The only way to win
a chess game with a master
is never to make the move
he expects you to make.
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Shawn L. Bird 
Sometimes, that’s really tough to do.
You.
My dad was a chess master. He never threw a game for compassion sake. I never beat him once. I did draw his chess pieces in different positions of stalemate, and won a scholarship to The School of the Art Institute with those drawings. There’s more than one way to win the game 😉
I used to beat the computer because I didn’t do anything it anticipated. 😉
You have the beginning of a good Sci-Fi novel here 🙂
lol
I think Lewis Caroll already did it… 😉
Excellent thought, very well written…good to see this post …you have a great weekend dear 🙂
Thanks, Radha.
Terse and witty…loved it
Thank you.
It is the only way. As my Dad says “If you can’t stand the heat in the kitchen …redesign it”
lol
Awesome!
Was he an architect? 😉
Only for people’s lives, a church minister who thought left handed and always did the unexpected! 😉
🙂
Simple but powerful, it’s a really great poem!
Thanks, Jane!
Reblogged this on The Dusty Poetry Corner and commented:
This is true with opponents on any game. I tend to play Magic: The Gathering a lot and need to start developing new strategies; my room-mate knows my every move!
Today I said, “I feel like we’re being outmanoeuvred in a chess game.” My colleague replied, “We’re playing chess, but while we’re worrying about pawns, the government is playing Risk, and taking over the world.” It’d be funnier if it wasn’t so true.
Ah, yes…’tis ture with any game, really. Even card games…well done poem, Shawn!
Thanks.