I Told Myself So

The ever ready battle to win is just that the struggle to survive you would think just what kind of person is qualified to coach in the game of chess? Is it someone who has been at the top? Surely I am all ears and a willing student of someone famous who has been at the top with all earnest I've been inspired by those at the top who have achieved. Although my rating is not very high I do pay attention to those who have made it there to the top and have made a name for themselves. I find soul and inspiration enhanced when I read up on those who can inspire me to move on and press on despite the overwhelming odds of the competition being far over my head. Feed the soul and let the quest for victory never die even when little hope is there. Now yes that is a tall order but nevertheless these orders will never cease to exist and life can and will go on regardless of the negativity. Although I sense and feel my winning streak has been past I wait and hunker down until the storm passes over my head and I can see the light again. I believe good prevails over evil. Beware of those who can lead us into the desirable ways and the right way call them leaders or the priests of hope remember we must listen to the preacher man listen to the logic and the inspiration in his or her voice and choice of words. We may or may not ever become champions at our chosen fields of endeavor but if we can show a sign of heart and direction we will achieve.

Make My Day

Let us face it chess is a game played primarily by males why this is so I do not know maybe because females are smarter than men as to not get themselves in a do or die conflict. Chess is a game which is a simulation of war. I got interested in chess while at the peak of my tennis game coming off from placing in the finals of the city I often practiced the most I wished it were a major metropolitan city but some champions do come from small towns like I have come to know. I was bred so to speak in Oakland my place of birth and yes I met up with Brad Gilbert one of the coaches of the winner of the last major tournament of the U.S. Open recently. I was never the star player as Brad was now a commentator for ESPN I could be corrected my errors can be corrected. Excuse me for rambling on but even the best legends have been known for ramblings. Note one of my best actor/directors is under fire for doing so and it was this person named Clint Eastwood who coined the phrase Make My Day based on one of his movies. My chess partner named Mike Smith(not his real name) from work would love to threaten me and we would love reciting the macho words Clint Eastwood used in his movies such go ahead make a move make my day. I always ask myself this question whenever I go online to play a rated game with few exceptions. Clint Eastwood is such a major legend that I believe he can overshadow his so called ramblings seen in today's news story. But a mere mortal who rambles cannot be forgiven as easily.

How To Win

The formula for winning; should I reveal it? I'm not sure as every time I think I know how to win what to do and I reveal it all things just backfire and I wind up with smoke in my face. The last session of wins has been fun but tolerating the loses is the bad part for me. I have been reading other blogs on chess mainly the more expert chess bloggers who show the chess boards and the moves. It is all diagrammed. All in a package. For the average person on the street reading advanced chess blogs might pose a meaningless and confusing story way over the heads of the average reader the story complex and so forth. One would think a simple basic story like this one based on a beginners experience would be more suitable for the masses of readers who want to know about chess. But for all these years that I've been playing chess one would think that by now or even years ago I would be now writing about my past successes in achieving a grandmaster status rather than writing still for several years now the elementary steps of chess. What is this you say I'm retarded then? Yes yes the proper and appropriate expression is that I'm as mentally challenged as say the top ranked chess player of the world Magnus Carlsen if not much much more than he is. Who knows how much more effort I put in just to win some simple chess games where as Magnus Carlsen but puts in so little effort to win the very complex chess games in the range far above and beyond my capabilities? As a living person like Magnus Carlsen I feel as much as he does and the effort I put in for each game may be more than his efforts. I can still write about championship chess from my point of view. In fact I am in the mood for a chess game. Will I play a good one? If I do you will certainly hear from me. Oh and by the way hello to all my readers in Russia I see your country on my statistics as one of the countries who is reading this blog on chess. One of my best friends for a time was Russian American until he accused me of stealing from him but I had forgiven him for my Christian upbringing got the best of me and I was able to forgive that who trespassed against me as much as I wished for others to forgive me for my trespasses. I am now free to move on and not be confined to a bitterness toward an opposition that tried to falsely destroy me. I am now free at last free at last to move on.