What I Know About Chess

          A while ago I was searching in Google: what is the maximum number of possible moves in chess?  The answer I have is that maximum amount of moves is somewhere less than six thousand.  However there is the three-move rule, for example: if you move in two square back and forth three times it is a draw.  I was thinking about being a good chess player when I was about fifteen years old but I have never mastered it.  I found out to improve my chess skill it will cost me financially to certain extend.  I like the thinking process of the chess: the insight, the pin, the fork and the trap.  But it is hard to find other players.  Even if there are other player, the game is not necessary fun.  Playing with computer also gets dull.  Now I am forty three years old and I subscribed one year of Chess Life magazines since last year.  I enjoy them very much.  However, I can’t just read the text and picture the position of the piece very well.  I like to try some products advertised in the magazines, too, but do not feel like to spend more money.  According to the magazine, in the 2010 Chess Olympiad, US did not do very well for both gentlemen and ladies.  For men, the result is 5^th to 10^th rank.  For women, the result is 3^rd to 5^th rank.  To me, I would definitely love to make money by playing chess but I do not have the ability to do so.  I know some people take a long time to make a move in chess but I rather play the move quickly.  I have not play a real chess game for many years now.  I did play a Chinese chess game on an airplane when I was traveling to Taiwan last December.  Chinese chess is different from Western chess.  Anyway, I think reading about chess is a good way to keep me occupied.