Help! (General)

by CharlieJ, Monday, April 16, 2007, 20:11 (6577 days ago) @ Don Lester

Hi Don,

I just wanted to say thank you so much for such a helpful and encouraging response to my post. I followed a link in the Wikipedia chess notation page to 'fairy chess' which is a whole world of wierdness as far as I can see - is there genuinely such a thing or is that some sort of Wikipedia spoof?

On a positive note I am plugging away at the chess problems in the novice section and not doing to badly either. It's nice to be able to spend a few minutes on my lunch break doing these. My strategy is to read the info and attempt the problems and then to try to play a couple of games per week against my computer to try to reinforce what I've learnt.

I've registered with the Free Internet Chess Server (which is quite an extraordinary place) as well and have watched the odd lecture there and observed a few games, but I'd like to improve my game a little bit before I play against a person.

I'm also going to challenge my dad to a game of correspondence chess as I thought this might be a good way of improving my game in that I can study whilst I play.

That should be plenty to be getting on with!

Thanks again for your help,

Charlie