Finally started learning how to play chess. Technically started a few nights ago, but whatever. Only took me 29 years. Was always intimidated to learn in person 'cause even as a kid everyone I knew seemed to know how to play chess and I couldn't even figure out how to move any of the pieces, it was too complicated. So I bought a chess game on my Switch and have been playing a few games each night. I spent a while memorizing how the pieces move, and the automated stuff the game does is a real help with that (highlighting spaces where I can move pieces after selecting them, for example, massive help remembering what they do). At the same time, I have absolutely no idea what to do at the start of the game, or how a game ends. I've had some where the opponent ends with a king and I have plenty of pieces, but I don't really know how to get someone into checkmate. Or even how to get them in check, or what that means. I feel like once I understand that, the game will really open up and I'll become addicted to playing, but yeah, I really need to figure out how to recognize and execute checkmate and what to do at the start of the game.