I wonder if there are other chess enthusiasts here on steemit?
I myself was a rather serious tournament player before (I was actually thinking about to try to make a living doing it) but to be good in this game takes really much time and requires a lot of practicing so that long time ago already I decided to treat it as a nice hobby only. I needed my energy for other things, but I still like to enjoy this wonderful game for example by playing online blitz games.
These days when I still played chess seriously some funny incidents did happen which show how much this game can influence your brain and your thoughts:
- For example one day I was playing table soccer with a friend. When I received a goal because my goal keeper went to the wrong corner I shouted "Damn, I have pulled my KING into the wrong corner!" My opponent was more than surprised "King?". :-)
- Another time I was playing table tennis and wanted to start the game. Surprisingly my opponent just started even if I should begin. I called "Hey, I am white!" (because the player with the white pieces begins in chess ...).
- Last but not least one day some friends and I were driving with a car and seeking for a nice place for doing camping. I was sitting in the back of the car and was ... playing chess. Then the car stopped and the others asked me what I was thinking about a place for staying there. I looked out of the window and said "Nice POSITION here." ...
Obviously chess is a nice game but one should not play it toooo often.
I was thinking about how to start a chess section here and decided to begin with a little chess combination I managed to find in one of my own online chess games. Of course I could have chosen any famous game of "Bobby" Fischer, Garry Kasparov or Magnus Carlsen. I am not as impudent to think that my achievements on the chess board are comparable to what these grandmasters did. But on the other side their best moves can be found everywhere in the internet anyway, so it may be more personal to start with one of my own games. I also will chose a position which is quite easily to solve so that many people here may have the chance to find the solution. This was the position: What did I play to be able to mate the opponent within two moves?
The one who posts the correct solution first will be upvoted. :-) But no help of computers please - use your own brains!