My love for chess has recently been rekindled (by recently I mean within the last few days), but in sort of a half-assed way... I just moved into a new apartment, about an hour drive from my old one, and about a hour and a half drive from the casino where I used to play poker almost every weekend and win some girlfriend-spending money... Well, with gas up to about sixty dollars an ounce, there's no way I'm making that drive, so I've basicaly had to lay off poker for a while and I need something else to feed my competitive habit, so I've returned to that other game my dad taught me as a kid. 😉
Well, today while I was in my old garage loading up the last of the crap that will continue it's days rotting in my new garage, I lifted up a box of containing some old cooking grill thing that I used once or twice in the last year or so..... and underneath this box, to my astonishment, were five books that I've never seen before in my life. Here are the books:
"Logical Chess: Move by Move" by Irving Chernev (1957)
"Modern Chess Openings" by Walter Korn (1990)
"Pandolfini's Chess Complete" by Bruce Pandolfini (1992)
"How To Win In The Chess Openings" by L.A. Horowitz (1951)
"Winning Chess Tactics" by Yasser Sierwan and Jeremy Silman (1992)
....I have noooo idea where any these books came from. I sure as hell didn't buy them, and I sure as hell don't recall seeing them when I threw that box in there! I have no explaination for it..... none at all, but I'll certainly read every one of the books now... Figure I owe it to whatever nerdy ghost decided to slip 'em in there for me! 😀
-Kev
Originally posted by seraphimvultureMaybe next you'll be given a miraculous watch which can make time stand still, so you won't keep getting timed out in half your games, loser.
My love for chess has recently been rekindled (by recently I mean within the last few days), but in sort of a half-assed way... I just moved into a new apartment, about an hour drive from my old one, and about a hour and a half drive from the casino where I used to play poker almost every weekend and win some girlfriend-spending money... Well, with g ...[text shortened]... ... Figure I owe it to whatever nerdy ghost decided to slip 'em in there for me! 😀
-Kev
Originally posted by no1marauderMaybe if you'd gotten a hold of that watch a few years ago you wouldn't have to spend ten bucks a week on diapers, old man. I can't tell if that over-inflated rating of yours represents your age or how many hours you spend praying that someone recs one of your pointless posts...
Maybe next you'll be given a miraculous watch which can make time stand still, so you won't keep getting timed out in half your games, loser.
-Kev
Originally posted by seraphimvultureWow...that IS a little creepy. If you clean out your attic, and find a box full of money...that's mine. I left it there.
My love for chess has recently been rekindled (by recently I mean within the last few days), but in sort of a half-assed way... I just moved into a new apartment, about an hour drive from my old one, and about a hour and a half drive from the casino where I used to play poker almost every weekend and win some girlfriend-spending money... Well, with g ...[text shortened]... ... Figure I owe it to whatever nerdy ghost decided to slip 'em in there for me! 😀
-Kev
