My opponent captured my queen, but in doing so left his king unprotected. I saw this flaw and moved my rook to check his king. Panicking, he made two silly moves that resulted in checkmate. Though I have played chess since childhood and learned from my losses by analyzing moves and reading opponents, this game taught me the importance of staying calm and not giving in to temptation, even in tough situations. Chess has taught me much more than I expected from a medieval board game.
My opponent captured my queen, but in doing so left his king unprotected. I saw this flaw and moved my rook to check his king. Panicking, he made two silly moves that resulted in checkmate. Though I have played chess since childhood and learned from my losses by analyzing moves and reading opponents, this game taught me the importance of staying calm and not giving in to temptation, even in tough situations. Chess has taught me much more than I expected from a medieval board game.
My opponent captured my queen, but in doing so left his king unprotected. I saw this flaw and moved my rook to check his king. Panicking, he made two silly moves that resulted in checkmate. Though I have played chess since childhood and learned from my losses by analyzing moves and reading opponents, this game taught me the importance of staying calm and not giving in to temptation, even in tough situations. Chess has taught me much more than I expected from a medieval board game.
My heart sinks, I was on the losing end for the first
time in the game. Suddenly I see a flaw in his position; he had left his king unprotected in the process of capturing my queen. I move my rook, r3. Check. He panics and loses his cool. He moves his knight back to its original position, N6f5. Another silly move.N6f4, checkmate.The color drained from his face as reality struck him hard. Temptation had gotten the better of him and I had won yet again. I began playing chess at an early age of ten. The fact that war between two kingdoms could be portrayed on a 64-tiled square board had always fascinated me as a child. But as I grew up I learnt that theres a lot more to the game than just war. Learning from my losses I started analyzing every possible move. I began reading minds of my opponents and pushing them into silently placed traps. This in turn helped me improve my analytical skills. The game of Chess has also taught me to keep calm in tough situations and not give in to temptation. Little did I know that I would learn so much from a medieval board game; Chess is an unpredictable game indeed.
Horowitz, Israel Albert - Reinfeld, Fred - How To Think Ahead in Chess - The Methods and Techniques of Planning Your Entire Game (1979, Simon and Schuster) PDF
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