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title: The move that made me join a chess club, finally.
description: When I was 12 or so I was at my neighbour's. He had a nice chess set with some position he was studying, saying he was playing in a club, and I remember thinking to myself that if I would've been younger i would've wanted to join a club too. But that I never would get any good, at my age.
image: https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=webp&h=550&op=thumbnail&path=b2QH0j1PGHHv.webp&w=880&sig=f53d99641fe66584e586918f3e4f0712ca4f8842
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But in my late 30s i started playing a lot on the internet. The turning point in my chess career was when I played an IM and found the right move in this position:

![image.png](https://image.lichess1.org/display?fmt=png&h=0&op=resize&path=Uo68ylFdo5Yg.png&w=800&sig=cbacff36c9966e7b755643c70bb2fa76a5ebbf91)White to play to gain a winning position

it's from this game

https://lichess.org/z2w4NG7T

So I thought, why not finally join a chess club? And so I did, now I'm around 1900 FIDE, and I am enjoying my hobby, playing a standard game a week in my club tournaments, enjoying a drink and some chess afterwards in the local pub, and trying to teach my son (8) the little i know of this tremendous game. He is soon surpassing me in tactics.

I bumped into my neighbour at a competition, he's still playing. He's around 2000. Perhaps we will get to play some day, Stockholm isn't that big of a city.

Thank you, Lichess, for these first 10 years.