For one, I am thankful for the great resource that chess.com can be. I mean: where else can you "chat" chess, play people around the world, and have personal and friendly forums like this one, all in one day? Oh sure pretty much all chess sites do that - but chess.com is my favorite. At the very least, thanks for the chess resource that the internet is. Just take puzzles for example: I can just solve some right now - years ago I would of needed to wait for the newspaper, or a chess book (ah, how times change...)
Happy Thanksgiving!! What are you thankful about chess?
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I came back to chess early in 2017 after being away from the game since the 1980's.
I was like Rip Van Winkle and waking up after a very long sleep.
So number one, I am thankful (and surprised) that chess is NOT dead. I really thought it was dead or on the throes of being dead. Computers had beaten Kasparov. Plus video games are way more enthralling.
So to come back to the game and find out that scholastic chess is thriving was a big jolt. I remember in 2017 walking in a small hotel room marveling at the digital chess clocks, and then asking the TD what the little device was that some players had instead of score sheets. He said it was a ply counter. A what?? A ply counter. What's a ply? Receive answer. How much does one of those things cost? What??? Seriously, people pay that much!
And around that time I discover chess.com. What a great site. So I'm thankful to chess.com for all its wonderful features. I wasn't around for V2. So V3 was all I knew. And I thought it was fine.
What are you thankful to chess for?