As my dad was free from his company’s projects, I asked him for a chess match. My dad softly agreed, “Ok son, good luck to you”.
I took out the chess board from the drawer. Quickly putting the pieces to their positions, we started challenging each other, “Dad, you definitely lost this time”. I opened the match by moving the pawn two squares, without contemplating, my dad also replied with a pawn’s move. We managed to process the match quite painstakingly quick: after 10 minutes, we were to the middle game, and after 20 minutes, we were at the endgame. I gradually wanted to end the game with a victory, which made me take any move that jumped to my head at the first second. Disappointingly, I made a false move, my dad realized and take the chance.
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Standing at the lot of my team, I could not restrain my body from perspiring. My mentor, recognizing my state, calmed me down with a freezing bottle of water. Eventually, the first round was initiated. One more time, because this was the first experience I competed at a tournament, I was unable to concentrate on my match. As a result, I took any move coming to my head without taking much considering. As a consequence, I gave myself a false move. I put my Queen on the way of my opponent’s Rook. Without waiting, he threw his Rook to my Queen’s square as a replacement. I, analyzing this was the situation analogous to the match between I and my dad, demanded an undo, ‘ Could you let me take back my Queen?’. He rejected. As louder as I screamed , my opponent showed no signs of approval. Finally, since I refused to continue the game, he dashed to the referee, and I was decided the …show more content…
My mom, although having her clothes packed with dust after hours delivering products to consumers, still didn’t forget to ask about homework. “I had a math test tomorrow, mom.” While most of people were comfortably on their bed at night, my mom prepared for me a list of exercises to do. In the next morning, it was predictable that I managed to get through all of problems on the test.
In chess, everything was distinct. Coming to the club, my mentor assigned me to apply his lessons through real matches against other members. Throughout the match, I concluded that I could not request anyone for helping to figure out the next move except me. Although right after the time I took my hand out of the piece I recognized that was a severe mistake, my opponent did not give me any chances to rethink and take another move.
I didn’t expect to learn something meaningful in chess. What I dream of during matches are victories, during tournaments is the 1st rank. In fact, those prizes require a wide variety of virtues, one of them is the responsibility. However, my life does not only relate to chess matches, nor tests at school. Graduating from academic environment, I have to deal with various problems such as my job, my finance and even my children, and take important decisions. Whenever problem, whenever decisions, responsibility, the gift chess gave me, is the weapon I must not forget. Any action, as risky as it is, is my masterpiece
Your brain against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. Outdoor chess!
Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. Outdoor chess!
Your brain is against mine. Your woodcraft against mine. Your strength and stamina against mine. Outdoor Chess - The Best! And the stake is not without value, eh?”
The story “The Rules of the Game” shows how Waverly’s ability to play Chess well increases her mother’s expectations throughout the story. In the beginning Waverly wanted to play chess so much so that she was begging her brothers to let her play. Waverly says “ Let me! Let me!’ I begged
Waverly plays is the board game chess, where she must think ahead and plan out every possible move to win. She must put herself in her opponent's shoes and try to predict their strategy. “I discovered that for the whole game one must gather invisible strengths and see the endgame before the game begins.” (Tan 8) By understanding Waverly’s thought process throughout a game, we are able to learn more about her as a person. She is aware of how different she is compared to the other players, and uses it to her advantage. “...I would clasp my hands under my chin, the delicate points of my elbows poised lightly on the table in the manner my mother had shown me for posing for the press. I would swing my patent leather shoes back and forth like an impatient child riding on a school bus. Then I would pause, suck in my lips, twirl my chosen piece in midair as if undecided, and then firmly plant it in its new threatening place with a triumphant smile thrown back at my opponent for good measure.” (Tan 12) These situations show how
What one expect isn’t always what happens. This idea is shown throughout the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. He introduces us with the protagonist, Rainsford as an experienced hunter. Further along the story Rainsford arrives at Ship Trap Island and gets stuck there. While being there, he encounters the antagonist, General Zaroff. There General Zaroff presents Rainsford, with a game where he is to be hunted for by the general and has to hide out from him for 3 days. Rainsford finds a lot of problems along the way, nevertheless he maintains his nerve and finds a way to outsmart the general, resulting in him winning the game. As introduced in the story, Rainsford is a skilled hunter who can keep his calm in dangerous
“Four Directions” is the story of Waverly Jong, the young prodigy chess player who lashes out at her mother because of her constant showing off of Waverly. After returning to chess, Waverly realizes that her skill and determination is gone, along with the support and love from her mother. She beings to understand that her winning was solely dependant on her mother’s boastful remarks about her daughter, the love the Lindo was so openly expressing.
In Amy Tans “Rules of the Game” a first generation adolescent becomes fascinated with the game of chess and uses its rules as a strategy for life while growing up and away from her Chinese culture. This short story illustrates the struggle of growing up is especially difficult when in a culture different from ones parents.
On October 28th, 2017 my mother said “here” and gave me $30. “What’s this for?” I asked. “$10 is for lunch and the other $20 is for you to go to Six Flags with your friends (Keion Flenoid, Kamaurion Stokes, and Kelly Dang.) after your chess tournament.” The next morning, my mother took me to my chess tournament where me and my team (Gateway Middle Chess club) placed fourth in the tournament.
“My mother would proudly walk with me, visiting many shops, buying very little. “ This my daughter Waverly Jong,” she said to whoever looked her way. One day after we left a shop I said under my breath, “ I wish you wouldn’t do that , telling everybody I’m your daughter.” My mother stopped walking..... “Aiii-ya. So shame be with mother?” She grasped my hand even tighter as she glared at me. I looked down. “It’s not that, just so obvious. It’s so embarrassing.”... If you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess?” (Tan 41).
Lastly, being a chess player involves being strategic. While Waverly is versing an American man, she says, “ ‘Blow from the South’, it murmured. ‘The wind leaves no trail’. I saw a clear path…lean away from the wind so he is easier to knock down’ ” (Tan 4). Waverly is using methods taught by Lau Po to knock down her opponents knight. She imagines that the wind is blowing, knocking down the knight. This relates to the title because Lau Po is teaching Waverly his rules of winning a chess tournament. Therefore, chess is a game that involves many rules and strategies to be successful.
Being faced with a win/lose situation can be a complicated task to be faced with, as someone always gets hurt in the process. In the story ‘Ashes’, Ashleigh is faced with a very complicated situation between her parents, that if executed improperly, can really mess up the connection Ashleigh has with her parents. Her mom has a teapot that is full of emergency cash, and Ashleigh’s father needs a couple hundred dollars to complete a project that he is working on. Her father brought up the fact that she could steal the money and give it to him for his project, and then he would get back the money with his project. The thing that is preventing Ashleigh from doing that is the fact that her parents are divorced, so that she would have to steal the
“Oh no, please don’t tell me this is happening. Mom, can I just skip this tournament?” I pleaded, “There is absolutely no hope for me.” Being the dramatic person I am, I lamented the imminent end of my tennis career. I went into the tournament with an expectation of failure. I started the match by accidentally whacking the ball over the fence, tripping on my own feet rushing to end the point. The little confidence I had when going into the match dissipated within a few minutes. I continued the match pondering how to angle my racket to put spin on the ball. Every time I failed, I blamed it on the high skill level of my opponent. Unsurprisingly, I lost in an hour. When looking back on that match, I realized that it could have gone differently had I not brought myself down before. My lack of
B. suffered a lot during his time of imprisonment, though he did not go insane as quick as other captives. It was because he accidentally found himself a savior, ‘a wonderful weapon against the oppressive monotony of his own space and time’.7 What he found was a chess manual. With this book, his solitude suddenly perished! He immediately started preparing a chess-board with his sheet, and used bread for the chessmen. But it didn’t work, since he continually got confused about which piece of bread represented which chessman. Then he decided: he was going to play the games in his head. At first it was really difficult, because he had to memorize all of the positions of the chessmen. In time he got used to visualizing the chess-board and its thirty-two chessmen. He didn’t need the sheets nor the bread, for he had already reached the borders of
I felt like I could do anything. The moment was extremely surreal. I hadn’t accomplished anything so arduous in my life. The crowd’s cheers were thundering through my body. I had so much adrenaline coursing through my veins that I wasn’t even weary. People were jumping up and down, screaming in victory, and clapping so loud I couldn’t hear myself think. I couldn’t believe that I had just won the State Championship volleyball game.