How to Play Chess with Chess NYC | Chess Video Lecture | Learn to Play Chess: From a Novice to a Fierce Competitor - Hobbies

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hey my name is Michael proper and I'm a
co-director and principal in chess NYC
calm as a child I didn't get opportunity
to play chess
and it was a very uninteresting game to
me in the 70s you know mostly may or may
not know Bobby Fischer the only world
champion ever need in the history United
States was playing a fella who was
supposed to win from the USSR Boris
Spassky and I couldn't help but notice
that he games were taking days to finish
and for love nor money you could not
have gotten me to play a game that took
days to finish any nine innings four
quarters or three periods or I'm not
interesting so as a result I never
really had the opportunity to play chess
as a child and and my perception of the
game and perception is reality it was
that it was a boring dull slow old game
and the people that played it were
equally boring and dull so I never went
near the game at all
as an adult I came across the game of
chess and what I learned was it was a
great game it's a heart pounding
adrenaline flowing game that that most
people just don't get the opportunity to
learn about because they don't gain a
relationship with it and what I would I
what I kind of discovered was that the
chess community for many many many many
years oh it was almost arrogant and
didn't permit the game they tried to
what we call chess if I America here in
chess NYC and we taken a different
approach we try to Americanize the game
of chess so that it fits more into our
schedule what we enjoy doing here and
the chess NYC dot-com I'm very pleased
and proud that we're now in about 80
different school classes and have
several thousand students and we are
changing the perception of chess in New
York City the videos that you just
watched
are just a few of our passionate coaches
introducing you to aspects of the game
so you can get an opportunity to find
out exactly how great the game of chess
is I miss chess for many many years I'm
not missing it anymore I hope you
enjoyed the de sessions and I hope it
gave you a opportunity to decide that
you want to play the game and learn
really how to do it our website is chess
NYC dot-com you can email us at info
with chess NYC dot-com our telephone
number is two one two four seventy-five
eighty one
and I personally promise you that if you
decide to take on the game of chess that
we're gonna fire you up on a level that
you never thought existed within the
game
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