Welcome back to the Daily Mastermind, George Reich III, with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. And I'm here with an awesome guest today, so we've got to know over the last little while, John Adair. How are you doing? Doing well, George.
It's a pleasure to be on your podcast today. Yeah, we've had some interesting conversations. We got a topic that might come out of a little left field for people, but amazing strategies and tactics you can take from it. No matter whether you're listening as a business owner, you're trying to create your life.
So let me give a little bit of an introduction here of our guest. John's a writer, a poet, lifelong lover of chess. You know, he became playing chess at 10 years old, top by his father and stepfather. And he's competed in US chess Federation tournaments.
And he wrote a book. He's an author and he wrote a book, Chess Basics, which has an English and a Spanish edition. He's got a couple other books, a really good one on quotations that's coming up. But today what we're going to do is we're going to talk about chess fundamentals and timeless strategies that can inspire you, not only to play better, but sharpen your thinking and business in life.
So we're really, really glad to have you here, John. Maybe what you could do is give us a little bit of your backstory, kind of how, where did he come from? And how did you come up to this? Because usually, you know, a lot of listeners are like, you know, back story, you know, we get a lot of story on a lot of different people.
But you got a very interesting backdrop to why you wrote this book. So bring us up to speed with why you did this. Sure. I guess it was back in 2020 that my brother got to call when, I should give you the backdrop.
We were in full COVID mode. We were in lockdown mode. Nobody was doing anything. I live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
So Georgia was really eerie. They had the whole city locked down during COVID. Got a call from my brother one day. Dan, he lives about three houses down from me at that time.
And he says, he says, Aidan is starting to play chess. Well, Aidan is his grandson. He was 10 years old at the time. And as you've just stated, that's when, that's the same age I was when I started to play chess, I was 10 years old.
But Michael, get out of 10. Aidan's playing chess equals. Yeah, and he's really good, supposedly. So that just got my wheels turning.
You know, we were on lockdown. We weren't working. My brother had started a tour company here in Las Vegas called Mr. Las Vegas Doors.
Yeah, sold back our company. But I was one of his drivers there working part time anyway. And, but we weren't working. So I decided to write a little tutorial for my grand and a few Aidan who I positively adore.
I should tell you, Aidan was a very, very bright kid. When he was over here, they dropped by Aidan over for me to take care of him. Dan and his wife were going out to town or whatever. But he, I would give him these toothpick, these toothpick geometric forms.
They were, they were cobbles. They were cobbles that needed to be solved. They gave him probably three or four over a two year period. Well, Aidan had always solved them, but they kept getting harder as they went along.
I remember the hardest one that I had given to him. He had been working on it for about 25 minutes. Remember, this was like an eight year old kid. Yeah, you're challenging him.
Yeah. And I went up to him, he's sitting over in the living room behind me. And I said, Aidan, do you want me to tell you the answer? And he looks up at me, his eyes were watering.
He goes, no, Uncle Sean, no, I don't want you to tell me. Okay. Okay. That's fine.
And anyway, he solved it about 10 minutes later. This was a very tough geometric toothpick problem. So anyway, with that in mind, I wanted to write for him a little tutorial. It turned out to be about 68 pages long.
It was just basic stuff that I had learned when I was playing chess. And it was some stuff in there I wish that other people had told me, you know, as I was going to matter. So anyway, I put it together. There was just some basic stuff about chess.
I tried to break it up into some lessons. Came out to about 68 pages. I went to one of the local Kinkos. I had it spiral bound, put a nice plastic page on the front.
And it just so happened, I think they were, my brother had announced this to me in July. The family was coming up to visit with that grandpa. They were coming out in December for Christmas holidays. And I finished it, just in time to give it to his mother, my niece, Krista.
I said, this is for, this is for Aiden. She goes, what do you know, Uncle Sean? This is just fantastic. She says, are you thinking about publishing it?
And George, the truth be told, that was the furthest. Never even entered my name. Yeah, you were just loving it. Yeah.
I was just loving it. And so anyway, gave it to Aiden. It's very appreciative. And I was looking at it right away.
I think we played a game shortly after that, showing them some stuff. But anyway, I went back home after that experience, George, and I looked and I thought about what my niece had said, about publishing it. And the truth be told, there was no way on God's re-nirt that I could have published the unedited walk in that form. Riddled with typos, all kinds of stuff that could have been written much tighter and so on and so forth.
But I met a sit for about six months. And I think about six months later, I decided to rewrite one of the chapters in there, one of the lessons. And it came out really, really good. And that got me to wanting to rewrite and actually expand it to 10 lessons.
And that started the launch really of writing the chessbook that is now called chess basics. Yeah, it's interesting because it's interesting how it came about. And there's principles in this. I really want to make sure people understand.
Someone unpack it for a minute. So a couple questions that came to mind for me. Number one, you grew up and you were drawn to this game in the first place. So there's people that are out there that have passions for things that, first of all, they would never have any clue could turn into anything successful like this.
So I'm curious first, what drew you to chess? And how did that kind of shape your life over the years? What was the reason that you had been drawn to it? And sort of had this passion and expertise, which I like to call you, uniqueness to chess?
Yeah, good question. I saw my dad. My dad would come over. He had already, they had already divorced.
My mom and dad had already divorced several years before. But my mom always stayed friends with him. And he would come over. Usually it was to pick us up and take us to a movie.
And then it was like either a John Wayne Western or a Jerry Lewis comedy movie. But sometimes he would sit down with my stepfather and play a game of chess. Well, I was fascinated by the, you know, I didn't even know how the pieces look. But I would look at them.
And of course, I learned how the pieces moved by watching them play. So, you know, after several months of watching them play, every time he would come over, he would play a game with my stepfather. I begged my dad to play a game. You know, I knew some of the basics already how to move the pieces.
And he would always wipe me out in about four or five moves. Yeah, best lesson there. Yeah. Came out with the Queen real quick, you know, and I go home, holy moly.
So anyway, he wiped out my whole king side with the Queen Salvo right away. And so I just was fascinated by the game from that time. I was 10 years old. I just turned 10.
And I think it kind of just grew out of that. It was kind of slow passion. I would play with friends that knew how to play I would go up to strangers and stuff. So yeah, you're right.
I just had a passion for the game that went along. I kept learning and then started reading books, started analyzing my games, that kind of stuff. You know, it's what's interesting. And it's a note that if you're listening to this, this episode is a really cool core lesson.
And that is there are things in life that you're naturally drawn to. And you were drawn to that. You had a passion for it. And but you continue to pursue it.
And a lot of people don't. And then all of a sudden, this opportunity came up for you to write this booklet for your grand nephew and it turned into something that you know, you went further with. And then, you know, turned into an opportunity. So I'm curious what made you decide to go that extra level and create the book.
Because you know, you did this for him. That was your purpose. You did it. You got some good feedback.
But you also, I'm curious what made you decide to go down this route of being a writer and writing the book because then you're now doing another writing. What kind of pivoted in your life that made you want to become a writer, not just this, you know, person that's passionate about chess. Right. I think I got a good question.
I think I always had the passion for writing from an early age too. That I think it started at 10 years old, started probably a little bit later, like around 14 or 15, you know, when I was in grade school. At that time, at that time, George, I was going to a small little grade school over in the San Fernando Valley called Dixie Canyon and Abbott School. But here's a little story that I just just came to mind right now.
There were in our teacher asked us to write book reports. And they said there was no limit on the book reports that you could write during the class of during the semester. Right. So anyway, there was usually I found out there was always the girls were the brightest one in the class.
You know, always that girl over in the corner and she was the smartest one. Anyway, long story short, I actually wrote one of one book reports for that class when I was in the fifth grade at Dixie Canyon Avenue School. Well, the next closest person to me, I think, was at nine book reports. So I always had a I always had a thing for starting developing a little bit later for me, like when I was about 14 or 15 writing right, silly little things and you know, you're forcing in the teachers and professors later would always want your class assignments.
But I think in my senior year of high school is when it really started kicking it, I would offer friends to write a letter. They had to write a letter, write a letter to start. I said, let me help you with that letter. So I just I think you mentioned to me when we when we talked before that, you know, there was a point where you're you know, the loss of your brother also kind of helped you use that as an opportunity to kind of turn to to writing as a way of healing.
And you know, I just had a Franklin Planner podcast. We did the other day where we talked about the power of writing and things like that. So I just thought it was an interesting thing to add is you've got this unique talent passion for writing and chess, but you really at this point for your grand nephew and then with the loss of your brother really turned into something that you utilized compound that with COVID, right? Right.
That helps you, correct? That's right. George. And I started with my brother, as you mentioned, after Walsam, my brother back in 2000, actually 1996, we lost our brother, Robert, and we were all hurting us, the family.
My mother was totally destroyed. And one of the things, you know, I wrote a letter to my brother. I started to write a letter to my brother. And then I said, well, you know what?
I think I'm going to write it in Spanish because I felt that Spanish lent itself more to the types of things that I wanted to say to him. Got it. And so I started to do it. That started feeling good.
I started feeling better. And then it kind of turned into a poem, a poem in Spanish with like 24 stanzas. It took me two years and nine months to write. My Spanish was a little bit rusty, man, um, you know, so I had to up my game.
But after the whole project was finished, it did bring me a great deal of intercom and relief and acceptance, I guess, lack of a lot to be said for just that power of writing. And I think that, you know, people, whether it's in their life or business or anything else, whether that's a natural talent or not, there's a big healing power in that. So let's pivot and turn our focus from it to the book because the book isn't just a bunch of fundamentals and lessons. And I was really surprised to see just the massive size of the chess industry, both players and tournaments and things like I thought of it as like, oh, that's a game people play, but man, this is a major, major industry.
And as you start to dig in, you start to realize the strategy and the techniques and those types of things. So talk to me about the book itself, because, you know, chess has so many different ways to be applied in life, but just the book itself and how you put it together and what it does. Sure. Thank you.
Um, George, one of the things that might work in this is going to sound funny to you. One of the things that sets it apart, I would say 98 out of 100 chess books out there, do not have something so simple as a vocabulary section. Do not have that. I wanted a vocabulary section in there that brings in culture and the lingo and everything.
So now you're absorbing chess culture, right? And it's about my vocabulary sessions about three pages. Now I did look at some book, a dusty old chess book that I had in the closet. The guy did have a vocabulary section in there.
It's a total joke. It's stuff that you would never use in a million years. It has some stuff about the German chess federation. So I wanted stuff that had to do with tactics and strategy that could be applied and a chess player could talk about that with another chess player, it would be understood.
So I wanted to bring I wanted to bring chess culture to the book. So I do have a three page just alone on vocabulary. Another section that I have is just some very, very chess-based. You know, in the book, one of the things I mentioned there, you see a lot of chess games that are illustrated, maybe in a magazine, kind of sell up to Keelau or a drink or a cigarette, whatever.
And it never ceases to amaze me to see the chessboard set up incorrectly, where you'll have a black square in the right hand corner. And chess books never address that. Maybe it's told what my book is dedicated to beginning players. But this is basic white square in the right hand corner.
That's absolutely based on the setup of the King and Queen. What's the rule for how they set up in the middle? So you have the setup of vocabulary and chess basics, which means anybody and everybody can get it. But I thought it was also interesting that your book highlights great players, quotes from legends, even attributes about me fishing.
Like what you really did add a lot of context to this book. So keep going. What else is in it? Yeah.
Yeah. So like you said, I have these great player profiles. I've met some of the great players there. I've actually had small interactions with them.
Like one of them was a Russian grandmaster that I talk about in the book. Well, because of the fact that I did meet him, we did press flesh. I did follow one of his games on the chest room. Eddie Gufell, who himself was a giant in the chess world, wrote over a hundred books, visited over 80 countries through his life.
So anyway, I have some highlights on him. Magnus Carlson, who just stepped down as the reigning world champion. He held that position for 10 years or 12 years, but he just recently stepped down. I think it was 24.
I talk about him. I talk about a woman, chess master. What a fascinating story. That is the father of homeschooled history girls, sometimes six, seven hours a day, just on chess.
But guess what? It's the strongest chess siblings in the history of the game ever. Well, there's so many parallels of chess to life and business and strategy. And so it is interesting that I got kind of went down the rabbit hole with you on this.
The interesting facts that I learned and the size and scope of it, but you also decided to write an English and Spanish edition. What made you decide to do the Spanish edition? Well, right. So the publishers contacted me after the English book had already come out and was already published on Amazon and we're getting some sales and whatnot.
The publishers contacted me and they said, John, you know what? I should mention that the publishers was all Latino group. It was true Latina women that owned the company. They have a staff of seven, including two PhDs on the staff.
And so we had hit it off from the beginning, but she says to me, one day she goes, John, we'd love to publish your book in Spanish. Well, I'm from the Spanish culture. My mother was born in Argentina. I said, I think that's a fantastic idea.
And so anyway, we went with the Spanish edition. It took about almost close to a year. They wanted to get it right that the translation and everything. I said, it's probably going to come out thicker.
I said, indeed, your name is Indiana. I said Spanish usually takes some more words to say the same thing than it does in English. But it came out. I think it was just like a couple pages longer.
They did an excellent job. They wanted to they wanted to do it. I just asked one favor of the publishers. I said I had written a piece before just for the fun of it on Mexico's very first international grandmaster, gentlemen by the Arlo story.
I just wanted them to include that piece in the book, which would have been an edition. And they said, we'd love to do that. And so so we added we added that one eight page article, a carlo story. Yeah, it's it is fascinating to me.
And I think when people are listening to this, they're they're hearing things about, you know, you've got this passion, you leaned into, you had this opportunity to go down the road and just the scope that is taken because you leaned into that. And you know, there's a whole direct, indirect correlation to chess and strategy and life and business and stuff as well. But I think it's a great testament to what's happening. And it's and it's through that process.
But you've also now really embraced the authorship of writing books and things as well. So it's a great testament. Well, I'm curious, because you mentioned before that life, you know, like chess requires a lot of strategy and purpose and things. What lessons have you have you really taken from this in life?
And maybe there's a young chess players out there or individuals, even entrepreneurs and business owners, like what is it that you feel is such a parallel that you would you would say about this? No, I would say. And I think Magnus Carlson would agree with this too. He's probably the highest, the highest rate of player ever in the history of the game.
He's the one that was world champion for 10 years. Well, his one of his teachers for one year was the Russian grandmaster Gary Kasparov. So he was just, but anyway, I do agree with him. Chess teaches you to make decisions, to make decisions under some very tough circumstances and some to pursue in a very short period of time, too.
That's another thing about chess that some people may not understand or realize is that when you go to a tournament, these are clock events. You're playing again. You can't just sit there for two hours a bit. You know, you're that's an uncomfortable situation.
Yeah, you're playing for time. And then you press the clock that activates the other guys. He presses the clock and activates your clock and the clock is going tick, clock, tick clock. So you got to come up.
So I think decision making is one of the things that chess teaches young people. You've got to whether it's a good move, a bad move or a medium move. You still got to make that move. Yeah.
Decision making is this one of the parallels in life. And I have some great worlds under the success, success and winning in the block that have to do with decision making. That's one of the criteria, one of the elements that makes successful people successful. Yeah, it's there's so many because, you know, thinking strategically, thinking many moves ahead, knowing where you're going.
This isn't a random game, but yourself into uncomfortable situations and making decision because the size of this for entrepreneurs is a big thing as well. You know, so I'm curious, you know, for somebody who maybe is just learning chess, right? They're like, oh, that game sounds so complicated. And I mean, I just play it, but you know, whatever, you know, because it does require a little bit of strategy and things like that.
Or they're hesitant. Let's say somebody wants to learn chess or they're hesitant. What are the first principles or mindset shifts that they need to adopt to kind of get started into that game? Yeah, sure.
I would say just really play, you know, asking somebody, what are the my neighbors is about four houses down? She bought a blog and she's had me meet some friends of hers, but came over with their son that they bought a book and saw what I said. Linda just set up the board. Just play just actually to ask a simple game.
Even if you get wiped out and fight, just start playing. That's that's the beauty of the game. What a great lesson in life, right? Most people just don't start.
Yeah. Yeah, just get started. Just play. Just dive in there and then things will start to come into focus.
Then of course, if you read my book or any chess book, for that matter, you start applying some of those principles that are in there and things start to come together. You go, Oh, yeah, I never thought about that. Yeah. You know, it's, it's your, your great example, one of the reasons I wanted to have you on the show is your great example of somebody who took their passion, leaned into it, created some opportunity around it, and then it actually took you down the path.
And I wasn't going to do this on this on this interview, but I wanted to do, I wanted to actually, I made a note here to ask you this led you into this book of quotations that you're going to be doing. And it's a curated book of quotations. Let's be, let's be very specific because I think this is going to be a real big, a big hit, but you've chosen this and kind of collected these over the last, gosh, I don't know what, 24 years or something you've been doing this, 2000. Yeah.
How, how, how has this helped kind of shape things that you're doing? Because I think a lot of people are hesitant to lean into the things they love. And they don't realize that stuff they're doing can turn into opportunity for themselves. So talk to me just a minute about this book that might, that's going to be coming out here real soon.
Yeah, sure. So I think once again, you've got a passion for something, and I like the way you say it leaning into it. And this particularly started with a visit with my daughter, she was over in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And on the last day of a visit, I was out there for three or four days, she said, I got a surprise.
I'm not going to tell you what it is. But anyway, she invited me to go see the new Paralympic Museum over in Colorado, spring Colorado. So we went there and I was just blown away. It was really well done.
It's a huge, huge building. And I could tell that they had, they got professional curators in there to do on this museum. You just tell by the layout and everything. But there was some fan tip.
You know, they'd have these huge, you know, like more or five times the size of a normal person, but they'd have the person up there, the cutout, then this quote underneath it, I call this is just, you know, it's just fantastic. Well, it's close that you don't see them within the everyday. So anyway, one story short, I came away with publicly in or 11 great quotes. First, when I got back, when I got back home, that led me to investigate some other people from previous, from previous Olympics.
And, you know, so next thing you know, I got like 20 quotes now, just in the sports realm of their alone. So it started, it started with that. And I, when I got the new quotes, I went back to the notebook that I had had of these collective quotes and I started adding them. And I said, wait a second, why would I just write a book on these?
Because these are, and plus what I had from the previous 20, some odd years, these are just fantastic quotes. And they're in all realms to all those on Zen, motivational thinking, all of success and winning. Now you got the sports stuff added in there, you know, so different categories. So I said, I should probably should write a book.
This is fantastic stuff. I was getting a little bit of feedback from some people too. And what I found out was, too, and you probably found this out yourself. Everybody loves a great quote.
Yeah, they really do. Are they are the things that people turn to, especially if you look online, like they turn to when they're looking for inspiration and motivation and they're looking for because they can also relate it. There's always a story behind it and things like this. And that's a, that's a powerful tool.
If you're, whether you're building a business, living your life or whatever, quotes really are a tool for you. Yeah, yeah, they are. And it's surprising to me. I actually did sneak up.
I mean, kind of surprised me the level of enthusiasm and acceptance of books. No, I was down at the supermarket. Well, when Dan was talking to the lady, the clerk, there, and you're going to write a book, quote, quote, you know, she almost read a salivating, I love quotes. I, you know, it's very, very, I, this is the girl at the supermarket.
Yeah. So I have this crazy how passionate like this is why, like people wouldn't think about quotes, just things like this, but that's why I say I can't say it enough. Like you, you know, you've shared this advice before. It's like, find your purpose and if you can't do that, follow your passion.
And so I really love that. And I love what you've been doing. And I'm curious, you know, if you had to sort of leave the audience with a piece of advice or wisdom about life, learning legacy, something like that, I try to ask this almost like, what would that, what would your advice be? Get involved, get involved, stay involved, do different stuff.
Get uncomfortable. Go before a group and speak. What did I say? That's the number one fear most people, I joined the, I joined the council.
I was actually elected to a council in Los Angeles and I had to get up before people speak. Yeah. You got butterflies in your stomach and everything. Just do it.
Get out there. Do stuff at some comfortable for you. Push yourself out into different stuff. I think the main thing I would tell people, get involved.
And that's true. Follow your passion. If you have a passion, follow it. A lot of times I think you have a dear purpose too.
Yeah. And that's why I love how you said that actually get involved in life. You know, you had, you know, multiple careers and this type of thing. And who would have known if you hadn't been involved in life, how, how things would have turned to the basics and the quote book and stories and memories and things with your family.
And, you know, that is probably one of the best pieces of advice because so many people, especially, you know, entrepreneurs and business owners and people that try to create their life and do their thing. And they want to find that thing. But successfully, you know, happiness and purpose drive things, but you'll never find that if you don't just get involved. I love that.
Yeah. You got to get out of the game. Well, space to stay focused to get out there. Absolutely.
And I know we got a little off topic with the basics, but I want to make sure that if people want to or they thought about how they could use a topic like this, get involved in chess and things, what's the easiest way for them to do that? Would it be to go to Amazon and we can we can certainly put those links in the show notes as well? Absolutely. You go to Amazon.
If they want to purchase like what go to Amazon purchase the book, just basics or the Spanish version, which is a concept of plastic, those that I had rest. So it's the same book, but just in Spanish. But to get involved, if people want to get involved in chess, I would definitely turn them loose on YouTube. There's a universe of stuff out there.
They can watch games. They can watch games. They can see interviews with these chess masters. Like you said earlier, and you said something very interesting, George.
You said you were just blown away at the chess called massive size. Yeah. You know, with the interviews and the tournaments and these things and the grandmasters and everything, it's a whole universe out there. People would be surprised to find out.
I'm sure there's the same thing with people with doing quilty. It's probably a whole little universe out there. But the chess, I would direct them to YouTube to get started to get yourself a good book, go to YouTube, see some of these chess masters, talk about basic principles to a class. Maybe they're even up there with the blackboard.
Maybe they're discussing stuff and they got the chessboard over to the left. You can see the pieces moving. Yeah. And most of these guys that are on YouTube, I have to say, are really positively just fantastic teachers and tutors.
That's just one strategist. Yeah. And it's it does really bring to people wouldn't think that this is that. But there may be passions that they have and things that they're doing that they don't realize how big the world is for things.
And so, you know, you aren't until you get in there, but I have learned some things from chess and I think the strategy, the involvement, things like that, have makes a big difference for you in every area of your life. So I think so. I think so. There's a lot of principles that you can take from the game of chess, a gap that took to the game of life, if you will.
Yeah. And you know, you're asking, you were talking a little while ago, I think it was Charlie of all people. He gave me the name. There's a couple of people that really influenced and mentored him when he was coming along.
One of them was a coach, basketball coach, college basketball coach, Don Meyer, and he had some fantastic goals. But one of them is life is a, what is that? Is the team sport? Yeah.
He's what you got to get out there. He got to get out there. Yeah. And you know, I think there's so many lessons to be learned, but the success is in the, is clues in all this stuff.
And that's why people need to do it. Well, I certainly appreciate having you on. And, you know, and for those of you that are listening, I want you to take away a few different lessons and definitely connect with John, I'll put a bunch of the links in the show notes that you can do that. But, you know, look, it's never too late to start living the life you were meant to live, the one that you want to live in.
But you do need to get out there. You do need to get out there. You've got to get involved. You've got to take action.
And so hopefully this is kind of inspired you a little bit to do that and giving you some strategies and tactics at the same time. Is there anything else that you want to leave our guests with? The skip now there. Oh, there we go.
Okay. I lost you. So let's, let's do that again. Cause I can clip that part out.
So, so John, is there anything else you want to leave our guests with before we take off? Yeah, absolutely. In the book, book, the English and Spanish versions, there's a nice tribute to Bobby Fisher and there he was my favorite player growing up. Of course, you had the backdrop of the Cold War going on between the United States and the Soviet Union as the background.
What a backdrop to have. Right. And so, you know, he was pressure was building up and you had to play Boris Spasci from the Soviet Union, you know, and but anyway, I have a nice tribute in there to Bobby Fisher. Been working on that piece probably for about 15 years.
I redid it. I had it. I published that piece many, many years ago, but then I reread it for the book and it came out really nice. But for the Spanish edition, I have a nice tribute for Mexico's very first Grandmaster, just grandmaster, his name is Carlos Story.
He's quite an incredible person, George. Picture a 20 year old Mexican kid who had moved to the United States from from Mexico when he was 10 years old. So all of his main formative years in his childhood was in the United States, New Orleans. Now he's a 20 year old kid.
He goes to Moscow in 1925, huge international tournament, all the greatest players in the world are there. And he his round, I think was the round 11. He's up against a former world champion, not any world champion. He's up against Emmanuel Lasker, who still to this date has the record for the longest championship, just shy of 27 years.
There's 26 years, 10 months and so many days. He's up against, he's up against Emmanuel Lasker. Carlos had the Carlos had the white pieces, but he beats this former world master. And I tell him the article just because he's a don't think he was on any kind of decline.
He stays strong for another 10 or 12 years. He was still the number one or two player in the world for the next 10 or 12 year. And Carlos Story, this 20 year old unknown Mexican kid beats him in of such an elegant and beautiful and convincing manner. So look for that article in the book.
It's a great article. It tells a lot about just history, chess culture, for any even for even a non chess player, you just want to read pretty intense story. Yeah, pretty intense. And then of course the piece on Bobby Fisher, like I say, this probably taken about 15 years to write, but he was my favorite chess player.
And he was one of my heroes when I was a teenager. Wow. Yeah. So that's just a great examples of the entertainment value, the knowledge, the history, the stuff that's included in this book.
So yeah, go check it out. We're we're super excited about it. I've learned a lot and I hope that I hope that those of you that are listening really take some action in your life, follow your passions, do what you need to do. And like I said, let us know what you're doing.
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