If you find the winter blues taking over your life this season, why not take up an activity to help beat it, like playing chess?
When I was young, it seemed that the game of child prodigies, or of the intelligent ones, was chess. I used to watch a couple of the other boys play chess on our way home from school on the school bus they had a magnetic chess set so the pieces wouldn’t slide off the game board when the bus hit a pothole, or drove on a back road. My favorite board game was checkers, I just never got into chess back then.
Chess is a two player board game, like checkers in the sense that it is played on a checkered checkered board, the checkers are light and dark colored, that’s about it when it comes to being similar to checkers . Chess pieces are often made in different colors, but the player with the lightest colored pieces goes first. Each player starts with sixteen pieces, as follows: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to capture the opponents’ king, which is called checkmate, if neither player has any legal moves, the game is also over, this is called deadlock.
To become an expert at chess, you need to practice and play for many years, but to become good at it, where you can skillfully play and compete against most players, you can only practice during the winter, when you are locked up with nothing. to do. To do, playing chess is a great game to learn, and it’s also perfect for helping combat winter blues. If you don’t have someone else to play against, there are many low-cost and even free versions of chess that you can purchase to learn and play against a computer opponent with varying skill ratings.
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