"Do you still play chess yourself?"
"Do you still play chess yourself?" This is the question I get the most when meeting chess fans, colleagues or other people at top tournaments when I'm reporting there for Chess.com.
The answer is: sometimes.
I hardly play tournaments these days but I do try to play as many games as possible for my club Caïssa/Eenhoorn (Hoorn, the Netherlands), which usually comes down to 6-7 games per season, which runs September-April. We're talking about the Dutch league.
Somehow, nobody ever asks me: Do I still play decent games?
The answer would be: sometimes. Once, every five years or so?
In my last game, played on 25 November, for the first time in years I played a game that is worth showing. A game that I enjoyed playing, and showing to others.
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
Peter's first book The Chess Revolution is out now!
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