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Like, Unlike

by Mary Elizabeth, as retold by Rick Kennedy

I’ll bet that Bobby Fischer said “thank you” to his older sister when she taught him how to play chess.

That’s one more way – number 11 by my count – that my brother is not like Bobby Fischer.

Of course, he says I’m nowhere near like Judit Polgar, either. That’s probably true. If someone teases Judit, she just checkmates them. She is too much of a lady to kick them in the shins.

Not like me.

Another thing: Mr. Fischer never cheated.

I never even knew you could cheat in chess until I got to this position in a game against my brother:

It looks simple: his White pawn captures my Rook and promotes to a Queen; I capture his Queen and then win the game.

“Give up,” I told him. “Even the World Champion couldn’t get you out of this mess.”

“Gloomy times call for bright solutions,” he babbled, and pushed his pawn straight-forward to the eighth rank – not even bothering to take my Rook! “I can promote it to anything I want,” he chuckled. “So – I promote it to a Knight. A Black Knight! Checkmate!”

After that, I didn’t speak to him for three whole days. When I did, I told him I had found out that the rule book says you have to promote to a piece of the same color.

My brother should have lost, and he hates losing.

Ok, that’s one way he is like Bobby Fischer.

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