Chess Essay

fight with her mom, she noticed that her mother didn’t polish her trophies everyday, cut small newspaper items with Waverly’s name, and never hovered over Waverly when she was practicing chess. Waverly felt that her mother had built and invisible wall while Waverly made that wall taller and wider. The next chess tournament Waverly had, she had lost the game and she didn’t see her mom with any emotion as if she was satisfied. “And I could no longer see the secret weapons of each piece, the magic…

yet ten years old, finds herself in a struggle for power with her mother when she becomes a national chess champion. When the power struggle comes to a boiling point, Waverly demonstrates that though her knowledge is great, she has much to learn. At a very young age, Waverly became interested in the game of chess, eventually changing the dynamic between she and her mother.…

In the book Peak by Anders Ericsson, he introduces different kinds of practice, including, purposeful practice, deliberate practice, and what we call naive practice. Deliberate practice is one of the most important practices that we can use to improve anything we want to do, whether it be improving in a sport, learning an instrument, or even adding it to our leisure. For example, if you play on the basketball team, you can always practice over and over again, to try to better yourself. This is…

Waverly Jong is a very talented girl that started playing competitive chess at a very young age. She expanded her knowledge of the game and played in many tough tournaments against opponents that were twice her age and size. As time progressed, Waverly became extremely proficient at chess- so much that “By my ninth birthday I was a national chess champion”(Tan 99). Although she was a very good chess player she struggled developing a loving bond with her mother. Waverly says “in her hands I…

including the school's Chess Club. During that lunch, the members of Chess Club taught me about a chess variant, bughouse, which turns the typically slow-paced individual game into a brisk competition between pairs of players. Six months later, I walked into Georgetown Day School as a student. I dropped by Chess Club so I could see some familiar faces, and somehow they all remembered my name from the 20 minutes they spent with me half a year earlier. I became a regular at Chess Club, even…

The book “The Monkey’s Paw” and the play that we went and watched at ISU were same at some points but they were also different at some spots. The book, like all books, went deeper than the play did. In fact, the book was actually more enjoyable for me because I understood it more. I loved watching the play and reading the book, and now i’m going to compare and contrast them. The plot of the story differed in some spots but in most spots it was the same. One of them is when Mrs. White goes…

are doing. I know as a child I was always delighted when my parents praised me for my work. A good example is I love to play chess, I have played chess since the second grade and my special interest supervisor always came to our school on Friday and we usually do many things but one thing I enjoyed was when we played chess. So, later on she told us of a tournament for chess that had all surrounding counties for special interest groups participating and it was to be held at Troy University. Our…

Reflection I really enjoyed doing this assignment. Through this field experience, I am able to get more involved in our school. Most of my involvement included professional growth in science, PLCs, parent involvement committee, and continuing our chess club. This year has also challenged me a lot as an educator. I started with two big fifth grade classes. Student behaviors have taken a lot of my energy, but pretty soon, we will be getting another fifth grade teacher to help reduce the class…

respects her daughter enough to take her to the chess games. And you can tell the mother loves her daughter because she allowed her to do chess in the first place. Parental love is shown throughout the story by showing the mothers relationship with her daughter. In the beginning the mother says no, but she changes her mind. This shows that the mother loved her daughter very much. She took her time out of her day to take her daughter to these chess matches, she also watched her, and gave her…

child chess prodigy at the age of nine. "By my ninth birthday, I was a national chess champion." (Tan 97). When Waverly was seven-years-old, her older brother received a secondhand chess set. She watched her two older brothers, and she discovered her interest in chess. At first, Waverly did not understand the rules for playing chess. However, she studied the rules from books, from the Chinatown Library. Afterward, she learned "new secrets" from an elder named Lau Po, and became a better chess…