Friday, July 14, 2006
It's about having a strategy in your head, and not letting your opponant know what that strategy is. You have to be defensive and also agressive. Knowing when to make a forward move, and when to protect yourself from a play that may leave you gasping for breath.
The awkwardness of the game, is that you never truly know if you are being played. There is an element of trust eventually which has to take place if you want to move past just a game of strategy. Yet, one never knows when that trust can be given - for often miscalculations are made, and you are left without your key players. Some of the best players never let someone get close to them, never let their guard down.
But is life really worth living, if you can't ever let someone get close? I mean, the incredible pain means you're alive - and to truly be alive and living in a moment in an incredible feeling.
I would be an idiot to tell you to build walls and never let someone close. You may win more chess games, but that's not really what life is about.
I am thinking it may be a bad sign that I am not that good at the actual game of chess:)
The awkwardness of the game, is that you never truly know if you are being played. There is an element of trust eventually which has to take place if you want to move past just a game of strategy. Yet, one never knows when that trust can be given - for often miscalculations are made, and you are left without your key players. Some of the best players never let someone get close to them, never let their guard down.
But is life really worth living, if you can't ever let someone get close? I mean, the incredible pain means you're alive - and to truly be alive and living in a moment in an incredible feeling.
I would be an idiot to tell you to build walls and never let someone close. You may win more chess games, but that's not really what life is about.
I am thinking it may be a bad sign that I am not that good at the actual game of chess:)