PotassiumDid you name Joshua Waitzkin’s book “The Art of Learning”? Wizkin was once a chess prodigy. “Looking for Bobby Fisher” is a Paramount movie about his name. Wizkin is not a new fisherman, nor is he an American chess icon. He stopped thinking, turned to Chinese martial arts Tai Chi, and became a world champion. In his book, he described the process that led him to perfection. He wrote that the key to excellence is an organic learning process, not living in a static and mediocre shell.
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Why should I tell you this? Because there is a chess board and a chess clock on the table in the corner of my living room, both of which are relics of last year.Now winter is here, and soon stand up It’s getting dark again, and it’s time for melancholy exercise again. I don’t want to take the martial arts road that Witzkin chose in his pursuit of excellence, but take the opposite road and lead to a chess champion. Finally: nothing is impossible.
By remaining undefeated, I took the first step in what might be my spectacular chess career last winter. The fuse was the Netflix series “The Queen’s Beginning”, which suddenly made half of the world crazy about chess. Soon there will be no more chessboards to buy, and no chess clocks. Almost everyone I know has become a victim of chess warming in the cold winter and blockade. My advantage: When I was young, I played chess at an amateur level. There were a few textbooks on the bookshelf upstairs. In short, I was obviously defeating family and friendship.
I often make video calls with relatives hundreds of kilometers away. What was annoying at first was that he was sure he could move two pawns by one square at the beginning. It was not until after extensive Internet research that my relatives admitted that this rule must have changed since his last game, so that you can only move one or two squares with one piece.
This is how my winning streak started, whether it was one-on-one on the chessboard or through video, if you think my opponent may not have reached the highest level, then you are right. But hasn’t the most famous boxer ever reached the top with a strong opponent? In any case, the chessboard and clock are still in my old place. Now I think her time will come again. My time.
