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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  There's actually a park down the street with chessboard tables. It's only a 2-minute walk from my house. I've never seen anyone actually playing chess there though.
I like the local club idea. I'll look into that. I found one chess club that meets twice a week in the evenings. It's about a 25-minute drive from me. They have a very minimal website though with no info other than the meeting time and location, so I can't even tell if they're still active: Clark County Chess Club, Las Vegas |
I've played chess pretty frequently in my younger days, ever since I was 8 years old, and I'd pretty much beat almost all of my friends and family on a regular basis. I did find one friend who was able to give me a real challenge and even then, he would only have a 50% chance of beating me, and those games were long drawn out games, though of course I enjoyed them a lot.
A few years ago I went to a local chess club meeting. I told them I had never been to one, and so they assigned a youngin to play me. He beat me so quick and so fast, that I lost all interest in the chess club and never went back.
I'm not really sure I understand your fascination or your interest in learning this game Steve. I read the post, but I'm just not sure I understand the "why learn this". I don't really see any benefits I've gained from chess except that when playing certain other games, controlling the center of the board can be vitally important.
I myself might enjoy playing chess once in a while against people, but I prefer playing other board games. I don't like playing against the computer - it's just not as fun trying to out-think the computer as it is to try to out-think a human opponent.