I never felt so happy and boosted for no special reason before but today seems to be different. I just felt gingered up as if I smoked weed or took a steroid. Anyway there is no better reason to be happy than to be alive breathing, staying safe and healthy, not being sick in the hospital.
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Yes, today became more awesome because I had time with my best friend since 3 months ago. I have really missed the guy (No homo) because he has not always been around but this time he visited me at my house and we played CHESS.
Before I forget, my friend's name is DANIEL. We have been friends for 7 years now, and we have had lots of memories together. So as I was saying, he came my house with a chess board and I was like; "wow you brought a chess board to visit me". On a norms, he comes with his guitar "Oh yes, he plays guitar also" and we will spend time rehearsing songs together. We would score songs and post them on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook. Yeah, all those times I have been part of steemit but I left. I was new, I didn't know my way around though I stayed for almost 6 months before dropping it but this time, I am here to stay and also grow on Hive.
Daniel brought a chess board to me because I was a chess lover, "I still love chess though", and I was quite good at it. I used to win games anytime I played with most of my friends that plays chess and I played the chess game online also. The last time I played the chess board was 2017 both online and in person, "I know you must be thinking that since 2017, it has really been a long while", at that time I was in college.
I continued my chess playing in college and I was quite known in my department of electrical electronics engineering as a chess lover because I often win when I play chess with them. There was one particular day, my friends in my department came in contact with someone (Israel by name) from computer engineering. Israel played chess with my department guys and was seen to be very good at it. Then the whole electrical department decided to look for me, so I could play with Israel. I could remember on that faithful day I was quite busy with something but my friends carried me away from what I was doing to play with that guy. I didn't know what I was entering into until I played with Israel. I must confess, Israel was the toughest guy I had encountered on chess game, he really pressured me. We played 4 games that day, I only won once in the 4 games we played. He won the first two games we played, I decided not to accept defeat then I won the third game. Then we decided to play one more, then he won the last one. Funny enough, I was the one that quitted. I said I was not playing again because I was busy at first and also didn't want to lose the 4th time 😅😂😂.
That day was the last day I played chess until this day that Daniel brought it to me. I have forgotten most of the moves that helps me win when playing the game. So it felt like I was playing chess for the first time.
I can guess what you are thinking right now? You are actually thinking, who won in between me and Daniel 😂😂😂😂. The answer is Daniel won 😂. Not to brag but it's actually the first time Daniel won a game in chess with me. He was so happy winning, but on a norms he won't want to play with me.
I just don't know what happened to me but is it that I became dull or what 😂😂😂. I dare not play with my old friends that I had beaten in previous occasions now because they will be so happy to whoop my ass. My esteem towards chess playing has gone down, like really down since I lost to Israel in 2017.
Yeah, I know that I have a lot of work to get back being good at chess and I will work towards that. To do that, it's very simple. You only need to
- Watch people's games
- Thoroughly understand the moves of each piece
- Browse on YouTube for moves
- Get to know popular chess players, get a role model and know their moves.
Most times, it's just procrastination that holds me from improving. Now I have so many things to work on, it's just too hard to choose which one to start with first. Anyway, when I begin with chess again I am sure to share my journey and my research with the community.
I never planned on going this deep but all the memories bursted out when I thought of CHESSBOARD. I hope you enjoyed the story I shared. Would really love to see some engagements in the comment session below. Thank you 😊.
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