"Bonnie" Renee Chaney aka ChessChaney is from Texas. I began playing Chess late in life after I saw our chess pieces on an episode of the original Hawaii 5.0 which aired on Me TV in October of 2017. I credit the villain, for his performance that day, who was talking to his queen as if she had all the answers to his problems. He was pouring his heart out to her when I turned to look at the t.v. and there she was the exact piece of our own chess set my husband had been given by an old childhood friend. Yep, our queen was staring in her own episode of Hawaii 5.0

I knew our set was old but not that old and had it not been for that episode I would probably never had been intrigued enough to learn the game. Nevertheless, after that day I had to know why that villain was consulting our queen, why he would talk to a chess piece in the first place and if he confided in her that much there must be something I'm missing to that game, it was then and there Ihad to know what it was all about.

Soon after I had my husband teach me the rules and we started to play regularly, and it wasn't until I had lost over a hundred times and had tears in my eyes did he share his secrets, the reasoning behind his moves, which eventually led to my first win! It was then and there on that day my love for chess began. It's a fascinating game with endless combinations win, The only regret was I didn't learn it sooner. it wasn't until he couldn't play any longer did I discover the benefits of online chess. Since then I've become a member of the US chess federation, have established a rating online and am looking forward to my first official tournament. Thanks to chess.com I can play people all over the world!