Saturday Morning Post – You’ve Noticed.

To the hundred or so daily visitors to this page (heh.)… You have noticed that there’s a distinct lack of annotated games here, or discussions of tactics and “strateegery”. I’m doing this on purpose to show that anyone can enjoy chess without having to work at it. Right now I’m just enjoying reading about it, playing the occasional blitz game, and living in the moment, so to speak, with Chess. Although this may change as time goes by, I think the topics presented so far have been well received by my readers, so I’ll leave it as it is.

I didn’t start this blog a year ago with the intention of focusing on my re-discovery of the game, but that seems to be what it has developed into. It was started as an exercise in writing and editing. Richard Rhodes’ Knickerbocker rule of writing (not to be confused with the baseball rule) states that you must “First apply ass to chair”. So that’s what this blog forces me to do. Don’t be surprised if you see an occasional rant, a non-chess related book or movie review, or a post about hiking, or freelance writing. But since I have led several of you down the chess path, I promise to keep steering in that direction.

I welcome any suggestions or criticisms. I want to see your web log – post URLs. What are you working on? Let me know.