The wages of the internet

For anyone who knows chess, I was playing a game recently where the opponent refused to accept my offer for a draw. If you can take a look at the situation above, it's a draw. There's no way that one king can get through to kill anything and the pawns are all stuck. So why not draw?

My comrade in chess declined a draw and marched his king all around until, more than a hundred moves later, we finally had a draw by repetition. I'm not angry, just wondering why march your king about for nothing. It wasn't like the opponent was trying to penetrate the great wall here.

Or maybe, that was it. The other player loved the freedom of the desert behind the wall and just wanted to walk around? Maybe they were trying to win on time, damn the way it looks.

#winning, after all, can be said to be the calling card of our generation. Or at least the newer one. Or part of their calling card. I consider this all a little more than the crabs in the bucket trying to reach the top. After all, aren't the ones on the bottom worse off?

Yeah, so there you have it, a long drawn out game and all for nothing. Perhaps it's just a metaphor for life sometimes. Perhaps not. 




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