Monday, October 10, 2011

Touche'

The Favorite game at Chez Jensen as of late is Chess.  All except Senor Screamer are afficionados.  Tonight I assented to a match with Nater.  I will admit that there was some assistance to him by Maggie and Katie and that I was not entirely attentive to the game board and a couple of times I showed him how very advantageous the moves he had made really were.  The end result was a complete loss of all of my pieces (except for the king, of course), a pawn that became a queen and a stalemate.  All was fine-- My ego not bruised until he said:  
"Mom, you're not very smart.  You sacrificed yourself a lot."  
He's Right.  I have sacrificed a lot, but I think it's the smartest thing I've ever done.

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