How I learned Chess

The author is a Fide Master and national senior champion. This is a story of some of the highlights of some of my chess experiences as a junior. I will take you on a journey from the time I learned the moves at the age of seven until I completed secondary school.

It is from an era before mobile phones, Internet, chess databases and chess engines. It was the days of black and white television and milk carts drawn by horses. It was when you could play correspondence chess without any concern a...