This is my BGOL chess story,

I started playing chess with my father around age 8 or so, I don't remember the exact age but I was young. I grew up on games like Risk, Axis and Allies, Stratego, Hearts, Bridge and Chess + many more. I had to teach the people I played against, cuz they were my games. Finally in H.S. I befriended a new kid from outta town (Boston), and he could actually beat me at chess very easily, and every other game I played with him. It drove me crazy. He graduated with 4.0 and was Senior class president. He was a brain, kinda nerdy, but he was my best friend. The games we had together were always one sided with him winning. Again I repeat, this drove me crazy, cuz I was no dummy and I was a gamer. (I'm talking about before playstation, shit - before nintendo, we had atari's, texas instruments commodore 64 and intellivisions, but the game play just wasn't as fun as playing with the other toys (electric race tracks, bikes, action figures on hot light bulbs... lol)).

After H.S. finding a chess game proved near impossible. No Dad or friend to play as we all went seperate ways. My need for chess lay dormant and unsatisfied (despite a few games here and there whenever I meet someone who had a chess board) untill I found yahoo chess around 1995.

In 2002 I found myself working a graveyard call center shift. There was no call volume as I was taking about 3 five minute calls per 8 hour shift. We had internet connection at work, and I went to town with chess and search engines. A lot of the stuff I found seemed to be written is strange languages with no translations. Untill a co-worker turned me on to Bobby Fisher's only book he ever wrote titled, Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess. (Anasatsusha80 has posted it in BGOL chess threat). It's a book of diagramed chess puzzels where the reader is asked fighure out checkmating combinations. Some are 3 to 4 moves out, but IMPOSSIBLE to stop. --that means game over in 4 moves and the opponent can not stop it no matter what, of course these situations usually appear somewhere near the mid game and end game.

I never have finished the book, but my understanding for the game began to florish. It is written very simply. I promise you will like it.

So now I usually beat everyone with a hands on board, but I still lose about 1/2 my games on the internet.

BGOL and I met in 1998, I chose posterzinc. posterzinc died fairly quickly. I didn't have my own personal internet connection again till 2008, when I started lurking BGOL again to see if it was as brutal as it was before (what happened to H8 me now?), Now I'm gaming with a message board once again (Not only was I the PosterzInc street team leader, I was also their chess champ in PI tourney play).

So far on this web sight I have enjoyed the games and players. Thanx everybody.

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