a group, the objective is to bounce the ball off walls to make it into the hole in the lowest number of strokes possible.

Similar to Cobi Darts, Cobi Arrows is harder than it looks.

If you're not in the mood to play darts or hoops, the point of this archery game is to hit the target with as many arrows in 30 seconds.

Moji Bowling is an easy arcade-style game.

Unlike other bowling games, the ball and pins make fun little faces while playing. The pins will even taunt players until they are knocked down.

The game also lets you play practice rounds alone and has different pins, balls, and bowling alleys you can unlock the more you play.

The point of Cobi Hoops 2 is to score as many baskets as you can in 30 seconds.

How to play poker on game pigeon rules. Just like the other Cobi games mentioned, this version is about shooting hoops and seeing if your opponent can beat your score.

Game Pigeon Chess Drawing

Show your friends who the real master is by playing 8 Ball Pool.

Pigeon Playing Chess

If you don't want to play this game via Game Pigeon, it's also available as its own extension. This two-player game lets you play a practice round before starting a match of pool with an opponent.

You can also download the standalone app if you become obsessed with the game.

Skip the classic board game and just play Yahtzee with Buddies.

Challenge your loved ones and roll the dice to see who will get the highest score in this two-player game.

The subject of today's discussion might sound bizarre for most of you. Indeed, all the chess coaches as well as books, magazines and Web sites teach you how to win your games and here we talk about when to resign? And yet, I think any experienced chess player knows what I am talking about. Just look at the following games :

'So what?', many of you would ask, 'we see this kind of games every day in our chess club'. Indeed, this kind of 'endgame' where a lonely King fights practically the whole opponent's army is very common in the games played in parks or in your local Elementary School championship. But unfortunately all the games above were played in the Invitational US Championship (an adult Championship, mind you!) and the 'Player X' played all the games till a checkmate regardless of the position and the opponent's title. Some of you might call the last 15 - 20 moves in every game just a waste of time, but look at the situation from a different angle. In all the games the opponents of the 'Player X' were Masters or International Masters, so playing out this kind of a position is like saying ' I know that you have a ginormous material advantage , but are you good enough to checkmate me with an extra Queen?'. Some people probably can get insulted.

Another extreme is when a chess player resigns too early. Sometimes he does it (or at least has the temptation to do it) for a reason. Look for example at my own game:

After Kramnik played 18.f4! (somehow I totally missed this simple move), I immediately realized what happened, but of course it was too late. With absolutely no counter play in the center or on the Queen's Side, Black can only helplessly wait till White annihilates him on the King's Side. Black's position is absolutely hopeless, but it was a Super Tournament (Karpov won it) and we played in a theatre packed with spectators. This explains my comment to this game published in the New in Chess magazine: 'I should have resigned on the 18th move but was afraid that spectators wouldn't understand.' By the way, I think professional chess players should never forget that sometimes we need to play even absolutely clear positions for other people. Like in my last week's story I kept playing an absolutely drawn endgame for my wife (http://www.chess.com/article/view/should-your-girlfriendwife-play-chess), here I played a completely lost position for the chess fans who wanted to see the beautiful finish of Kramnik's positional masterpiece. So I thought that I had the right to resign only when it was absolutely clear that my King was going to get checkmated very soon.

But sometimes chess players resign a position which is not lost. Moreover, there are some examples where a game was resigned in a completely winning position! Here is probably the most infamous and old example where Black resigned in a winning position:

Pigeon On A Chess Board

So, what is a proper point to resign a game? As always the answer is : 'it depends!' If you are a beginner, then you should never resign: Play till checkmate. First of all, your opponent, who is probably a beginner himself, may possibly stalemate you despite (or because of) his huge material advantage. But even if he does beat you, you'll get another lesson how to convert a winning advantage in to a win. But if you are an advanced chess player, then playing every single game till your opponent actually checkmates you is not the strategy I would recommend. Use your common sense because only you can decide what is the exact point when there is absolutely no hope to save the game. Just ask yourself from time to time what is the chance my opponent doesn't win this position. If the answer is 'only if he has a heart attack right now,' then probably it is time to quit.

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