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 U3A Chess Class—That's Ken MacGillivray standing at the end of the table. |
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Do you enjoy playing chess? There's no better way to keep the grey matter healthy and our Friday chess class, under the excellent leadership of Ken MacGillivray, has benefited many people over the years as Ken shares his wealth of knowledge with his group. It's a top class and if you're interested in improving your chess, I'd recommend it. Of course, not everybody can get to the Friday class but still have an interest in the game. I play on line with an American site called chess.com. They offer rather more than the average site and you can play live chess (where you and your opponent areon line at the same time and make the moves as in a normal game) or turn-based chess in which you make your move, go away and do whatever you need to do, and when your opponent comes on line, perhaps soon, perhaps next day, they make their move and so on. Games like that can take anything from a few hours to a few weeks to finish. It's up to you and your partner. One of the nice things about playing with chess.com is that it's free. Of course, there are several types of premium membership available and if you've been playing there for a while you might decide to pay for one, but there's absolutely no pressure for you to do so. It's up to you. I've been with chess.com for just over two years and, in that time, have seen the membership grow from a few thousand to 792,000 as I write this. The growth has been extraordinary and speaks volumes for the quality of the site. I use the pseudonym "Dozy" and write a popular blog called Dozy's Inferno. (That's me, complete with horns, in the pic at left of this page.) If you're interested, you can click on the chess.com logo to the right of this paragraph either to join the site, or to challenge me to a game. Of course, you may not want to join chess.com but you're still welcome to read the stories in my chess blog. You'll find they're entertaining, informative, off-beat, and not too technical. Just click on the links below to read them. Most of the examples have game boards that you can play through by just clicking an arrow, but a few require you to be able to read chess notation. It's pretty easy, and if you don't know how to read it you can easily learn by CLICKING HERE. —David Evans, Webmaster |
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