Chess Essay!

By Shawneigh

Sun, 06 Oct 2013
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Whenever my brother and I play chess, he wins almost every time. He could easily predict my moves, and he takes out all my chess pieces one by one. Also, at the end of the game, he usually gets to checkmate my king. However, after all these times that my brother and I had played, I finally found a way to defeat him.

At first, it seemed so difficult to look for a solution on how to win against my brother. Again and again, we competed. Still, I continued to lose, but soon enough, I did find the answer to my question.

It took me weeks to hone this skill.  Although when I challenged my brother once more, it became a lot easier. This was the time when I had defeated him at last. In the beginning of the game, I eliminated most of his pawns in just a flash. Then, I took out his other chess pieces one at a time. Before long, only his rook and his king remained. In just a few moves, his rook was cleared away, and lastly, I have cornered his king. By the time I had executed the checkmate, I was so happy! I rejoiced and rejoiced! What a wonderful achievement I had accomplished!

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Submitted by TCTSTONE on

Lol I know the feeling. I don't play chess but I can relate to the feeling of finally having that first victory with something.

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Submitted by peterelbee on

That sounds like a good strategy. If you cannot defeat your opponent then at least lessen his/her pieces thus decreasing the weaponry. It does require a lot of thought and planning because you also open yourself up to the chance of having the same done to you. It all comes down to the end game and how you go about attaining your victory; which pieces to sacrifice for advantage and what to retain for the final assault.

I enjoy playing chess and know how humiliating it is to lose to the same person time and again, but if you keep at it you eventually find some sort of weakness that you can exploit. The decision to attack sometimes takes your opponent by surprise and can be of a great advantage, other times you just end up being defeated all the quicker.

Reading this essay I was reminded of a night a long time ago when I decided to join a local chess club just for something different to do. I played a few games and started climbing up the ladder then was put against a very good player who obviously knew all the right moves, gambits and variations to time honoured combinations. In hindsight I never really stood a chance.

I started playing what I thought to be a reasonably logical game and after a while I realized that he was mistaking my random moves as a new version of old gambits, or odd variations to existing ones. I had him stumped mainly because instead of playing the sequences he expected me to play to counter each of his textbook combinations I was playing whatever move came to my head. Of course he eventually checkmated me but not without a great deal of trouble.

I guess the moral to this, if there is one, is that common-sense can sometimes outwit rhetorical logic.

Great story thanks for sharing.