learn to play chess

I’m learning to play, but I find it quite difficult. I dont know how much time it will take me, but I’ll cross this one out when I get beat someone :)

My brother in law told me he knew how to play…Maybe he can help me!

Learn to play chess.

My friend Nicolas began to teach me the other week. I know what all the pieces do, it’s just a case of tactics, thinking in advance and seeing things going on on the board now! I’d also recommended Babas Chess which is a free program that allows you to play chess with other people online :) Nicolas is back in Madrid now but this allows us to play online. It’s pretty cool, I’m obviously getting destroyed at the minute, most of the people on there seem to know what they’re doing! But if you’d like a game with another newbie you can find me on there as ‘ricardigan’. Just gotta keep practising now, I guess. I also picked up an old book about chess from a book-giveaway-fair thing about a year ago, may have to find that again.

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. 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.