Chess

[yeahwho]

I have never seen any reason or logic to play most every board game out there all of my life. I just happened across this episode of 60 minutes a few months ago, Mozart of Chess: Magnus Carlsen (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7414214n&tag=cbsnewsMainColumnArea.11) and became fascinated.

The next day I tried out the Windows operating systems games "Chess Titans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Titans)" and found out I was ignorant of all things chess. I've been playing the game obsessively the past two months and admittedly suck but I'm slowly building from suck to OK.

It's an awesome game and it has actually help my powers of concentration unlike any other activity in my life.

That's all I got to say about that.

[Kid Presentable]

I'd love to learn how to play.

[Freebasser]

The trouble with chess is that there's learning how to play and then there's learning how to win. I never got to stage 2 :(

[Guy Incognito]

a coupla friends were really good and i learnt how to play years ago but i lacked the attention span.was never able to keep an up to date picture of the board in my mind and made silly mistakes and bought a playstation instead(y)

[yeahwho]

My hand eye coordination and motor reflexes have always been awesome. Video games are cool but they really fuck with my already insane untreated adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Guess what? I got a fever! And the only prescription.. is more chess!

Fuckin' rooks, queens, kings, bishops are sick.

[Randetica]

i used to know how to play two types of chess but i was never good at it, yet my grandpa was a chess pro, he won trophies etc. i think it was the only hobby he had, there wouldnt been time for more hobbies anyway, chess was his life

[yeahwho]

i think it was the only hobby he had, there wouldnt been time for more hobbies anyway, chess was his life

I can see that happening to really excellent chess players, the ones who compete on a pro level or join clubs. I would amazed if it happened to me because I'm so random at everything in life.

That's why I'm playing everyday to try and work on my lost focus and concentration skills. It will take some serious brain work to put me in any sort of competitive chess mode.

It's fun just looking for that area hidden away in the head though. Every once in awhile I catch a glimpse of it and it's wild.

[TAL]

i used to know how to play two types of chess but i was never good at it, yet my grandpa was a chess pro, he won trophies etc. i think it was the only hobby he had, there wouldnt been time for more hobbies anyway, chess was his life

I have chess trophies from before I was 10. I was in a chess club in Sweden, not so much after we moved to Finland.

[TimDoolan]

I have very fond memories learning the finer points of chess at a camp in Beaver Dam wisconsin. A bunch of the intellenctual camp counselors congregated in a small rec room, playing chess and cards and talking about life. A few of them took me under their wing and a turned from a novice to a pro.
I'm very dangerous now. No one wants to play me, not even my dad who taught me how to play. Very sad.
But I can appreciate movie scenes like in the beggining of From Russia With Love.

[yeahwho]

Still bangin' away at the boards, still a minimum of 3 games per day and up to a dozen. I usually have an app or website going at all times.

Had a game last night that lasted a whole shift on nightwatch (in between moving and making widgets down at the widget factory) that lasted over 10 hours. The guy I was playing with kids used to be in chess clubs and he himself was a whiz when he was younger.

Anyway he was 64 years old and hadn't played in about a dozen years so I relented and played him. I actually won, in the end I had a castle and a queen and he was down to his King.

Check Mated him in 8A after much fear of a stalemate.

I know it is geekier than any activity i can think of but that was an awesome win last nite.