“We all have many things in common with a chess game. Understanding chess well helps you understand life, and it allows you to think deeper and make the right moves in life.”
The Chess is an ancient game used by kings to plan tactics in war. Later it got popularity as a game which became famous all over the world. This game requires excellent thinking skills to make the right moves. The move you make decides whether you will win or lose in the game.
There are a lot of similarities between human life and the chess game if you observe and understand it carefully. There is a lot to learn from the chess game to live a better life.
How about learning chess today to learn the game of life? In human life, we all have to perform more than one character. Like one person moving all these chess pieces, you also have to make different moves by becoming different characters. Let’s start the game of life.
Even in human life, we all have to start small. From the basic level. Just like this pawn. At this basic level, you have less power, more limits but unlimited bravery to make the first move and to protect your kingdom (Family or business or Job)
When you are beginning in life, we have many chances like we have 8 pawns. We can make one move at a time. If we fail, you can start again with one more pawn. These basic moves teach us lessons for the next levels of our life.
After getting started you get a chance to take a new character with new rules but more power and bravery. Like the bishop, you can make the unlimited number of steps forward or backward in a diagonal path but if there are barriers in the path you can’t move forward but you can destroy these barriers. One barrier in one move.
Even though you have experience in one thing. You need to gain experience in other things, in life, and you have to start at a basic level again to learn a new skill. You can start as a pawn again.
Now after learning a new thing you can experience new power by becoming rook and you have the power to move forward, backward or side wise. Still, you don’t have the power to move over barriers but you can destroy one barrier in one move.
You can even take the knight character and move over pieces in L shape. You still have limits, but you have a new power, and you can destroy one barrier in one move.
Now you can take the character of the queen. Queen is so powerful than all characters like a woman in real life. You can move in all directions taking more than one step in one move and can kill one barrier in one move. You can’t move over other pieces.
Now you can be the king and move in all directions but in only single steps. You have limits, and you need to be protected to protect your kingdom. You can kill anything that stands before you. You have power and influence but limited power.
When you lose all your characters (your characteristics/behavioural traits you gained all your life) which makes you prone to death. That’s why you need to play well making the right moves and decisions in life to live long as a king.
If you lose your characters, assume you are nearing your death and you need to make right moves after thinking well or else it's Time for CHECKMATE. You are dead. Never lose yourself and make the right moves in life and live longer.
Never make the same moves in all the situations. Different situations in life need a different kind of power. Most people play blindly even in life without learning necessary rules and that’s how they fail.
Learn the rules and play well to win more in life. Even in life, we get different powers and different types of limits at different levels of life.
You have two choices. One is to play on both the sides of your life and make your own moves and have absolute control over your life or make moves based on others moves which may not give complete control over your life.
The others who are playing on the other side maybe your family, relatives or society. Whether you like it or not, most of the times there is someone playing on the other side. So you need to learn rules well and make your moves rightly and survive longer with joy and happiness.
“Make the right moves in life.”
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