Hello, welcome and thank you for visiting “Interesting Moves !?” As you have probably already discovered, this blog is about chess. The title,”Interesting Moves !?,” was choose because, in chess, the phrase, interesting move, refers to a range of chess moves that, in the eye of the observer, are brilliant, surprising, unorthodox, or complex. The move will often turn out to be significant but not always. This blog will focus on the surprising and unorthodox. I plan to share videos, book reviews and other chess-related information that I find interesting–information that you may not.
This blog is maintained by a retired anthropologist/methodologist/scientist who has been involved with creating website since 1996 and who, in 1998, established Kelly Webworks, a web hosting and domain registration service. I was first introduced to chess when I was a preteen. [As of this writing I am 69 years of age.] My interested in chess piqued in the summer of 1972 during the The World Chess Championship between challenger Bobby Fischer of the United States and defending champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. At that time, I was a counselor at a Boy Scout Camp. My supervisor that summer was a relentless grandmaster. I recall winning one game [I got a pawn passed him. Come to think of it I usually played black.].
My interest in chess began to wane after that summer. I went back to school, met my future wife, when to college, went to graduate school, got married, had children, and so on. Now that I am retired, I’m back to learning and relearning a game I truly enjoy. I hope you share my enjoyment.