Chess

I've started playing chess at chess.com. You can check out how I'm doing by clicking here, or go to chess.com and search for the member named NoBadKittens -- that's me. You can see if I'm winning or losing these days. Challenge me to a game, if you don't mind getting a serious spanking!

I've never played chess much through the years, maybe 20 games or so. Once I started playing on-line, I realized I should get a real chess board so that I could try out scenarios before making my moves.

I got the new chess board all set up last weekend. It has plastic pieces. I set up some chess puzzles, made some spectacular wrong moves, and turned some close matches into absolutely routs for the other side. Three cheers for the darn chess board! I went to bed.

In the morning, the chess pieces had been scattered by the kittens. I looked under the fridge and behind the book cases and out on the balcony, and eventually found all but two pawns and a bishop. So much for using that chess board. No Bad Kittens, indeed.