OK, Log had this idea.
When I was in high school, I started the Chess Club. I also wrote a constitution for that club modeled on the US Constitution, designed to absolutely thwart anyone from actually controlling the "club". We had the high school science teacher as the faculty adviser, and he turned out to be a real live wire. We did more activities, parties, and fun stuff than any other club, and we got to be the biggest club.
Anybody who could beat me in chess became the reigning, if powerless, "President", and I would sit in the high school rec center with six chess boards during lunch hour. It was first come, first served, and I'd play anyone. I'd do more than six games if someone brought their own boards.
So I decided way back then that the purpose of chess was to have fun, and I did not take one minute to make my move. The games moved fast, and ended in the lunch hour. I got beat once by a shy little red head girl with funny glasses. She copied my moves, and I made a mistake, and she seized the advantage, taking my queen. The game did not end in twenty minutes, and though she had never played chess, she did win. The rest of that year I took her to all the school formal dances, and got really stupid. I think I mistook awe for love.
Choose your color. White moves first.
PS. . . . .
I am the "babe" in my momma's family of eleven, eight boys. When I was five I started playing my older brothers. The ones that were still living at home were not quite as interested in chess as I was, and I remember playing the older ones when they came home for the holidays from their college or graduate school studies. I got beat a lot, early on. They eventually became less interested in playing me, as well. I still have one brother who will play me, but he won't let me go home until he wins, so eventually he wins. . . . he's the lawyer in the family. There's also a nuclear physicist Ph.D., and electrochemist, physics, chemistry, and biochemist Ph.D. in the line up. . . . The MBA/chemical engineer who is an executive in a MIC corporation is just too busy with his honey-doos.
I have never had anyone try to let me win. No need. Not even when I was five. It was a matter of fact nobody would just "let me win", and I'm good with that.
This manner of playing chess might not measure up to the infinitely programmed chess methods, but you're welcome to resort to them, and use them to test your moves. . . . I'll do the same, if I get the idea that's what you're doing. . . .
When I was in high school, I started the Chess Club. I also wrote a constitution for that club modeled on the US Constitution, designed to absolutely thwart anyone from actually controlling the "club". We had the high school science teacher as the faculty adviser, and he turned out to be a real live wire. We did more activities, parties, and fun stuff than any other club, and we got to be the biggest club.
Anybody who could beat me in chess became the reigning, if powerless, "President", and I would sit in the high school rec center with six chess boards during lunch hour. It was first come, first served, and I'd play anyone. I'd do more than six games if someone brought their own boards.
So I decided way back then that the purpose of chess was to have fun, and I did not take one minute to make my move. The games moved fast, and ended in the lunch hour. I got beat once by a shy little red head girl with funny glasses. She copied my moves, and I made a mistake, and she seized the advantage, taking my queen. The game did not end in twenty minutes, and though she had never played chess, she did win. The rest of that year I took her to all the school formal dances, and got really stupid. I think I mistook awe for love.
Choose your color. White moves first.
PS. . . . .
I am the "babe" in my momma's family of eleven, eight boys. When I was five I started playing my older brothers. The ones that were still living at home were not quite as interested in chess as I was, and I remember playing the older ones when they came home for the holidays from their college or graduate school studies. I got beat a lot, early on. They eventually became less interested in playing me, as well. I still have one brother who will play me, but he won't let me go home until he wins, so eventually he wins. . . . he's the lawyer in the family. There's also a nuclear physicist Ph.D., and electrochemist, physics, chemistry, and biochemist Ph.D. in the line up. . . . The MBA/chemical engineer who is an executive in a MIC corporation is just too busy with his honey-doos.
I have never had anyone try to let me win. No need. Not even when I was five. It was a matter of fact nobody would just "let me win", and I'm good with that.
This manner of playing chess might not measure up to the infinitely programmed chess methods, but you're welcome to resort to them, and use them to test your moves. . . . I'll do the same, if I get the idea that's what you're doing. . . .
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