MSN board games

I played checkers last night, well technically early this morning!!! It was fun...I haven't played in a long time...but I lost both games, but it doesn't matter...I played Ray Zhang (rayzhang) on msn...the only thing I didn't like about it was the game forced moves...and there was some pretty stupid moves that it forced you to take...I like to think about my moves a lot...he doesn't he likes a quick game...but I haven't played for so long I'm not used to fast games...after checkers we played chess...he totally slaughtered me!!! I've never been good at chess (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it...he he)...my brother is something like a prodigy compared to me...well he's not really a prodigy but he has a natural talent for it...I reckon anyway...I guess when he taught me he didn't captivate me enough to want to play more...but I apparently am owed unlimited games of checkers (although he has tried to say it's 20 games...the cheapskate, but hey that's what brothers are like) because I did something for him (he bribed me with unlimited games to play at my leisure, so why not) so I think I might use them to get better...but then playing games like that at midnight, 1am doesn't help matters...but I think i did ok considering, I just hope Ray didn't think I was too much of a push over in checkers...I'll just wave off the chess...he he...but it was fun anyway!!! I hope we can play again.