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Topic	It may be a minor thing, but I think the thing I'm most petty about my childhood
Mario_VS_DK 06/20/18 7:23:39 PM #1:	Is that no one would ever play chess with me. Some how I found out about chess when I was like 8 or 9 or something. Maybe because we had a cheap plastic travel chessboard or something. So I started asking people if they would play chess with me. Fast forward a couple months. I've played a few games of chess with I think my cousin and my uncle, and maybe one with one of my friends at this point. My parents got me a couple chess books and this really nice glass chessboard. So now I'm trying to ask even more people if they'll play chess with me. My parents (mainly my mom since my dad was always working) always answered with "Maybe later." Literally. Every. Time. My friends and sisters of course would always much rather prefer to play that boring game called checkers. About a year later, I've played maybe 5 games of chess and a good 50 games of checkers and more or less given up playing chess with people. Like, why would you get me a chess board like that? Almost nobody lived in this dead town, you wouldn't bring me anywhere where people would play it, and you certainly wouldn't play it with me. Even when you were a stay at home mom and all you were doing was reading, or playing Neopets. Did you expect me to play it against myself or something? Now, of course I could play on the computer. And I did some. But this was early 2000s when all the computer programs that we had for it were awful and didn't let you castle for some reason and had the AI make literally random moves OR the literally best move. So I stopped. --- How often do people read this? <cite>Mario_VS_DK posted [p:903656034] in It may be ... [t:76734317]...</cite> <quote>Is that no one would ever play chess with me. Some how I found out about chess when I was like 8 or 9 or something. Maybe because we had a cheap plastic travel chessboard or something. So I started asking people if they would play chess with me. Fast forward a couple months. I've played a few games of chess with I think my cousin and my uncle, and maybe one with one of my friends at this point. My parents got me a couple chess books and this really nice glass chessboard. So now I'm trying to ask even more people if they'll play chess with me. My parents (mainly my mom since my dad was always working) always answered with "Maybe later." Literally. Every. Time. My friends and sisters of course would always much rather prefer to play that boring game called checkers. About a year later, I've played maybe 5 games of chess and a good 50 games of checkers and more or less given up playing chess with people. Like, why would you get me a chess board like that? Almost nobody lived in this dead town, you wouldn't bring me anywhere where people would play it, and you certainly wouldn't play it with me. Even when you were a stay at home mom and all you were doing was reading, or playing Neopets. Did you expect me to play it against myself or something? Now, of course I could play on the computer. And I did some. But this was early 2000s when all the computer programs that we had for it were awful and didn't let you castle for some reason and had the AI make literally random moves OR the literally best move. So I stopped. --- How often do people read this?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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