Slowly but surely, it's taking over. There's no doubt about it.

The longer I play, the more illusions I see. It starts with the little things. You wonder if you locked the door, shut the blinds, left the light on.

The first book I ever wrote about chess was called, "20 King Pawn Endgames Explained." Originally my idea was to write this book in order to improve my play, since I knew relatively little about these types of endgames. At the time I was living in Guam, as I was sent there for an exercise with the Air Force.

This is a Rook and Pawn endgame. It’s here to serve a short example of how complicated chess can become from a seemingly simple position.

Every move and every line… is incorrect. For everything I see, is a mere shadow of the truth. A falsification, an aberration, an illusion.

Of what to make of myself? Am I to ever become more than a fraud? A dreamer? A charlatan?

Chess is an incredible tool for solving IQ problems, not for weighting EQ questions.