2021 Day 239 Task – Merdeka Virtual Chess Competition

As much as I would target and do my official tasks for today, I failed to do it. I realized I have plenty of pending tasks hanging around my back. But today, the first half of the day was focused on a virtual chess competition that I participated in. It was my first time participating in a virtual chess competition. I felt really nervous and targeted only to win 1 game out of 7 games. It turned out that I managed to won 2 games and I was ranked number 143 out of 163 participants. If I am ranked like this when I was studying long long time ago, I will feel super miserable. But luckily, this is just a chess game and I am very amazed with many the majority of the participants who are very excellent in the Chess game, a strategist game.

Those who are very good in Chess could be from various background. I take for example, my uncle from Kedah. He did not excel academically and he is a trailer / bus driver. But, I never managed to bit him in a chess game. He has his vision, strategic move, manage to create plenty of illusion to make me think differently. My simple conclusion is chess master greatness is not proportional with ones cognitive intelligence.