::LIFE and the game of CHESS::

Life is like a game of Chess.. You have an opening, Middle game and an end game.. Opening is fixed...May it be Greco-roman or Kings Indian...in the form of our birth and upbringing.we don’t have any choice there. We can’t choose the family or the parents we take birth from. Nor can choose the way our upbringing is done...it’s all predetermined. As rightly said”Life is a theatre and we are the actors, doing our part only.” But for me, this statement is confined up to the initial stages of our life only...as soon as we move ahead; we start to play on our terms.

Once you into or have crossed your adolescence, do you allow others to decide instead of you??? Seldom...even though others decide for us, we either agree or disagree.we want total control of life and we choose to decide what we want to do...from there begins the “MIDDLE game” of our life..As in the game of chess, each and every move is already mentioned in the books of life. Their counter moves are also there, including the variations. Then you may ask why a super computer can’t be a world chess champion, when it has all the moves feed in it. There comes a classical saying “It’s not what you choose to do; it’s how you choose to do which is more important.” At every point in the game (unless it’s the end), you get multiple moves to choose from and play. In the game of chess, after every move a player thinks. How to react..How to make "moves" such that they can have long term benefits. How to make a good strategy..Everyone plays for a win, but those who play with more conscience, concentration and intelligence become privileged to get victories..Everyone plays for a WIN, but a single flaw can turn the table...U can be forced to surrender.At times you get a second chance to rectify your mistakes, at times you won’t get...but you can’t blame luck for that..It’s an irony that while making errors we don’t know, and when we realize we blame it to luck and god.What can they do...Luck or God can only help you up to an extent of providing a very good “OPENING”..Rest is entirely on you.

Once, I had one room partner from Shimla named Anil Shosta, who was a national level chess player. He used to live the game of chess. He told me that in a game Parimarzan Negi (India’s youngest grand master at that time-2006) placed his Camel at a place in 7th move..Later after he won the match, he said that the camel was placed there to be used at 32nd move, but since he won the match in 27th moves only, it wasn’t used..

You must be thinking “this guy is nuts”.. I don’ know anything about Chess and he is lecturing on it..

You may be right and you may be wrong...Try to relate the things and I am sure you will visualise them. After our parents make us capable enough to stand on our own feet, don’t we start making moves of our life!!! How many times we find our self at a position where we have choices to make and there we make the most rational choice keeping in view the short term and the long term objectives.How many times we decide to do something (like a vocational course) so as to capitalize on its benefits at a later stage in life!!!

Life is the game we are playing against our destiny. In the book of destiny, everything that begins has to come to an end. The beginning is clearly written but the end is not.That’s the reason why you can always listen people saying “you can make your life as you want to” or “You can shape up your fortune”.That’s the MIDDLE game...you play it your way..If you make decisions wisely, you will gain control of your life else you will let others take it. Most of the games are finished during the MIDDLE game only.In other words, most of us give up during the middle part or most struggling part of our life.And they say “FATE is always against us”.At times even I do the same. But great fighters are those, who carry it till the END game. Till the last breath, they will keep on fighting and fighting...At that stage even if you lose, It doesn’t matter a lot because you give your best...And you get the best...

At times I have heard people saying that they have been struggling throughout their life.What can be the explanation of this as per my LIFE-CHESS Theory. It’s pretty simple. They make the moves without a proper strategy.Ask a novice, who loves to play chess but doesn’t know anything about the concepts or the theories of the game. Now he will always fight till he Surrender’s. He will play as per his mind.he will look for the strategies that his mind can formulate...But when you are not good at your basics, how can you expect to get outstanding results.

So, simply his moves will not be properly synchronised. They won’t follow a definite pattern. He will keep on fighting at every front, Defending and Attacking at the same time without knowing from where to clinch victory..Watch two novices play against each other and watch two great chess players playing against each other. Do it for just 15 minutes for each. Trust me, even though you won’t be familiar with the art and science of playing CHESS, it won’t take you long to realize the hidden implication...

Life is Hard and harder is the fight to gain control over it...
Fight for it till the last breath and you still don’t get victory.
Others call it fate; I call it “LIFE & CHESS”.

Regards:
Nishant Kr.


***A chess opening is the group of initial moves of a chess game . Recognized sequences of opening moves are referred to as openings as initiated by White or defenses, as created in reply by Black. There are many dozens of different openings, and hundreds of named variants.
***The middlegame in chess refers to the portion of the game that happens immediately after the opening. During this time, players will attempt to strengthen their positions while weakening their opponent's, both by careful arrangement of the pieces for prepared attacks and defenses and by whittling away at their opponent's numbers.
***In chess, the endgame (or end game or ending) refers to the stage of the game when there are few pieces left on the board.
***In the game of Chess, A variation is like an unorthodox move. This employs great deal of risk but can give you an edge also.
***Combinations are when you sacrifice your piece (white or black, whichever you are playing with) to gain a control in the game.