Hello my friend. I will share with you a little about me. First of all, I chose my username, “King-Advocate” because I personally love to speak for the King in the game of life as well as in the game of chess. I hate it when my King is slandered, abused or even when people use His name to express frustration and unabated anger.

You probably have noticed that I wasn’t speaking about chess at the moment. I was referring to the eternal King who rules in the heavens and on earth from the other half of the universe.

Jesus is the King of righteousness and the embodiment of all truth. My way of “protecting” Him is to make an effort to live by the truth He has revealed to me through His word, the Holy Scriptures.

The game of chess has some similarities with my life in Christ. For example, we usually try to castle early in order to safeguard the king from being “slandered” by the opponent. We need to speak for the king and reveal how important he is throughout the entire game, otherwise we will lose.

When we develop our pieces early and think clearly, make the right moves and advance in the game, we are not only trying to ultimate get the opponent’s king, but we are also trying to protect our king from unwanted weakness that we usually create throughout the game.

We need to guard our king from his opponents.

I believe we must all protect the king in a game of chess. We do that by forming a strong defense, and by being ready for any unforeseen eventuality.

We need to guard the king if we want to win our game.

In real life, I wonder who we are trying to speak for. Do we speak for ourselves only? Are we our own advocates? Are we the kings of our own lives? If we are, who will speak for us when we are exposed, or when we are weak and feeble and wind up having no one to come to our aid? In our own life, we may not have a bishop, or a pawn, or even Queen to protect us, but if we invest in those whom God has given us, we may wind up having the King of glory speaking on our behalf loud and clear.

But even so, at the end, we will all be checkmated, whether we like it or not. Chess is just a practice game that delays our inevitable end. But if we choose to crown the real King, we might find out that even if life is about to checkmate us, we still can win the game by checkmating death!

As for me, I love life and I love to play chess as a challenge to my limited abilities. My goal is to form relationships with people and laugh with them at the blunders we make or about the foolishness of our own moves. Real life is similar to our games because we all have our own inconsistencies.

At the end it really doesn’t matter whether we are a great players or not. What it matters really is how we react to our wins, to our losses and to our draws. Our character is at stake.

In your case, I would suggest that do your best, form relationships with other players that think alike and try to build your friendship with them. You will get to enjoy your games even more. Now, if you want to improve in your game, please make sure you don’t ask me. I have my own issues!

I believe that sooner or later (Probably much later), I will learn how to play this game more effectively. For the most part, I think this gem called “chess” helps our brains to think in an orderly manner. I don’t know if that is completely true or not, but I tend to believe it is a fact.

One last thing, no matter how good you think you are in chess, there is always someone better than you. Even Magnus Carlsen has to continuously prove that he is the best, that is, until someone else comes along and beats him to the ground without mercy.

“Magnus’s kingdom is not an everlasting kingdom.” It will be stolen from him sooner or later. That is a guarantee! I guess it must be very lonely to be at the top…

Thank you for reading my home page, and please forgive me for rambling too much, I just love to write. Sorry about that.

King_Advocate