{Read as: Five people on myspace have nothing better to do with their lives - poor you.}
It's kind of scary, though. I didn't think anyone would read it.
So, I'm learning how to play chess. I think it is an awesome game, in fact I would love to actually be able to win at some point. I was reading Josh Waitzkins introduction about why he loves chess so much {not the first one, obviously; I finished that whole thing already.} and now I do not believe I will ever be able to correctly play and win at chess. Josh loves puzzles, more than the answers, and I'm just not like that. Sure I like puzzles, but only because I want to know everything. I would have no problem with simply knowing everything in the world. It's an obvious flaw. How can a person like me play chess? I don't have the drive do the amazing feats Josh does, and I can't even tell you where D3 is on a chessboard without thinking for a full 10 seconds, and even then I probably could not explain it very well. {I do not believe '3 spaces to the right and two forward from the white side point of view' is a very good explanation.}I make foolish mistakes every time I play, almost as bad as the problems I get wrong on my math tests- like forgetting to write an x and subtracting 32 from 64 instead of 32x from -16x.
I just can't keep so many things in mind at the same time, even if I simplified it. I also can not freestyle, but I can rap very well.
It just does not make sense.
I don't think my ADHD should really have that big of an effect, if that’s what it is, I can remember what happens in a 500 page book perfectly fine. Why would my brain store those types of information differently? What the heck is wrong with my hippocampus!? Maybe it’s just something else I don’t know, eh? At any rate, I am still going to continue learning how to play chess even if the only thing I can do with it is to teach others how to play chess.
Now, as to why I want to play chess…
Not only is Josh Waitzkin’s voice almost as cool as Crispin Freeman and Q. {Quinton} Flynn but he also has a very appealing way of speaking that makes me want to pay attention… ^.^ but I digress.
The actual reason I started to learn how to play chess is because it seemed like an interesting game and I could not win at it. I like winning. I then started playing Chessmaster and realized that it is one of the best games ever. Definitely the best board game, now I am constantly thinking of chess and how chess applies to other things in life. I daydream about playing chess. I am sad; I know. The fact that I will probably never actually be able to win against an actual opponent makes me very sad, but it is okay because I love playing the game.
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