Learning Chess
by Toby - July 29th, 2010.Filed under: Life. Tagged as: chess, Time Management.
One of the things I’ve wanted to do for a while is learn to play chess.
I’ve started playing against Scott, my brother-in-law, at Sound Chess. It’s a chess-by-email website that I can’t recommend enough. (You actually play on the website, and it sends an email to your opponent that it’s their turn to move.
And now, after a bit of wondering what to do with my Facebook time, I’ve resolved to invest it in training with the Chessmaster program. It offers lessons with Josh Waitzkin (star of “Searching For Bobby Fisher,” which I reread in the airplane on the way over here) as well as a virtual, ‘matched opponent’ to practice playing against. That’s kind of cool.
The thing is, now that I’m being honest with myself, I wonder if I have what it takes. It’s a lot of concentration, and I’m finding it hard. I like to think that I can train it the way I can train running.
I guess we’ll see.