Elena sits across from the President and looks down at the board. She has no doubt that she is about to lose spectacularly. She’d had some skill at this game long ago, but that was when she was still in pigtails and her primary concerns in life revolved around scoring higher on every test and doing better in every match than her older sister had done. She hadn’t played chess as a teenager because she actually enjoyed it; she just wanted to have another way in which she could beat Emma. Too bad that Emma never wanted to play after she joined the Turks.
God, so much has changed since then.
Elena takes a white pawn and makes her opening move. It’s a well known gambit, one she’d read about in a book almost ten years ago and never tried in real life.
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Elena sits across from the President and looks down at the board. She has no doubt that she is about to lose spectacularly. She’d had some skill at this game long ago, but that was when she was still in pigtails and her primary concerns in life revolved around scoring higher on every test and doing better in every match than her older sister had done. She hadn’t played chess as a teenager because she actually enjoyed it; she just wanted to have another way in which she could beat Emma. Too bad that Emma never wanted to play after she joined the Turks.
God, so much has changed since then.
Elena takes a white pawn and makes her opening move. It’s a well known gambit, one she’d read about in a book almost ten years ago and never tried in real life.