Benjamin Franklin once said that “Life is a kind of chess.”

I found a book in our local library about the game of chess, and I would like to share what it said about this game with everyone.

“In their grave corner, the Players move their Plodding Pieces. The board detains them until dawn within its strictured bounds where two colors clash. From within, the forms radiate their magic rules. Homeric Castle, Nimble Knight, Armored Queen, Backward King, Oblique Bishop, and Aggressive Pawns. When the Players have departed, when time has consumed them, certainly the ritual will not have ceased.

“In the Orient this war burst into flame whose amphitheatre now is all the earth. Like another game, this game is infinite; Weak King, Slanted Bishop, Carnivorous Queen, Straightforward Rook, and Cunning Pawn. Over the black and white they seek the Path and unleash their armed battle. They do not know that the distinguished hand of the Player governs their destiny.

“They do not know that an unyielding force controls their autonomy, and their days. The Player too is Prisoner of another board of black nights and white days. God moves the Player, and he, the pieces.”

I strongly urge our youth to spend more time reading. There is so much knowledge and information out there to be learned.

CHOICE NASH