ICB Where did you learn to play chess mate?

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Yeah well I don't play checkers beyond knowing the rules but you beat me easily about 8 times in a row and kept scoring multiple hits.

I thought you must be very good although I've never learnt how to play it and it may be an easy game to master, I know computers have now solved checkers completely so it's probably an easy game to learn in comparison with chess.

But chess is a very difficult game to learn without deep study as there is so much strategy to learn. It's not even about looking many moves ahead really, usually its positional factors such as pawn structure, weak squares, open files, potential outposts, good kinght against bad bishop etc that factor and lead a strong player into making his decision, a top level player doesn't sit and analyse many many combinations of moves or look far ahead unless it's a tactical situation like calculating an exchange or a sacrifice.

Did you study openings, pawn structures, effective piece placement and attacking strategy or does it all just come naturally to you?

I've been playing seriously since October last year in club competition and started studying the game since April last year when I started playing Legion and I'm still only a beginner player comparitively, about 100 ECF rating, I believe CGM has beaten master level players, which would be around 200 level so to beat him in a game is a remarkable feat considering you don't play, certainly comparable to me whitewashing you in checkers.

What openings do you play?

My teacher gave me a chess book i used to look at the openings and ETC. And when i got a computer i looked at Grandmaster's games and used to study them, but i got bored of Chess to be honest and as i said i started to concentrate on other things.

Believe it or not my mom actually taught me Checkers she isn't a bad player, and when i was little i used to play with her before i went to school and ETC.

I then played some games online and got a 2100's rating. If your good at Chess you should be pretty good at Checkers, but its still not as easy as you think.

But i always enjoyed Checkers more even though i used to like the tactical side of Chess, but as i said if you ever want a game of either game once a week or something let me know. We can even get a few of the other Saddo members, i also played Killersheep at Chess aswell.

I can play speed Chess and Checkers i did used to play some 1 minute games of Checkers, and 2 minute games of Chess.