I recently got my order in from USCF Sales—a vinyl deluxe board, triple-weighted pieces, tournament bag, score book, and wooden analog chess clock. A couple of days later Chess.com and USCF Sales send me coupons in honor of National Chess Day for use on my next order. Poo! I'm broke and need nothing else from them, now!
Mayhaps a digital chess clock one day, if one day they manufacture one that looks not like it was produced from under a bow-tie wearing Cornell University Electrical Engineering student from the early 1970s.
By the way, Bruce Cheney (unknown to me if he is related to the Obama, Bush, Kerry, Cheney blood-line, though probably) invented the 1st digital chess clock. I might note that they are now used in Scrabble tournaments and Magic the Gathering Online, not to mention numerous other 2 player games.
Tonight my girlfriend Julia and I played a 15 minute game and gave keeping score via algebraic notation a first try. Julia gave it up after move 22, so naturally my clock ran out. We played through anyway.
I forgot to mention, I got an awesome Chess applique from eBay for my tournament bag! It depicts a Knight with the statement "Checkmate".
After a bit more practice writing out notation, as well as a bit more chess reading, I plan to check out my local Chess Club here in my city!
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