I love playing chess! For me, I'm better in person than I am online. I prefer the feel of the pieces, watching my opponent, feeling the stress of the moment that could make or break you. I learnt how to play when I was 11 because all of my friends knew how to and I was sick of being left out. The best way to learn, like anything else, is putting in the hours, it just happens to be that these hours were fun and not boring or labor intensive!