But why?

I started playing online chess about three months, ago.

This is my last semester in college, and I'm pretty bored. I already know what I'm doing next year, I don't have a girlfriend (is that obvious with the whole chess blog thing?), and for the moment I just have to graduate.

This would offer the average person an inordinate amount of free time, with which he or she could be outside doing whatever they want. I would love to be out there, outside, in it, running, swimming, rolling, hiking, riding, jumping, frolicking (do people still frolic?), jogging or doing whatever people do outside. However, most of the time, I'm either working in the lab or sitting around at my real job with not much to do, neither job is especially "demanding," as one might say. But, I am stuck inside and in front of the computer, so what does one do?

So enters online chess, the above mentioned hobby. Playing online chess is probably the dorkiest thing I've ever gotten into. It's really dorky. I've played chess on and off since I was in grade school, and I've even played online chess before, but one has to knock themselves down a couple of notches on the social totem pole if they really want to play online chess.

I guess I've done that?

Surprisingly, playing online chess gets you into some absurd games/conversations/situations/confrontations, and that's what me and my friend Phillip will try to delve into here on MaChessmo.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Phillip, the proverbial foil to all of my chess aspirations. As I'm typing this he is busily defeating someone, right now. Me and Phillip work together and being that we have the same job, he also has copious amounts of free time behind a computer screen. He's also in grad school, an institution designed by society to be nerdy and kill time. He's also awesome at chess/life/mosteverything.

So stick around, we'll keep you updated.