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CHESS AND HURRICANS
By Francisco González Christen
I am playing chess by internet. The night already enter. Rings the telephon. Is Reme, the mother in law of my Son. She lives at Winsconsin and she ask if we are safes, because in the United States the newscasts throw all the time alarming notices about the step of the hurrican Karl of thirth category over the state of Veracruz and included Xalapa, my city.
-there are heart-breaking notices, impactactings, tremendous
-bah! is only yellowness by T.V. (sensationalism). Here is raining as ever. There are some wind and one rain of september, but nothing to be alarmed
-Thanks to God!. So, all of you are very good
-yeah, don´t worry
After this conversation, I remain playing chess. The rain follow with its work. I go to take a supper with my sons and the daughter of Reme. We were talking pleasingly. Included, we are mocking of the alarmist newscasts. There were the two hours of the dawn.
Suddenly a pair of very agressives thunders were listened. We were bewared that it was a truly hurrican. It seems like a furious God a cause of our sins.
Our soul becomes contracted, but not to sparkle again. So, we go to sleep. Nothing happens.
Next day, the notices: the worst hurrican that kicks Veracruz from 50 or 75 years ago. He take contact with solid ground among "La Mancha"and "Playa Norte" of Veracruz harbor . It comes straight to us the xalapenians. Something stop it. Inmediatly, the conjectures: the beach house of my sister-in-law is very near to "La Mancha" and the nucleo-electric central plant of "Laguna Verde".
My aunt Encarna (Encarnación) and my cousins lives in Veracruz harbor.
-"Is not true, it is yellownes by television". I still remain playing chess, with great indiference.
In the wall of my study, to the left of the site where is may lap-top there is a arthesanal Jesus-Christ purchased by me in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, from many years ago.
Suddenly, a player with 300 points of ratting under the mine, makes me a challenge. He makes a oppenings very weaks and so bad and temeraries that I make mock of him telling he "you have nerves of steel making those oppenings". Intuitively, I see that he is trying to put a inocent ambuscade. His nick-name is "TheProphetOfWisdom" and I turn to see the JesusChriste in the wall.
This player continues with his ambuscade but he falls in my trap. I win a bishop without compensation for him.
Only remains his Queen on b5, pinning a piece and menacing to capture on b7. Wth Queen to a5, supported by another piece, I force it to retreat or to make a disadventageous change when he is in material disadventage.
I have another strong movings but I decided for Qb6, thinking it was supported by the pawn in a7. But, this pawn there are not more in this place, because it took a piece and I chatch on my Queen is supported by the air. I want dead. How is possible to loose with a player so weak and so bad? In another game, the same day, playing against a brasilian player, I am up for a pawn. The game is closed. There are nothing to be affraid. So, I move my useless knight to put it to work and, surprise: my Queen is pinned against my King. But it is not all: against my chess machine, in a endign King + Queen vs King, I give my Queen! So, I loose my Queen 3 times in the same day!
I turn my face to the JesusChrist of the wall. The Prophet. The voice of my conciousness tells me:
-what are you doing for the victims of the hurrican? Did you make a donative? Do you already speak with you aunt Encarna?
-The aunt Encarna! O my God! She lives in Veracruz in a zone which many times becomes under inundation!
-about the donatives, uf!, Last week I went to Cadereyta to a chess tournament and, despite i enter to third force, I loose only in the first round with a child that only wins to me. So, I can't get money at the premiation. All the year I was playing chess in many cities without win a prize. My credit card is next to a dangerous limit. Nevertheless I have to pay my debts in the Bank and I decided to make us of the occasion to make a donative. But before I want to answer my chess games by internet.
