How good are you at Chess?

Not good.

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you were in the chess club at school?

Very meh. I get there are a lot of standard openings and defenses that one can memorize. The end game can be fun because of fewer pieces on the board. But I am just lost at what to do in the middle game.

Absolutely suck at it. A few years ago, played it a lot on my desktop version (Microsoft-always at the beginner level), would always end up losing or stalemate, even with multiple un-do's etc. Except for one time where I was finally able to get a checkmate on it (once again, with multiple un-do's,etc) Unfortunately, I didn't write down/keep track of all the correct moves I made that resulted in this victory. Also, can't remember how many pieces were left on the board. I think it was down to the King's only. I may have had one Rook left.

I’m not great, I don’t find it to be very much fun. Chess is simply OK.

Stratego and Feudal are better ‘war games.’

Kind of embarrassingly bad. I prefer games like stratego and risk, anyway. Yes, I'm sure they lack the depth of Chess, but I'm not a real serious game player.

I am a game head. Started with chess very young but hardly ever play it anymore. It has been at least 10 years since I have played and easily 5 years before that. Even though I seldom sit at a board, I play fairly well. I do not like timed chess. It favors practice and memorized openings over calculation.

Try playing a test game against yourself. It will hone your ability to think in your opponent's shoes.

9/10 game