THE CHESS PSYCHOLOGY OF FRIENDSHIP

Exclusion is never a way forward on our shared path to freedom and justice

The Chess Psychology of Friendship

Like the game of chess you read your opponent's move and allow him to be overconfident as he undermine your critical and cramped position.

What rules of engagement to employ? You don't attack if there's no reason to attack neither make a hasty retaliatory move to thwart your opponent's aggression which might compromise your still shaky and unstable position. Let him trust and glory in his momentary spatial advantage as he commit in pleasure and overextend his forces.

How do you respond ? You simply make a developing move and further improve your status or position. Then show in the end one's positional advantage and what both have loss or gain. You simplify the game by exchanging major pieces. Hence exemplifying miscalculations and early errors made by your opponent early in the game.

Then in the end every dubious moves and ulterior motives constituted a blunder and transmuted in the position that is later lost or too late to redeem and recover.

The same thing applies in the chess game of life and friendships. It takes years to build, much time and effort invested, great focus to maintain but only seconds or one careless move to destroy it ...

by Neil Aranda 07/26/2017

Author's Note

If you happened to be a chess player. What is your thematic response to the rare, unorthodox - Exclusion Variation of the Friendship Defence ?

Reviews

[gabrielle]

The goal of chess is to win through strategy while the goal of friendship is to foster bond. Perhaps, if we constantly guard the actions of another towards us, it would show that there's no intent at all to strengthen the relationship.

[NeiL ArandA]

Thanks Gab, I'm glad you continue to read and patronize my writings. And of course decipher the authors hidden meaning. Outside the Poetry world, I still have contacts with people whom I came to know and get to know for brief moment. Unfortunately as one decides to hijack the entire group and mesmerize them with his/her idle mind and busybody charisma. There's no room for me to thrive. Subtle and evasive may it be their antics. It doesn't escape my gifted poetry, chess experience and chosen profession to read their moves and minds. I penned it for me to simply transcends such an audacious miscalculations. Hence the question in the authors note.