A Gentleman's Game From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles and the Unexplainable By Dave Bachmann The probability of a certain set of circumstances coming together in a meaningful (or tragic) way is so low that it simply cannot be considered mere coincidence. ~V.C. King "Checkmate, Papa!" My grandfather surveyed the board, adjusted his bifocals and smiled. "Appears the teacher has been bested, Grandson! Well done!" It took me three years to beat Papa. He had started teaching me to play chess when I was ten. Blockade, attacking, breakthrough — Papa taught me everything he knew about chess, or the gentleman's game as he called it. Now, as a teenager, I had taken all those strategies and won. (Keep reading) |
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