you play, Authentic? umm..
i used to be part of chess club during my HS years for just my lesiure when there are days that have no practice days or so. During my freshmen year, there were biggest tournament in my school, Chess tournament and i walked all the way till i got biggest upset and [blink] my queen is gone, system went downfall, i couldn recover it and lost. I walked out with 3rd place out of 37. Sophomore, i won 3rd place AGAIN!! Junior year, finally CHAMPION and senior year, i walked out being a REPEAT CHAMPION. After i graduated and i got gift from chess club's sponsor: Chess set and scrapbook of 4 years of Chess. Sweet gift.
I went to RIT, i asked several ppl to play chess and guess what? they SMOKED me up so badly but i am learning the tricks n trades, now im in competition level and left RIT to transferred to SJSU, havent play chess ever since.