Hello friends! How are you? I hope you have a good health, you know if there is no health in your life, you have nothing. So, stay in healthy life...
Today I want to talk about my chess adventure in my life. Let's start.
My chess adventure started when I was 12 years old. At this time, I was in mid-school. I had two best friends and we were two close each other. We learned to play chess by ourselves. Because, there were no computers, no internet connection, no books about chess, no chess teachers for us in that years in Turkey. Some of there things maybe there but we couldn't reach them easily. We had only a chess board and chess pieces.
After we graduated middle school, I continued to play and improved myself on chess board. I found some better chess players on my high school and we played more and more games. After three year in high school, we reached a level blindfold chess. We could play in bus or when we were walking in road. Namely we could play chess without board and pieces. Just talking moves and play by mind.
We had tournaments organized by school at every end of season. I had a first place, a third place and a second place in this tournaments.
At the end of high school, you have to race for university entrance exam. You have to work hard for a good university. So I studied hard and I had no time for chess in these years. I started to leave playing chess in these years.
In my university life which was four years, I played chess five times with a same guy who was champion of Sakarya zone. I won just one match , he won three matches against me and one match ended as a draw. Now I am thinking I was still good at chess at these years. But, playing 5 times in 4 years made me weak I think.
After four year university life, I worked in a school which was too far from my family for 6 years, that city had foreign culture for me and there were new friends who didn't know how to play chess. Six years is enough time for forgetting something so I had forget my chess skills without any notice. I wasted my time for chess. If I managed my time for chess, I could be a better chess player. This thoughts are on my mind everytime.
Now I am very sorry about my chess life because I wasted some big times. Nowadays, I go to chess tournaments as an arbiter in regrets of my past life about chess. In addition, I play chess on lichess sometimes.
I am now 35 years old and I feel it is too late for getting back my old chess skills...
This is my chess life story. Thanks for your time.
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