“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If contempt for familiarity exists, what then of unfamiliarity? With everything put ‘on ice’, as it were, what is it that remains habitual? Habit aside home is where the heart is and home is where my heart is… .
OTB chess is prohibited but online chess isn’t. The Bedfordshire league was where a homely me began my endeavours and unsurprisingly it is where my loyalties lie. After some thought, I have agreed to participate in the 4NCL, which began as the London league but has expanded into a national league. I chose to play for the only team which plays in the Bedfordshire league, Milton Keynes. Upon the eve of play words for me. The sense of occasion is, of course, lost with play online, and so too the sense of pride is lost. All I can really say is that I have the white pieces and my opponent won’t know what’s hit him… .
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier and simpler.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
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