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Just for the sake of enthusiasm I used to try different permutations and combinations with my chess pieces. Playing with whites makes me impatient. I like to move on with the game instead of developing pieces and manoeuvre things.

I wonder why I can’t attack with the pawn at the outset. Why wait until I make space for the queens and the bishops. E4 and D4 are my openings cos they give me max control over the board straight away

I wonder why we have the Rooks in the corner and the King in the centre. It is a hope less position to start with. Let's keep the king in the corner, Knight around it, Rooks, and Queens, and Bishops in the rest of the part. Why do we need one white bishop and one black bishop? We can have them the way we want.

My idea of a good chess player is the one who knows where to place which piece before the game. And attack or defend accordingly. Another thing that pricks me is that each piece has to obey some rules. Why should the pawn move only one house? Why doesn’t the king move around the way he wants? After all he is the King! Right! Let situation decide how each piece should move. This will make the game interesting also test the skill of the players.

But then it will make the game simple. The game that absorbs you for hours will be over in a couple of minutes.
The real fun is to discharge our duty even when we know there is no future. The black bishop will die but not change itself to white. Being black is his individuality. It will loose its existence but won’t compensate with its characteristics.

When I see at people, I find them similar to these pieces on the chess board. Each one comes with its own uniqueness. Each one has its own powers and has to follow a protocol. They can’t change. They won’t change. But we, as leaders should use each ones quality for our benefit and make them complement each other. The queen has to be at the forefront with all its powers but you always need a pawn to support her.

Chess is a good example of man-management. We have to understand each ones strength and weakness and act accordingly. No one has the advantage at the beginning. But it’s the way we approach the situation within our limitation that defines who survives and who doesn’t. Not one can enjoy any undue advantage.

But the most significant part of the game is the rules that the pieces have to follow. All the pieces cannot have same power. There will be differences. Hence the player has to make a strategy and implement it correctly. If every human had the same ability, things that could have happened are unimaginable. The fun part of it would have been missing for sure. It is because different people having different skills came at different time that the world has come so far till 2009 AD

Hence it’s better to have a set of rules and follow them religiously. There is no question of why, why not and why me. The pawn that reaches the other end of the board can transform into a queen. But it cannot change its course even if there is threat of life.