I have a friendly message for you :Invitation to become a member for free of my chess friendship-circle. Hello chess friend, . . We all like chess, that’s why we meet each other at the site of chess.com. But, I hope you have other interests too, whatever it is. “Of course”, you say unless you are a professional player and then you have only chess in mind. And me? At first, let me introduce me myself. My name is Jaap van der Laan, I have born as a Dutchman, that’s why my birth language is 1) Dutch. Of course, 2) English is the World language and during my study Economics I have merely read and studied many books in that language. And 3) French? At high school I studied that for four years and almost all my holidays where at the Atlantic coast of France. I once had a super girlfriend who spoke the language very well, because she was an “au pair” in Paris for a while. In those days I learned the language French better and better. A pitty, that relationship went wrong. I was sad for a long time, but (the) life goes further. I learned 4) German language too at school and at holidays. Second I had been for about half a year in Donau Eschingen, I had many lessons in Cobol, a computer language which Kienzle needed for her computers. Probably you know Kienzle because they establish clocks too. The romantic end is, I met a German female when she was at holidays in the Netherlands (Holland). I thought, “wow, what a woman” and I decided to seduce and marry her. I really seduced her and now my home is in Berlin.

. . A SHORTCUT: You can use 1) English, 2) Dutch, 3) French and ….. 4) German to communicate with me. Next, whatever race or color (white, black, yellow, red, green with white spots), you have, you are very welcome to my Worldwide chess-friendship club. The club is for free. I have the luck that I am almost pensioned and that 1) chess, 2) writing, 3) foreign- and birth languages are my hobbies. We have played already, please join my friendship I am just starting this this initiative. Please join my/our friendship club for free and let it be a success. You are welcome

. . With friendly greetings, chess name = jaapaap, site: chess.com

As an extra, how you can reach me? It is very simple…. Go to our game and double-click on my name. Then you see a white 4-angle with my name on it and click “message” (Like I do now to you). Write whatever you want and add your e-mail address to it, you are welcome. With your next message at e-mail I know your address too and then you are a member for free in our friendship chess-circle! If I have 100 members (I have 42 now), then I want to establish further steps.

BYE BYE,

Jaapaap, a Dutch chess friend living in Berlin