"Eduard Yarosval wins the world chess tournament again!"

I can see all of their jealousy, looking at me like I am some brat who got lucky. I put a smile on my face, a big smug smile. I can see the golden cup coming to me, it is carried by a referee. I pick up my cup and raise it to the air, the cameras go wild and I feel a tap on my shoulder, I turn around to see a middle-aged man with short black hair, square glasses, and brown eyes. He is also holding a cup, like me but a silver one and a smaller one, this man name is Boris Markovich.

"Eduard! You put up a fight in the finals. I will die before you so let's replace our cups?"

"Sure thing."

I give my gold cup to Boris and he gives me his silver cup, we both raise it and the cameras go wild again. They are probably going to use this as a national propaganda, I can see the headlines. "Eduard Yarosval and Boris Markovich exchange cups!" Well who cares about the headlines, I only care about the red guards standing right next to the door. There are around hundred of them, their mission is to protect us and also to prevent us from interacting with foreign journalists such as Americans. After all, this is the cold war.

After the cameras, the flock of journalists rushes at us. The red guards immediately put up a wall around us but we are allowed to answer basic questions and then we start to answer the questions, the questions are normal. "Was it hard?" "Was it easy?" Same kinds but then I hear an American journalist ask a weird question to Boris.

"Mister Markovich, what was the hardest tactic that Mister Yarosval used?"

"If I had to say, Uria defense, Vivord Wall, and Hant Push."

"Thank you for the answer."

And then one of the red guards speak.

"Okay! It is over! We are going!"

The red guards lead us to the door, we start to walk to our cars and then I notice Boris's right hand. He is playing with a black king. Boris always had a bad habit of showing his stress and fear through playing with something and then it gets me, Uria, Vivord, Hant. These tactics aren't real. I see, my friend Boris is leaking information to the Americans. Well, it is not my business so who cares, we get on our cars and leave.

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It is already night and there is a beautiful woman lying next to me, we are both naked and we are both under the blankets, she smiles at me and I smile at her back, this is normal for me. After every victory, the reds give me a reward and that reward is a woman even though the country is going to shit, the Russian women are beautiful and like I always ask the same question, If they answer this question right I will marry them if they don't this will be a one-night stand.

"What do you like about me?"

"I like your curly brown hair, I like your blue empty and dead eyes, I like your cold attitude, and I like the way you have sex."

This woman's answer surprises me, this one must be a cobra.

"Empty and dead eyes?"

"Yes, you always look like you are bored. Except when you play chess your eyes turn into a nuclear alert."

"Well that was a good answer, shall we continue?"

As soon as I say that, the door flies open. The Red Guards rush in and the one that looks like a commissar speaks.

"Moscow needs you."

"Well, Let me get dressed."

"Yes, and you whore get out!"

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The commissar yells at her, her playful face turn into a frightened face. I guess this is normal for everyone, she picks her clothing and leaves the room in a rush. I wear my casual brown suit and my brown pants.

"Ready?"

"Yes."

I get inside the car and then two soldiers sit beside me, one them starts to blindfold me and then the commissar speaks.

"We can't-"

"I know, I know you can't show me anything."

The commissar laughs and starts to drive the car into a place I don't know but I can feel this place is somewhere in the woods around Moscow. We must be going to a nuclear silo and after an hour we reach a bunker, there are guards around the bunker. My guess was right, we go into the bunker until we reach a big iron submarine-like door, the commissar opens the door and I see a body being dragged out, this person is someone I know, the commissar turns to me with a smile on his face.

"Mister Boris wasn't able to finish the mission and so we executed him."

"Mission?"

"Look over there. See that computer thingy? We want you to beat it."

I see a bulky computer and a table with a chessboard and a chess clock on it, I don't like these things called computers but I have a feeling that I don't have a choice.

"Why do I have to beat it?"

"Well, see the weird tubes behind it?"

"Yes?"

"Those are nuclear bombs and that computer thingy locked our nuclear arsenal. It will give it back if somebody beats it."

"Okay, I don't care about that much. I just have to beat it right?"

I sit on the chair and the commissar sets up the clock to two minutes.

"Each of you has two minutes."

"I have a question before we start."

"Yes?"

"How will the computer play?"

"The big screen will say the movements and I will play it."

"Okay, let's start then."

"But there is one thing I forgot. If you lose this will be counted as treason and you know the penalty for treason."

"Like I said I don't care. Just let the game start and I assume the computer is white."

"Yes, and we shall start."

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I can't find any words to describe how I am feeling right now, I used one minute and the computer used twenty seconds, this feeling of joy will blacken my vision, this strong opponent I haven't played against something like this and thirty seconds passes on my clock and ten seconds passes on the computer's clock and then it hits me. I can actually lose my life here and my feeling of joy turns into fear, I am still human after all. I look around to escape but I can't escape from the chessboard and this room, two guards holding the door and one commissar here and I don't have any guns….Or do I?

My eyes turn to the water glass, It is the best weapon I can get, I smile and yell.

"I will show you the old Russian style!"

I pick up the water glass and splash the computer, the commissar smiles at me.

"Nice move."

The computer slows down and so our clocks are now equal at ten seconds, I am almost dead but then I realize I have a good chance of winning, I make my moves and so does the computer, the clock starts to go down. Three, two, one. I smash the clock with all of my might and then the computer's screen changes into.

"I win."

I can't believe I lost this battle, only one move away from a win. I just have to move the black knight to E-4 but I can't do it, the commissar pulls out his pistol and aims my head.

"Sorry comrade."

I will finish this game! I won't be dying here! I snatch the pistol from the commissar's hand and shoot him right in the head, I turn to the two guards and shoot them both in the head but three of their bullets hit me, I have to close the door. I rush to the door and close the door, the soldiers bang on the door, they can't blow the door because of the nuclear arsenal so I gained myself sometimes but I only need one second, I pick up the broken chess clock from the ground and put it back on the table, it is the computer's turn and it is going down, three, two and one.

The computers tell its move, I move the white king and click the clock for the computer. I am still a chess player with honor, I pick up my black knight, I realize my consciousness is going away and then I collapse on the chessboard, I can hear the chess clock alarm, I lose but before I die I will kill this computer with me, I aim the commissar's pistol at the computer and I almost pull the trigger but then I pass out.

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The pain is gone, I feel like I can open my eyes again, the god of chess has revived me to finish my last great battle, I open my eyes and I see the sky. I look around for the chessboard but I can't find it, the only things I can see is a street full of humans, weird looking humans with long ears and lizards. By the looks of it they are celebrating something but where am I? What is this medieval looking place and where is my chessboard! And then I see it, a king is on a parade, a white king and it is coming towards me. I look to my left and see a black horse that is drinking water and I look at my right hand and see a weapon, I know what to do.

I get on top of the black horse and start to ride it to the parade, there are knights guarding the white king but I don't care about them I just have to kill the white king! I make my horse jump across from the peasant crowd and now everyone has noticed me, I rush to the white king, I aim my gun and shoot, a couple of times, the white king falls from his white horse and the knights capture me. I smile and yell.

"The god of chess loves me!"