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What motivates me?

Well, it all began for me in 2007,  I became a county (thats like a state) champion at playing chess in the UK - I then went on to the next tier - where the county champions would face it off for another round.

I went, naturally, to play for my county - but was unprepared for the might - the invincible force of the tactics which I had never seen before, it was disatrous that day. Luck was on my side however, I managed to pull off scholars on an opponent from Shropshire and won a few other games so I didnt go down too badly.

When I arrived back at my home - I realised that these - these, supreme battle tactics where so, unique - so different - I mimicked and synthisised my own tactics based upon the ones I had seen upon the field of the battle of the champions - I started using them against friends and family - they always worked, and I was praised at one point having so much knowledge of the game.

Then my tactics took longer - people knew what I was doing - they saw that the same technique was being used over and over - hence I was forced to change my tactics - but how - and where?

I pondered for a long time whether I could simply make another - but there would be no point - over time, I believed this would just get copied and used against me - so I turned to the internet.

When I finally found chesshere.com - I was actually amazed - the site had everything - a good community, an excellent leader, and an amazing amount of players from all over the world -

so the simple answer is this - the reasons which I play chess online are

1. meet new players every time I log on - most of them foriegn

2. It helps me devise new tactics

3. It helps me see the weaknesses in tactics Ive created

4. Because its online - I can do other things - like listen to music

Thanks for your time in reading this