Chess & Me

I was first acquainted with chess when I was around 7-8 years old at the Indoor sports club here in Varanasi I remember being astonished at seeing the emotion engulfing silence with which people used to play I also remember hearing the words like check there. My first chess set was a birthday present alongside many other games such as scramble and snake & ladders. Initially the knight as a piece just seemed a nightmare for me because of the way it moved on top of that everyone used to describe it in a freaking different way. My Initial games were mainly with my elder brother and my father. But it was not frequent until our first laptop arrived which as luck would have it had chess titans pre-installed in it. My growth began from there I remember vivdly the games that began from me losing to lvl 1 all the way upto winning at lvl 9. While in Goa I played quite a lot of chess beginning from the U-12 Intra school (A Gold for my house). Then the cluster event U13 (A Bronze for the school). At the regionals though I suffered quite devastating losses and actually had a pretty bad tilt ending the tournament 4.5/9 after scoring 3.5 in the first 5 games. It was around Class 7th that I actually began goung to a chess class It was there that I was introduced to formal opening and knowledge of chess. I played Giuoco Piano and Ruy lopez until recently thanks to gothamchess and agadmator. I also played two open tournaments during this time scoring 4/7 and 3.5/8 respectively and but I never actually got a fide rating as all of these tournaments were organized By AICF and not FIDE. After coming back to benaras I played chess much less frequently until recently in online events in 2019 and 2020-21. Further below are some of my games in online chess I hope you enjoy the ride as I walk you through them (To chess followers: The chess.com games will be a gif as they do not allow link embedding although I will provide a link at the bottom to go through the game).