My Favorite Childhood Games

Hello guys how are you doing? Hope today is going fine for you? Please be careful in this period of busy roads. I got in two bike accidents in the last week, and I'm lucky to be alive I hope you guys are way more careful because I care about you.

Today I bring a list of games I loved from childhood. Some of them, I still play, others, I don't. I know most of you won't know a lot of them as done of them are java games played on simbian and Nokia phones in the good old days. Let's get to it.

1 Chess

It stayed with me till now, and that's why it's at the top. My uncle taught me the basic rules when I was young and he gave me a few tips. He wasn't a very good player himself as I found when I grew older and he couldn't even win a single game against me. But his tips no matter how basic were useful and still valid today nonetheless...

First he said to always keep my pieces protected. This was useful in the openings. For example if I'm white and I play 1e4 and my opponent replies with 1e5 and I play 2k3 and my opponent replies with 2kf6, he can't take e4 because of k×e4. So this is a valuable lesson if followed at every possible time. Growing old though, I've found that is okay to leave pieces hanging as long as there's no threat to them. For example 1e4e5 2kf3kc5 is a valid opening that is also very solid. Though e5 is hanging in that nothing is protecting it, if it gets attacked you can protect with kc3 as before or even d3. I won't advise d3 though except the bishop is already on c4.

Second thing I remember he told me was to always try to figure what your opponent was doing with each move. So if 1e4 and my opponent responds with kf5, then I should not just play d4 off hand because I want the centre control or something like that. I should try to figure out why my opponent appears to be letting me have what I want. It doesn't take a lot of skill to know kf5 attacks e4. So the best nice to punish kf5 is to push e5 stalking the knight and taking more space in the centre. In your next few moves if you get bishop c5 and d4, you're happy from the opening.

Growing up, I mean more recently, I've learnt more chess principles for example, a knight at the rim is dim.

If 1e4e5 2ka3 is a very terrible move. In the previous examples, kf3 and kc3 were good moves because the knight controlled more squares, but at a3, it controls only four squares two of which are in your own half of the board. If you compare that knight to an outpost knight on say e5, then you feel like just giving your house and all your possessions to ka3 just to make it happy!

Also,I learnt to take the open files and the half open files with my rook. I won't want to go into details here because too many moves and you won't be able to follow me except you're a fire rated player... But if for example, there's a trade on the c file, then that's simply where you want your room rook before your opponent gets the chance to control that square.

Chess is an interesting game with a whole culture of is own. It is considered stylish for example to take gambits. So if you want to impress a female chess player, accept a gambit (a gambit is a gift of a piece that improves your opponent in a way that isn't always obvious), and still wipe the floor with your opponent. Also giving gambits is considered pretty cool. So if you sacrifice a queen and mate the opponent's king, you could get a chess girl crushing on you instantly!!! Then, there are several funny concepts like when the queen mates the king herself, then it's called the kiss of death. When there's a fork in which the king and queen are involved, it's called a Royal fork. If the king, queen, and other pieces are involved, then we have a family fork, and usually, it takes a knight to deliver these kinds of deadly forks. If there's a lot of knight movement, we say the players are horsing around.

This is definitely the coolest board game ever. I love chess and at m everything about it. It has its own personality and style. And there's chess drama all the time. Just ask those in the chess world. If you can, you should get in it yourself.

Thanks for reading guys. You're awesome. Much love.