I'm italian,
I don't speak much English, before I started playing chess, I had speedcubing as my main hobby (for those who don't know, speedcubing is solving a rubik's cube) every day I trained watching videos to learn an algorithm or for some tips on how to improve my speed .
my maximum record was about 40 seconds, (on the 3x3 rubik's cube)
one day, my father told me to do something else because I was already good, since I was lazy, but I like puzzles, so I started playing chess, then a coincidence happened, the school had started a chess course, so I enrolled in the chess course, I met good people, and I was the best.
so chess is the main hobby I have fun with, but also speedcubing.
ah before I enrolled in the school chess course I met this site, CHESS.COM!
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