Christmas, New Years and the Lions on TV made us lose our location for three weeks. But we are BACK!
The Livingston County Chess
Club meets every Monday night between
4pm and 10pm
at the Buffalo Wild Wings in
the Green Oak Mall in Brighton, MI.
Stop in for some friendly chess, good food
and 'refreshments'.
Everyone of all ages and playing strength are
welcome to attend. And free lessons to all beginners!
See you all on January 22nd for the continuation of our 2023 Club
Championship.
Let’s think about what it takes to have a Chess Mind! An article
by Lajos Steiner circa 1937.
“Chess is generally considered a slow game that requires a great
amount of patience for it’s players and on-lookers as well. As a chess player,
I would feel sorry for a person, who ignorant of the meaning of chess, might be
sentenced to sit and watch a chess game for several hours.
Though there are some forms of chess which interest even
non-players (simultaneous and blindfold exhibitions, as well as speed chess),
chess is a game that has to be learned to be appreciated. Once learned, chess
does not require any more patience than any other human activity. Are you bored
reading a good book? You are not. But read a book in a foreign language where
you don’t know what is going on and it will not hold your interest.
Chess becomes interesting for a person when he has mastered the
movement of the pieces. He now finds himself in a new world as his chess mind
develops. He sees combinations that win material. He sees attacks that trap the
enemy king. He sees the artistic beauty of the pieces dancing around the board
to complete the mission of their leader!
A chess mind is a combinative one. It sees the different
possibilities of a situation and tries to find better situations that can be derived
out of the current one. A chess mind is at once, logical, but also imaginative.
Surely this helps increase the intellectual standard of humankind.
Young people taught to play chess will profit in many ways. They
require a feeling of responsibility. They soon discover that in chess – and life
– you cannot depend on fate, but on yourself. They start the competition on
equal terms with their opponent. There is no umpire or referee that can make an
incorrect call against you. If you lose, it was of your own hand.
This inspires one to improve one’s self. To find faults and weaknesses
and eliminate them."
