Beware the Magyars !
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on Sun, 04/06/2008 at 3:10pm.
In my "Getting to Know You" post I said that the guy who taught me to play showed me just enough so he could beat me easily. When he took an interstate posting for six months I asked a Hungarian friend how I could learn to play the game properly.
He had won the Under 1600 section of the City of Sydney Championship the year before so he was well-qualified to be my mentor. Then he took me to the Maroczy Chess Club in Sydney where I played for some years. I liked the people who made me feel very welcome.
(I had a perfect score in the Maroczy Cup that first year -- six straight zeroes, unblemished by a single win or draw.)
There's a story about Sydney's Maroczy Chess Club on my web page. You can find it here: http://tinyurl.com/6p8p9n