I played chess when I was younger. I liked how complicated it was . . . A guy I knew beat me with Scholar's Mate, which frustrated me, so I got some books and studied. I later was a member of three different local chess clubs. I took it up seriously within the past year after five aunts and uncles died of Alzheimer's Disease. I figure intense brain activity from chess can help reduce my risk of Alzheimer's, and there is research that supports that. Now I'm hooked. I love the game.
Why are you playing chess?
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Jan 11, 2017
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#23
I think you either love it or you don't. I'll never be that good but I still love to play. Every think about the game is in line with what I like.
i played a guy who had alzheimers once he kept thinking it was my move instead of his imagine how many free moves i got to play i wonder who won that game hmmmm lol
Jan 12, 2017
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#25
Judging from your ratings, you probably need extra moves to beat handicapped people.
IMpatzer wrote:
i played a guy who had alzheimers once he kept thinking it was my move instead of his imagine how many free moves i got to play i wonder who won that game hmmmm lol
Intellectual challenge and desire to learn for me. I find both addicting.
The competitive nature of the game is fun. I take pleasure from it.
That goes for many others, I guess.
kkl10 wrote:
Intellectual challenge and desire to learn for me. I find both addicting.
The competitive nature of the game is fun. I take pleasure from it.
That goes for many others, I guess.
Funny posting, you made my day 
i want playing chess because i liket
"The right standpoint is to play for pleasure, and do not think that pleasure is proportional to skill. The greatest bunglers are constantly deriving the greatest pleasure from chess, they go into ecstasies of delight when their Knight forks a King and Queen.
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. It is not everyone who can write a play, or build a bridge, or even make a good joke. But in chess everyone can, everyone must, be intellectually productive and so can share in this select delight.
I always have a slight pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy."
Siegbert Tarrasch in the Author's Preface to the The Game of Chess (his chess teaching masterpiece)
deadly_gladiator wrote:
FUCK YOU ALL CHEATERS !!!!!
Hello, how are you?
I'm fine.
What the hell?
I love chess, not my rating. I resign 10 games, then challenge myself to build it back up to 1000. People cheat here, or get outside help. For 50% of people who play long games are cheaters. But that only matters to someone who cares about their ratings. Playing with a cheater is just a bigger obstacle to overcome.
But, um, stop cheating.
But, um, stop cheating.
im learning chess as a productive way to spend my time and train my brain ^-^ spending hours on youtube and xbox is only but so fun and at the end of the day i get nothing out of it. But chess is different you dont need to purchase dlc and its based on skill not how much money spend.
(i play dominoes too for the same reasons but i prefer chess because it has more strategy)