My Chess Player

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Chess Player Most people learn to read before they learn to play chess, but for me chess was the first thing I was introduced to. My father first taught me the basics of chess in my birth place: Massachusetts. Short after my family and I moved to Cary, North Carolina where I live today. Here I would play chess for hours on end with nothing else to worry about. Studying chess, I would hone my skills and travel to tournaments on a regular basis during the weekends. Chess was my life, I would play upwards of five hours of chess a day with no school to worry about. All my effort led me to tie for first in nationals. Unfortunately, I was only in Kindergarten when this happened, now I have the burdens of school, friends, and my future to worry about. However, I still play chess as hobby and have improved tremendously since then. My love for chess grew as I got older, though I was not training as seriously, I started to appreciate chess and the strategy behind the game. Discovering similarities between a simple game and my complex life, chess began to define me as a person. …show more content…

Because of the logic and `strategy required behind the game, I started to solve my real-life problems pragmatically and logically without emotion. Though this can harm me in my debate career by making me less persuasive or on the robotics team by being too realistic, I believe it is the most efficient and best way to think the world. Chess has taught that there are multiple different “lines” or paths you can take in life and it is up to you to decide which one is going to give you the best outcome. One of the more aspects in chess is to look ahead past one move, applying that to life, I believe that I cannot only look at what will happen now, but anything that could happen in the future. Finally, chess has taught me to take risk in life. Like sacrificing a piece in chess, I sometimes have to take a risk to truly earn great

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