After this, I have yet to write more on it. I don’t know how to keep it going and I don’t know how to end it. Maybe someday I’ll finish this piece
“Your move kid.”
“I’m 24 Reg, or have you forgotten?”
“I haven’t. I’m 76? Technically, I could call your father kid.”
“Well it’s not like I can do anything anymore. You got my queen.”
“Tommy, Tommy. She’s just a queen.”
The younger player reacted as if he had been told, “it’s just a gun,” during a gunfight. The elder chuckled.
“What about the knight, the bishop and the rook? If played and placed correctly, they can be more deceptively deadly than just a queen and any other piece. I thought you’d have learned that by now, reading that chess book of yours.”
“You know, I thought I was gonna get you with this trick I learned on page 44.”
“How about reading the whole book first instead of-”
“Yeah, yeah, I know.”
“Of course you do.” The old man laughs. “You know you’ve come a long way since I met you the first time. Seems like you’ve really gotten control of your life.”
“I couldn’t have done it without you old man.”
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