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I love Chess. For so many reasons; for its ability to transcend time, like mentioned above. It's crazy to think of games happening 200, 300 years ago that we still have record of. And not just who played and when, but every move they made. For the strategy of the game that only comes out as you focus on certain things.. like realizing the genius of the movement of a knight, and how it so compliments the movements of other pieces on the board. Or the nature of rooks.. quite powerful, but nearly impossible to bring to control the center without sacrificing a lesser 'pawn' or taking multiple moves to get into position. Or the awesome power of the queen to make nearly every move on the board, but for the same reason the biggest target on the board. People willing to sacrifices their knights and rooks and bishops just to get a chance at the queen. The power of the king in the end game.. a piece forced from check to check or into hiding in openings and mid game that gets very powerful in the pawn-pushing end game.
Anyone use chess.com? They have excellent "Online Chess" which is the 'correspondence chess' where you have 3 days, etc to make a single move, or "Live Chess", where you're able to play immediately against others.
Truthfully I'm not that good at Chess, but I do love the thought process involved.
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