Are there other old beginners here?
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Aug 22, 2021
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#102
I’m 73…started playing in January…a Queens Gambit convert. My goal is to reach 1000 this year
I'm 53 ,i learned the moves in 1976 (my best friend taught me and beat me in every single game,he was playing in a club).
After that i lost interest until the early 2000, and played a long time against engines .
But playing against programs is boring ,so i'm here since 2013, and i am still not a good player.
But i have fun!
That's sad news about the Vintage Patzers ... it was mention of them at the end of a podcast that brought me here!
"I have absolutely no aptitude for the game but tragically I can’t stop playing it" -- that's me too!
Aug 22, 2021
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#105
Well I am 70 and was once (in my 20s!) an oK club player - now returning to play I struggle to get a win against a 1400 player - need to brush up on opening and ending theory but the brain isn’t as retentive as it was!
I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And yet I can't play chess LOL! 
agrainofrice wrote:
I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And yet I can't play chess LOL!
So, what were chess pieces made of in 1518?
Was the scotch any good?🤣
Let's start a club?
Aug 22, 2021
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#109
Montagu12 wrote:
So, what were chess pieces made of in 1518?
Walrus Ivory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
Aug 22, 2021
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#110
My brother that is 68 had college buddies who could play blindfold chess in the back of the car on the way back from college that amazes me
I still have BETA. Is that enough to qualify?
Aug 22, 2021
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#114
millerd66 wrote:
if you still have vinyl records or 8 track tapes you are IN
vinyl gets you in, 8-track puts you on the steering committee. Working 8-track installed in Chevy Nova, chair.
uubuuh wrote:
millerd66 wrote:
if you still have vinyl records or 8 track tapes you are IN
vinyl gets you in, 8-track puts you on the steering committee. Working 8-track installed in Chevy Nova, chair.
I once owned a '68 Chevy Nova. Does that count? Cost me the princely sum of $600! 😳
Aug 22, 2021
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#116
uubuuh wrote:
millerd66 wrote:
if you still have vinyl records or 8 track tapes you are IN
vinyl gets you in, 8-track puts you on the steering committee. Working 8-track installed in Chevy Nova, chair.
And listening to ZZ Top Tres Hombres on that 8-track makes you Grand Poobah. Or Mel Torme, just saying…
Aug 22, 2021
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#117
haha loved when a song on an 8 track crossed over the tracks and you heard the click of the tracks changing
Thanks :)
Aug 23, 2021
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#119
Wits-end wrote:
uubuuh wrote:
millerd66 wrote:
if you still have vinyl records or 8 track tapes you are IN
vinyl gets you in, 8-track puts you on the steering committee. Working 8-track installed in Chevy Nova, chair.
And listening to ZZ Top Tres Hombres on that 8-track makes you Grand Poobah. Or Mel Torme, just saying…
Bachman Turner Overdrive for the honorable mention. And Doobies were in the air. The band I mean.
I'm 60 (61 in two weeks) & got into chess with the Spassky-Fischer battle in'72. Fischer brought chess where people could make a living from it; well before cricket & the varied codes of footy here!
For decades, it never occurred to me to check libraries for basic info about chess: i.e. openings, strategy, tactics, endgames & other basics. I bought Nunn's Openings, intro books by Burgess & Schiller, etc. I quickly realised that publishers' are the winners in published literature.
I live on a pension - mainly psychosocial - & I find it hard to play live chess. I'm trying to find the confidence to play live chess (e.g. 15/10 minimum), although I want to. (Ultra-bullet, bullet & blitz hurt my brain just watching!) Hope I haven't over-shared! Cheers from the chilly realms of Oz..
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