Saturday Random Surfing
I was surfing randomly when I found this blog post by a Malaysian 16 year old girl.
I Like Chess…
Saturday, November 17, 2007Besides it being a game of strategy, the game teaches you how to part with pieces. I’m not a fantastic player (heck, even I lose to my youngest sister!) but I still love the defense and offense tactics used in the game. I love watching people play too.
By watching people play, you can tell what their train of thought is like. How precise they are. How willing they are to sacrifice. Through mere observation, one weakness I noticed is that most of my classmates always sacrifice their pawns. Sometimes saying ‘Ah, I can’t lose anything’. On the other hand, they become a lioness when protecting all of their important pieces like the rook and the knight.
Being able to part with each piece needs just as much balance as protecting each piece. You can’t tip the scale.
Of course, you don’t sacrifice all of your important pieces - a sure route to suicide - but you be selective. You learn to part with the apparently important pieces and focus on the ones important.
This process of eliminating importance is similar to decisions made in real life. As the momentum of the ball in our game of life (no, not THE Game of life, OUR game of life) picks up, we face split roads. We’ve to eliminate and sacrifice things that are less important because there are only 24 hours in a day. One can only do so much.
I like chess. I really do.
~ http://adelyntalks.blogspot.com/
I’m sure she is has not taken part in active competition and I hazard a guess that there is a huge number of these people in Malaysia. If only we can reach out to them and get more of them active 
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