Category: Chess

(April 2022 – My thinking on this has evolved quite a bit since I first wrote this in June 2015 – someday I will update, but right now it reads as I originally wrote it.) I haven’t spoken much here about my past life as a tournament chess player. To sum up my prior post…

I don’t recall exactly how I learned to move the chess pieces. Given that I grew up in a working-class suburb of Boston in the late 1970s, and I don’t recall that anyone taught me, I’m sure it was from reading a book in the local library. Around the time I was in fifth grade,…