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| wrc22b 7/27/2004 04:48:58 [ report this post ] |
 Subject: How long have you been playing Chess?Message: about 5 years now,started when i was 16 |
| kumpan 7/27/2004 15:13:56 [ report this post ] | As I'm concerned Message: I've learned this game of my father at the age of about 4 or 5 years. Now I'm .... (look at my personal profile ;-) Always chessfriendly Yours Daniel |
| ninjalord 7/27/2004 15:23:34 [ report this post ] | ninjalord Message: howdy wrc22b. Ive been playing chess for about 4 years. I have started taking it seriously for about 6 months. I've studied openings, middle game and end game. I know this is a game i'll be still playing in 50 years time. There is no better game in my opinion. My goal is to get to master rating and finally GM, even if it takes me 20 years of studying and playing. |
| kai_sim 7/27/2004 15:38:37 [ report this post ] | 6 Message: i started playing chess when i was 6 years old. my grandfather tought me and started taking me to the chessclub when i was 8. when i was 12 i won my first game against him, he was so frustrated that he never played me again. he never intended to let me win ever... |
| ccmcacollister 7/27/2004 15:48:09 [ report this post ] | at 8 Message: by mum . . . put on some Pink Floyd. Actually, in 1968 we went thru several cheapo set Rule Books before it all came together. Such was the state of cheapo set Rules, USA 1968. Even then, it was a shocker at school, when they insisted on getting their King back. :) |
| tag1153 7/27/2004 16:32:35 [ report this post ] | 26 years of thrill and agony:) Message: Anyone remember the old Atari 2600? You know - Pong, Combat, Asteroids.... I started playing Atari's version way back in 1978. The program was so weak that by age 10 or so I could defeat the program's strongest level with relative ease. It is amazing how far technology has come since then, as now I can barely hold my own against the easiest levels of today's chess machines.......My Asteroids rating is ASTRONOMICAL however....NO ONE can beat me;) Regards, Thomas PS - All of you players from the Southeast U.S. looking to get into team play please check out the team Southern Chess:) |
| ketchuplover 7/27/2004 19:12:57 [ report this post ] | Message: I've been playing for 34 years. |
| heuretisk 7/28/2004 01:24:09 [ report this post ] | 10 Months Message: About 10 months by now.. I bought a very nice wood chess set when I was visiting Krakow. When I came home I loged on to some different chess websites and I have been playing online ever since. |
| tigran 7/28/2004 04:47:48 [ report this post ] | 46 years man and boy Message: I learned chess from my father in 1958 after he bought an ornamental bone chess set in Austria, during a family vacation. The set depicts Napoleon's army as the white pieces and the Austrian rebel army led by Andreas Hofer as the black pieces. In the early 1970's I used to play for Norfolk county and my university in my student days at the University of East Anglia. I met Smyslov in London, during the Kasparov-Korchnoi and Smyslov-Ribli candidates matches. Smyslov graciously kissed my mother on the hand! In 1974 I spectated at the Nice (France) Chess Olympiad. The Russian team included Tal, Petrosian, Spassky, Korchoi, Kuzmin and Karpov, who was soon to become world champion, when Fischer declined to defend his title. Good luck to all GK players - young or old, veterans or novices!! I am alway open to challeges! |
| wrc22b 7/28/2004 06:04:37 [ report this post ] | 22B 1/400 Message: hey all ,thanks for responding.some very interesting posts i must say :) my 1st game was actually in a school competition. i did ok i suppose and since then have played mostly online ,mainly zone.com and more recently ICC.bought my first set last year,a glass set which lasted all of 2 days. im now reading 'the inner game of chess' and currently looking to take over the world :)) -i dont remember the atari ,but pong and asteroids most definately |
| mormel12 7/28/2004 13:47:26 [ report this post ] | well Message: i know how to move since i was 8, but i still try to learn the game:) greetings |
| mormel12 7/28/2004 13:47:29 [ report this post ] | well Message: i know how to move since i was 8, but i still try to learn the game:) greetings |
| ccmcacollister 7/29/2004 04:23:10 [ report this post ] | A short to mormel12 & tigran Message: mormel12, That's what I shoulda said ! 8-) [interesting; your Nik would not take, as a link, as first item of post. Until a space put before the id=etc ] tigran; Wow, ain't that some team!! You gotta give it to the Soviet Chess Fed; they could really field em. Considering they guys that stayed Home. The "B" team Botvinnik, Smyslov, Bronstein, Taimanov, Stein, Polugaevsky, Gulko, Kotov could probably play with anyone in the world. Maybe toss in a youthful potential, Kasparov. 70's was a great time for Chess. Hi & Welcome to Chess and/or GK to the newer guys. Sorry to say Chess is incurable you know; but not necessarily fatal :) |
| ninjalord 7/29/2004 06:40:57 [ report this post ] | ccmcacollista Message: What do you mean by "not necessarily fatal"? I'm well and truely addicted and hope it is not fatal at all ;) |
| johnstar 7/29/2004 13:51:44 [ report this post ] | opinions Message: i have known the moves since the 50s. opinions vary as to whether i can play |
| humpty-dumpty 7/30/2004 03:03:37 [ report this post ] | Starting and getting proficiency Message: Dad showed me the moves back in 1964 when I was just a 6 year-old boy, but I can hardly remember if I really liked it then. Later on, in my senior school a pal of mine challenged me for a match and even encouraged to compete in the school championship which I failed, though. Since then I've become pretty addicted to the game of chess and studied it with lots of enthusiasm. My first books on chess were 'Opening Traps and Combinations' by Weinstein and Averbakh's 'Trip to Chess Kingdom'. More serious books came at hand later, but a very acute and attacking style was shaped under the impact of those two initial books. I still like sacrificing and attacking much more than defending in a boresome endgame, alas. However, the endgame technique training should come first according to the chess grand players like Lasker,Capablanca or Tarrasch. |
| wormtail 7/30/2004 12:53:53 [ report this post ] | 6 years Message: Chess is my faverite pass time I've played sice I was 3 years old |
| worldmaster 8/01/2004 11:54:33 [ report this post ] | I have played chess Message: almost as long as I can remember. I come from a chessfamily and learn the game from my grandfather when I was about 5 years old. A few years later I joined a chessclub and that really started my chesscareer. |
| chrisp 8/01/2004 13:11:25 [ report this post ] | A while Message: Learnt to play when I was about 6 or 7. But didn't really play until about 11 years old, when I joined a local club - played there regularly for about 13 years or so. then stopped playing until I joined GK late last year. The site is great and I'm really glad to be back playing again :-) Chris |
| roland_l 8/01/2004 23:22:27 [ report this post ] | Message: My grandfather taught me to play about 15 years ago, and for maybe a year we would get together and play all day about once a week. For some reason, I completely stopped after that ... for almost 12 years. I just picked the game up again about 3 years ago. I'm pretty much an 'on again, off again' player' i.e. I'll get excited about the game and study daily for several months, and then I'll hardly play at all for several months. Hopefully I can quit that, and start to actually improve! |
| spurtus 8/05/2004 14:34:59 [ report this post ] | Message: too long |
| maykx 8/05/2004 23:27:20 [ report this post ] | I'm already 33 but... Message: I think I'm in this game for only 5 years or less........ I don't even remember how I got to learn this game! Weird! |
| oldhamer 8/09/2004 14:09:37 [ report this post ] | Too long! Message: Nah, I love this game! Been playing since about 7 years old (so 9/10 years now) and learned mainly from a Ray Keene book (he was an English GM who now writes for the Times). I went to an Oldham Town team under 9s trial, and did quite well. I was also pointed in the direction of a junior chess club, and have been addicted to chess ever since... |
| paulberg 8/14/2004 13:06:10 [ report this post ] | 11 months ago Message: Started in September of 2003. I was introduced to this site by NEMESIS captain, HurrikaneJae. |
| abegtrup 8/17/2004 10:59:38 [ report this post ] | Chess?! Message: I thought I was playing Austrian Checkers this whole time! Hmmm... no wonder the horse thingies wouldn't move properly! for a proper (and even funnier) response, see our team forum: gameknot.com/fmsg/chess5/1646.shtml look for "Life story of a begtrup" ~ good gaming all. |
| fable 9/05/2004 08:12:41 [ report this post ] | how long have you been playing chess Message: i learned how to play when i was 5 but never really took it seriously untell i stumbled across this site while i was surfing the net so i haven't exactly done any great feats yet |
| sverre 9/06/2004 03:53:52 [ report this post ] | Learned it when I was 6 Message: I've known the game since my grandmother taught it to me but after I had caught up with her in skill I played only rarely until I found Gameknot around january this year. |
| fable 9/06/2004 08:41:31 [ report this post ] | so how are you? Message: so how good are you? |
| fabian 9/10/2004 02:50:41 [ report this post ] | 30 years Message: more or less playin in youth and more now tough |
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