Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:56:13 08/25/05
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On August 25, 2005 at 19:12:52, Fernando Villegas wrote: >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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