It's not time for a drink and a laugh

   Chess, like guitar playing and singing, is a hobby that I can't bear to give up. For various reasons, I haven't been able to touch it again for more than ten years! In 2018, my child entered a special stage of preparing for the senior high school entrance examination. After serious consideration, my family moved to the university closest to my child's high school to live and live. Coincidentally, the chess nest in the university is right downstairs where I live, the distance is too close, the feeling is too direct! In the end, I couldn't resist the temptation of such a fierce noise and such exaggerated sounds of moves, and I began to approach and participate... So I saw several elder chess friends from the first unit assigned to graduate from college. They have all retired to enjoy their old age, but I have been struggling with confusion and hard work, lamenting the fleeting passage of life and time! I used to be the first place in the two chess competitions of this state-owned enterprise at that time, and I got along very well with the then factory leader, the person in charge of my department, and many middle-aged chess enthusiasts in the same unit. One thing that left a deep impression on me is that an elder chess friend from the unit trusted me and asked me to be her daughter's tutor and tutor the junior high school courses. Every weekend, he always prepares meals and drinks and invites me to get together, and after having dinner with his whole family, he helps the children with their homework. Simple, enthusiastic, sincere and good, I feel very warm to me as a newcomer to the society!

    Going back to the present, I saw a few old chess friends who report here at 1:00 pm every day, play chess, argue... Seeing that they can have such a spiritual place to belong, I am really happy for them! 

　　I understand, participate...but I know I can't be in this state yet! I made up four sentences to describe my mood at this time: My heart is like a floating layer of water, the world is not clean, and when it is time to drink wine, we need to see the red sun and the bitter Ming Dynasty!
 

　　What's even more coincidental is that after a few days of participation, I actually met the father of my daughter's martial arts coach and became chess friends! I know my daughter's coach because of martial arts, and I know the coach's father because of chess. It's a coincidence that I can't help but sigh! The world is big, but sometimes it is really small. This kind of experience has happened many times in Kunming!
 

　　Here, too, I was capricious for a few days. One day, in a light rain, from five o'clock in the afternoon, we would squat and stand for a while, and we fought countless rounds with a well-known chess master, a teacher of the school chess team, until it was dark, and the two of us were still alive. Continue to turn on the light of the mobile phone, and fight until nine o'clock in the evening with an empty stomach... So, are you showing off your superior skills? No, the actual result: I lose more and win less! But arguing and having fun are the greatest joys of playing chess at our age! I didn't understand it when I was young, but now I understand!
 

    Here, there have been cases of fights between retired elderly people due to heated arguments about chess, and there have also been cases where the quarrel was too loud, affecting the rest of the residents. , the extreme case of blowing the tabletop off, and an uncle who was too excited to play chess, was admitted to the hospital the next day, and never returned to this place (never came back after recovery)... Even so , The chess features and existence of this place have never been changed by external forces! Perhaps, this is a "unique" way of life and feelings for the elderly that chess lovers cannot give up!
 

　　Here, when there were many people, I experienced the pain of "standing, squatting, moving, moving..." because of lack of seats and tools for playing chess, so I bought some tools for playing chess (chess, table, stool) online. etc.) to everyone, just hope everyone is more convenient and happy, the reason is so simple! Remind by everyone: I have left some words on it. If someone still sneaks in like this, it shows that the current human nature really needs to be reflected!