I learned to play when I was 7-8 years old but didn't play too much after that since chess was nothing but an intellectual game that most didn't care to learn. In other words, I was stuck where I was with no chance to learn anything else except the core basics.

When I became a teenager, I suddenly I couldn't have enough, but unfortunately I had no one to play with. I bought some books on openings and studied very hard with in insasiatable hunger to discover the intricasies of this art. I even played with myself until the long hours of the night, but since I had no one to teach me, I soon lost interest.

Little did I know that I was searching for something more than just playing chess. After I while I moved to the USA and lived in NY, continuing to pursue "my career" in chess. I got involved in some beginner's tournaments with a Jewish club who happened to endorse the game. I won some tournaments to my delight but again I had no one to teach me how to play beyond the basics.

Later in life when I married, I joined a chess club called "Chestnuts" and played in club tournaments.

One day I beat a 1800 rated player and took home my "victory" as if that was the goal of my "chess career" because I had beaten a "professional player!"

In the States I taught a friend how to play and he rapidly advanced until we became equal in strength with me although I always retained the upper hand.

After playing in a couple of home tournaments in NY, I sort of gave up playing for good. It lasted for about 30 years.

Now, at 63 being retired, I have once again picked it up but more seriously although I have found what I was looking for that took me beyond the game of chess.

I found out the reason of my existence, my destiny and the love of my life to my sheer delight.

I discovered that the Lord invented chess for our delight and knows all the intricasies and complexities of the game that we will never discover no matter how hard we try.

I discovered the heart of God in a very simple and humble way. This is something that most never ask about, much less discover for themselves.

The truth is that most people are asking the wrong questions therefore they don't get the real answer. As for me chess is like life. It has too many ramifications, traps on the way while the enemy king hides behind his evil followers because he has already planned to kill you, unless we discover his deception in time...

Finally, chess for me is like a battle between good and evil. Life is like that, fortunately for us Jesus won the battle against corruption and dead when He was at His weakest point.

The strenght of God is so vast and limitless that He won the victory over sin and death in the weakness of His Son and thus destroyed the work of the devil once and for all.

Personally, I'm a weak player in life and love it because when I'm weak, I'm strong...

Covenant-Son