Checkmate

“Our life is like a chessboard game, some talented genius people proclaim to be the kings and queens. Some ordinary people are just pawns. But those who work hard and never give up and has a goal could be a knight…enough to defeat kings and queens in a single move.″

I received this message thru text and I condemn the person who wrote this quote.

First of all, the writer did not really associate life with a chessboard game. He just used a relative importance of the pieces to the pre-existing niche of the people that may be in the position of the chess officials.

Another, being talented or being a genius does not give you the right to be royalty, or be in position of rule, if that’s what the writer wants to express. If I were to relate intellectuals to chess pieces, I say a bishop or what is nearer to a political adviser or a vizier. And what is intelligence relative to the appropriate chess piece? In contrast, yes, an intellectual can be a king or queen in a field, but that does not highlight the comparison to a chess game, since a king is a weak piece, and a queen is a more versatile official. Therefore the degree of importance of the king and the queen varies. The loss of a king does not equate to losing a queen.

Ordinary people, as he say, are pawns. In this premise, he compares the capability of ordinary people to be in that of pawns. The given fact that the writer presented is that brighter individuals can be royalty, and ordinary ones are not. This leaves out the other chess pieces to rot in anonymity. This gives a black and white view of the society, that violates social concepts of diversity in human nature. But the writer adds an exception to his black and white view of humanity, a knight.

In his quote, the status of a knight is attainable thru hard work and determination which is true in pursuing knighthood. But still, that does not refer to a knight chess piece nor his predetermined characteristics such as moves, shape and capability. And as he stated there that knights can defeat the kings and queens in a single move. Idiocy! ALL CHESS PIECES CAN DEFEAT ANYTHING BY A SINGLE MOVE. You don’t defeat chess pieces by combined attack, double attack, back attack, sneak attack, triple-combo dynamite attack or such things that does not refer to a single move. If he refers that knights can “Jump” on pieces to reach the queen or king, that does not make his statement any more significant.

The person who wrote this quote did not saw it through. Maybe he just wrote it for nonsense reasons or maybe he was trying to impress a girl. If you read this, oh great writer, i challenge you to make a coherent one.