Saturday, August 13, 2011
Is this a real story? Like w. An author & a title?
Once upon a time there was this guy who lived a crazy life. He was pretty much a quiet boy who somehow never received attention. He personally feels that he has many talents. One talent that he has acquired was playing the game of chess. When he was only ten years old he was going state to state playing in tournaments. Every single weekend he went to these tournaments. If not every weekend then every other weekend he won a trophy. In order to win a trophy you have to win at least three out of five games. This skilled and talented player became so good that he was playing people more than twice his age. There was one very particular game that this boy learned a certain set of skills to help him prosper in life. This one game was a game that was rather unique. There were five players on each team and in order for a team to win; at least three players had to win a game. All five players on each side started at the same time. Each player was given two hours to play. Since the young, skilled boy had white he had to go first and after he made his first move his opponent took half an hour to make his first move. The young boy was not prepared for such a long wait to make his second move. He became restless and his focus started to wonder elsewhere. Finally after his opponent played his first move the boy attention quickly came back to the game. After a couple more five to ten minutes break he was receiving the boy started to learn what patience was. He came to the conclusion that his opponent wanted to mess up the boy’s focus so he can win the win. After about three hours into the game all four of the boy’s teammates finished. Since all of them rushed their games they all lost. So no matter if the boy wins his team as a whole will still lose the round. Around three hours and forty five ped into the game and the boy won. After the game was over he learned two valuable lesions. The first lesson that was learned was no matter if your team lose, you can always be a winn
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