America's newest chess master

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I'm pretty sure that in high school I held the record for the most losses in chess.

We had a lot of free time between classes which was spent in The Commons, which doubled as our lunch room, there was a year or two when playing chess became the thing to do to pass the time.  I know the directions the pieces move and I understand the rules of the game...the strategy...not so much.

I wasn't good at chess myself. Like you, I could only tell you how the peices were allowed to move, but strategy, I was never good at that. I'd always simply try to pick a peice off just to get rid of it, but part of the strategy, is knowing someone is baiting you into a trap to pick you off. And that can, for the experts get 10, 20, 30 moves deep thinking ahead. People have forever written books about that game. 

I was a little bit better at backgammon, but even then, my mom beat me 8 times out of 10.

Though I haven't played in years, I was pretty good at backgammon.

A guy I used to tend bar with taught me how to play.