Old man’s chess thinking.

I have played chess over 60 years. As yougster I played some classic chess over the board but while living in a small place I started correspondence chess in early years also. Then came active working years with much travelling and chess got smaller place in the life. Also the growing family took more time. In these same years computers conquered big amount chess boards at homes. This development I did not love att all because in my chess world human contact face to face or thru postcards had always been my thing. Luckily internet came and possibility easy ways to meet human opponents again. This was my thing and I started to play again about 2 decades ago. Also correspondence chess jumped to my life again last year.

My biggest idol of all chess masters is Paul Keres becauce he is one of best chess analycer all time. He talked much about the value of analyzing and also wrote exellent books about chess analyzing. In my chess thinking analyzing work after games is almost equally interesting as playing games. This passion to analyzing means that I do not like fast games which give not anough time to analyze the game while playing. I want apsolutely to play games with longer thinking times than fast games. 30 minutes games are apsolutely too short for me but sometimes play these because it is not easy to find opponent for longer games.

I courage all to analyze games as much as possible and find this way a new and interesting part of chess world. One do not have to be a master to find the brilliance of ingenious chess games.

Mauritzvaari2