My now deceased great-grandfather, Robert Fischer taught me how to play. Not the neurotic world champion one, but I still think it is cool to tell people I grew up under the tootlidge of Bobby Fischer :)
I would imagine that Robert Fischer is a fairly common name. It's still pretty cool.
A friend taught me to play when I was 12, He didn't know that you had to say check so games ended in surprises
I thought it was impolite and an insult to the other player to say check in OTB.
I thought it was impolite and an insult to the other player to say check in OTB.
whaa? who told you that?
you dont have to say check but if you say it its not an insult.
I forget where I got that, but I remember that some book I read claimed that you should not say check because, "It's an insult to their intelligence". Maybe it's wrong. I don't know.
i have two brothers who are around 16 years bigger than me.
They had always a war between them in a chess,they are prety equal.
From my childhood i saw them playing chess and automatically i learnt the game.
I was raised by apes in the jungle...they also taught me chess
I kid,I kid....my sister taught me at the age of about 10.but only about a year ago have I started to play it seriously.
I learned the basics from my Dad, then found an old chess book and taught myself, then I had a very good chess teacher.
I still teach myself.
my brain............. hehehehehe
I forget where I got that, but I remember that some book I read claimed that you should not say check because, "It's an insult to their intelligence". Maybe it's wrong. I don't know.
I was told that it was a courtesy to your opponent to let him know that his king is in danger by saying "check".
I agree you should say check. When I played a lot of OTB, I always thought it was a little discourteous when my opponent DIDN'T say check.
Unless you're very weak you ought to know when you're in check 100% of the time, excepting severe time troubles.
Telling someone who isn't that weak that they are in check is impolite if only because you are speaking to them during the game, and disturbing the opponent in this way is against the rules. If other people are playing beside you, as in a tournament, you are also bothering them.
In other words, don't do it. If the opponent really needs such help touch the top of his king after the check.
i dont remember really, but i do love playing chess since childhood. problem is, i do not have the time to do it in the past years. i am confident that chess.com will really help me!
I learned at 6 from the instructions that came with my first chess set, one of those little plastic peg sets from Hong Kong--the ones that went for 59 cent or so. Still got the set!
I was bored one rainy day in about grade 5 and found a chess set in the basement. I taught myself using the rules printed on the cardboard box the set came in. Soon deduced the Ruy Lopez (well, the first 3 moves anyway) and the Bird. Parents bought me a computerized set that Christmas so I'd have someone to play against. :P
When I was five my grandmother would go to market every week on a Wednesday. Left alone with my grandfather he would beat me. When she returned and saw what had happened she gave me a beating too, even more ruthlessly than my grandfather had. She said this is the only way I will learn in life. They would beat me soundly for the next few years, but as I grew stronger I would start to to beat them in return. At school I carried the shame of how I was beaten by my grandparents so every chance I got I would take it out on my fellow students. As I beat this one kid, a group gathered to watch. Attracted by the commotion, my maths teacher (that is math teacher if you are from the US) came over to see what was happening. He decided to teach me a lesson, and gave me the beating of my life. I recieved a solid thrashing. He beat me relentlessly in a way my grandparents never had. Humiliated and broken, I vowed never to be beaten so badly. Now I am stronger and older I dream of finding that old maths teacher (Mr Rath!!) and beating him good.
Beat your child, people. One day he will thank you for it.
Before the internet, I got tired of playing minesweeper, and switched to some weird game I thought was checkers but turned out to be BattleChess. After many super awesome fight animations and immediate losses, I finally learned the basic moves. Stopped playing for years, up until about 6 months ago when I started playing online at home one day. Bought a couple books, and now I'm re-learning how to play...but this time, with a little more thought.
My 6th grade homeroom teacher, Irving Saltzman at PS 198, NYC. in 1966. Thanks, Mr. S., for that gift. Finally got serious about it last year and have loved it.