My Hobbies
1. Chess
One of the best places for someone in town to go to is Barnes and Noble. I have never been able to attend them because I did have something scheduled every Tuesday. However at Barnes and Noble they do have an open house (meaning anyone can play) tournament every Tuesday night at seven o' clock. From what the employees told me there is no reward other than just being crowned for the night as the winner of the tournament.
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One of my favorite things to do since I was in third grade was to play chess. currently I am not able play very much chess but I am hoping that once school is over I will be able to try some chess again. I have attended two chess tournaments, one of them I was not able to finish and I don't know what place I took but I did take sixth place in my second tournament which was about three years after my first tournament. I have dominated everyone in my family and now none of them want to play me any more since I have beaten them so many times, which is why I go online to play to play chess with other people. The software I play in is called Internet Chess Club and what is very good about this chess software is that whether I am very good or not at chess I am pared up against people who are about my skill level. When I first started playing I played several different people who all had skill levels that varied and then after the software gave me an estimate on my rating ( my skill level for chess) it then began to pare me up with people that were about my rating. I still love to play chess and I enjoy playing against anyone.
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2. Basketball
This is unknown to most people how I play Basketball but that is no surprise because I am only able to play when we are in season and that is uncommon. I do play in my church and we call it Churchball. Once a week we come to our church that has Basketball courts built in it (these Basketball courts were for the soul purpose of Churchball) and we play against other wards (church's organized in other areas) and we play in a tournament. This is a full scale tournament as well, there are people who travel to other places to play against the winners from the region and trophies are even awarded. It is as if this is a small scale nationwide tournament. The Churchball season is in season from about February to May. I do play then and other members of our team tell me that I am a good defense but I don't need anyone to tell me that I am a terrible shooter.
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3. Tennis
A second sport that I have been playing a bit recently is Tennis. When I was younger, maybe about ten or eleven years old, I used to go to the Tennis court every Thursday right after school. my brother Nicholas and I would even have to change our clothes while we were in the car since we didn't have enough time to go home and change my clothes. When we would get there we did end up doing a lot of running and not much of actually playing Tennis. I did get sick of not playing the game very much and instead just going through a lot of drills, I don't really know if they helped me a lot or not but now when I look at back at that I don't think it mattered very much if we had still done all of those drills or not, it didn't seem to have helped me in the end. I do still enjoy playing Tennis today and I look forward to the few times I am able to go to the court and play with my dad.