Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 16:12:52 08/25/05
Between 8 and 10 he is taught the game by his father, he gets very interested, push the old man to play with him and from then on he loses 120 games in a row. The las time he kick the board, slam the door of his room and take again the baseball ball. "Never more, I swear, I will play that stupid game!", he yells. Between 13 and 15, in the school, his interest rekindle, then he push heavily on his professors to organize a tournament, bothers everybody, gets a book from a book-store as a price for the winner and finally the tournamet is held and he loses every game and get last position and his friends laugh on him as he lose the last game with an adversary knight forraging trough his position, eating everything but the King. He fall in deep depression, get into his room for three days, kicks a board, promise never more to play chess Between 18 and 21 he is in high school and has seen twice "Looking for Bobby Fisher" and feel again a flaming desire to play chess, but this time, in order to learn, get a book entittled "Chess for Dummies" and purchase in a backyard a Chess Challenger 10 in a couple of collars and from then on he plays the machine and lose every game till he gets in rage and kick the bloody, stupid piece of plastic. Between 22 and 25 he pursues his studies of odontology and sign as a member of the University Chess Club and expend several nights playing his companions and get very soon a solid fame as an absolute loser around move 15. He does not kick the board but declare he is more a poet than a player and write some preposterous verses to his girl friend so she abandon him and goes with the basketball star. Between 26 and 34 he marry, earn a decent income and feel life is somewhat void if deprived of some intelectual challenge, so he expend money in a sizeable chess library, he study half of the first chapter of a book about opennings, solve the first 5 problems of "2000 mates in two for the chess fan" and then drop it in a corner of his library. From time to time he play a game with a colleague and lose every game around move 31. "I have drunk too much" he explains. Between 40 and 50 he has a more than good economic situation, three kids that does not see him but for asking money, a wife that no longer is willing to fuck with him and so he stumble in the chess club of the city, where he very soon win a deserved fame as the guy that pay the beer, pay the coffee, pay the donnuts and lose every game. Between 50 and his untimely death of a stroke he came to CCC and felt kind of a gratitude getting some of his post, from time to time, answered by a star chess programmer. Rest in Peace Fernando
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