Not good enough yet

Hello everyone,

It is great to have joined this chess community on the net, I really like and enjoy my chess, but as the subject heading suggests I do not regard my self as a very good player, and that is why I have not wrote to the forums before nor have I challenged anybody, I am sure that given time I will get round to challenging someone.

jumbojet

Jumbo, starting to play chess is a bit intimidating.  You push the pieces around the board and somebody who's been playing a bit longer than you can spot your mistakes and take advantage of them;  so you lose a lot of games.

But after a while you start to see things a bit more clearly and you don't make the same mistakes.  Then you build up some chess muscle.

Let me tell you, one of the great pleasures in chess is being able to beat up the guys who used to crush you when you first started.

Don't let us intimidate you.  Dive in.  Challenge a few people.  Enjoy yourself ... because even if we have the best of it today, tomorrow belongs to you. 

I'm most impressed by your comments, Dozy, and I wholeheartedly agree with you.

The gentleman from leeds should jump in and not worry. I know he'll have a wonderful time. 

..........also, you cant make an omelette w/out breaking a few eggs.

As you can tell from all the above comments, this I a wonderful chess community.  I'm also pretty new on the site. Neither am I very good at chess myself. But then, I find that, most of the time, my own opponents are so  helpful and supportive that it drives up my motivation to improve.  The comment by Dozy was so much to the point and he IS a great guy.  I know because he is willing to have a game with me, even though he is so much stronger, I appreciate that.  If it's ok with you, I'm planning to challenge you myself but not until to-morrow.  I'd better have a fresh mind!