Day 19 Walk & Talk: Access Granted

The Mike Ambassador Bruny Show

Good morning, Mike, Ambassador Bruny here on my walk and talk. This is day 19 of 30 The last couple of days I watched the Queen's Gambit on Netflix, which is partly about chess ♟ and all kinds of craziness. But the chess piece really intrigued me. And part of me is like, “I don't know why.” But there's another part that says, “you know why man.” That part is because it feels like one of those things I've never really learned. I know how the pieces moves, but I don't know how to think chess. And not too long ago, something dawned on me, it felt as if it wasn't accessible. But that's not fully true, right? It's not necessarily true. You have different ways of engaging in chess, and let chess be a metaphor for whatever it is that you're thinking about doing. But it feels like “Yo, I don't know how to get in man.” At least in when it comes to chess, one of the things is, they have games that you can, that you can replay other people's games, you can watch other people's games. But there's a piece a small piece, maybe a big piece that might be missing. And if you don't catch it, you can be lost. And that is understanding, I think it's called algebraic notation, I feel like I should say with an accent. And for those of you who know spreadsheets, it is nothing more than saying a cell name in Excel or Google Sheets, it's like E5. That's an actual position on the board. Because the board, the chess board itself, if you look at the bottom, from the position of the white pieces— that's a whole other episode: Why it feels like so much just focused on the white pieces—it's A through H and then one through eight. So any position, you can get the coordinates. And that's how it tells you, that's the beginning of understanding where the pieces are as you move them. And a little bit of googling will make you an insider, where you can literally go and watch someone's game, you can replay someone's game just based on the coordinates of the different pieces and the moves that they made. So you can actually see it for yourself and move the pieces and you don’t need nobody to do that. Whatever you are thinking about jumping in, but maybe not. Spend some time on Google and find the points that will make it easier for you to explore on your own. So that's my message for today, it’s about access, accessibility and understanding that there's these little things, you learn them, little things you learn, changes everything. Alright, I'm out of time for me to go before my little guy gets ready to hit the road. But this is Mike Ambassador Bruny signing out. Peace.