Dear Readers,
Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend!!!! I am having a great weekend. I started my Saturday morning with a 6 km walk. After that I practised Guitar for an hour. And, now I am writing this blog. What a perfect weekend :-)
Today, I want to tell how I can correlate Chess with reality. When I was young, I hated this game. Any game that involved using my brains was against my principles. I was a more outdoor guy. Me and my friends used to play Cricket starting early morning till late night. I could never understand why two people were spending their brains on a board game.
As I joined my new office, I saw that they had kept chess boards in all coffee areas. Since, some of my colleagues used to play the game I started observing them. Sometimes to beat boredom, I used to join them in a game or two. My team had a lot of good chess players. I lost to everyone of them. So, I was a very bad player. But, something strange started happening. I started to like the game.
I started practising the game on my phone. I played on a chess app called KLite chess which has around 12 chess levels. I could never go beyond the fourth level. Then, I started learning and practising chess moves through lessons in the same app. Slowly, my game started to improve. I went on to beat the computer at the eight level. Slowly, I started beating the guys at office too.
But, my main competition was with the guys who had never lost to anyone. I thought I should practise hard so that one day I might beat this guy at chess. So, I joined a chess forum called Chess.com. This place was a hub of chess players from all over the world. It had Grand Masters and other very highly rated international players. I started participating in team games and started learning professional moves.
In this website, I progressed very well. From a paltry Elo rating of 476 I progressed till 1676 within 10 months. I was able to play games where I could predict the next 7 moves of the opponent. At office, I defeated the champion in my team in 5 consecutive games.
Now, you would say how is all this related to reality ?
The first phase when I was young and did not understand or like chess is like the Youth. As they say, the Youth is ignorant. We do not understand lot of things and we tend to be in our dream world. The second phase is when I started taking interest in Chess. This is when I say that when people truly understand something, they can appreciate it. Like they say, only a Jeweller understands the worth of a stone (diamond).
The third phase is when I started playing and losing. This is the phase in reality when the reality strikes hard, We know how difficult life truly is. The fourth phase is when I decided to work hard for my success. This is the stage when we need to pick up ourselves and be strong to face the challenges in life.
The final phase is when I won. This is the phase when the hard work starts bringing success. I once received a beautiful message and it read "Life itself does not have any meaning. But, it is an opportunity to create one."
I hope you all liked this article. I would love to get your feedback. You can put across your comments in the section below the article.
With lots of Love,
Gunjan.
Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend!!!! I am having a great weekend. I started my Saturday morning with a 6 km walk. After that I practised Guitar for an hour. And, now I am writing this blog. What a perfect weekend :-)
Today, I want to tell how I can correlate Chess with reality. When I was young, I hated this game. Any game that involved using my brains was against my principles. I was a more outdoor guy. Me and my friends used to play Cricket starting early morning till late night. I could never understand why two people were spending their brains on a board game.
As I joined my new office, I saw that they had kept chess boards in all coffee areas. Since, some of my colleagues used to play the game I started observing them. Sometimes to beat boredom, I used to join them in a game or two. My team had a lot of good chess players. I lost to everyone of them. So, I was a very bad player. But, something strange started happening. I started to like the game.
I started practising the game on my phone. I played on a chess app called KLite chess which has around 12 chess levels. I could never go beyond the fourth level. Then, I started learning and practising chess moves through lessons in the same app. Slowly, my game started to improve. I went on to beat the computer at the eight level. Slowly, I started beating the guys at office too.
But, my main competition was with the guys who had never lost to anyone. I thought I should practise hard so that one day I might beat this guy at chess. So, I joined a chess forum called Chess.com. This place was a hub of chess players from all over the world. It had Grand Masters and other very highly rated international players. I started participating in team games and started learning professional moves.
In this website, I progressed very well. From a paltry Elo rating of 476 I progressed till 1676 within 10 months. I was able to play games where I could predict the next 7 moves of the opponent. At office, I defeated the champion in my team in 5 consecutive games.
Now, you would say how is all this related to reality ?
The first phase when I was young and did not understand or like chess is like the Youth. As they say, the Youth is ignorant. We do not understand lot of things and we tend to be in our dream world. The second phase is when I started taking interest in Chess. This is when I say that when people truly understand something, they can appreciate it. Like they say, only a Jeweller understands the worth of a stone (diamond).
The third phase is when I started playing and losing. This is the phase in reality when the reality strikes hard, We know how difficult life truly is. The fourth phase is when I decided to work hard for my success. This is the stage when we need to pick up ourselves and be strong to face the challenges in life.
The final phase is when I won. This is the phase when the hard work starts bringing success. I once received a beautiful message and it read "Life itself does not have any meaning. But, it is an opportunity to create one."
I hope you all liked this article. I would love to get your feedback. You can put across your comments in the section below the article.
With lots of Love,
Gunjan.
1 comment:
Excellent Maga. Congrats on your win!!!
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