learn to play chess

Taking online lessons :-) , I joined a really great website for this, so, I’m gonna see how I do with the online lessons, I’ll try to visit my cousins more, they love to play chess, and will get tips everywhere to improve once I learn {grins}

Btw… The website is www.chess.com (duh…! Hehehe)

In 1997 I learned the basic moves and played a few games, but that was it. I have been wanting to pick this up again for years but somehow never get around to doing it.

i am not good at it, at all, but nice to kind of know what’s going on.

chess saved my life. On the night of the flying blood plasma bats, i engaged in a euphoric pawns game. Next thing I knew, the transdimentional vortex opened, glistening me with a thick and creamy coat of specialness that involved my vulva tripping over to sesame street and looking to Ben and Jerry to get Bartyle and James’s address for a killer check!!

chess saved my life. i feared one day that i would wake up on the wrong side of my computer display, due to days of playing wOw. Chess forced me to go to work and socialize!!!

my dad taught me when i was, like, 8 or 10 while we were on vacation

... but I don’t know how to play.

-Los

I dislike the game, it’s SUCH a fundamental, everybody should at least know HOW to play.

I’ve tried to learn but never stuck with it for more than one lesson. Anyone else in the same boat out there? Or is there anyone who teaches chess? How did you pick it up? Is there a good online resource for learning? Or did you have someone teach you?

I feel silly that I haven’t learned before! Now my mission is to become an expert!