1 Prolouge

"Every chess master was once a beginner."

– Irving Chernev

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"Take that"

A person was smirking while playing an online internet chess in his room.

"That's a good reply but not good enough. Now here comes the finisher, off to the trash bin you go"

He was enjoying this game. He like trashing his opponents very much and make them squirm in defeat. It was like a drug to make his enemies hope shatter into pieces.

He watched the screen in vicious light, sneering at the fools who think they are smart but in reality, they were just dancing in the palm of his hands waiting to be crushed.

But he didn't always act like this.

He was a silent boy in school and stays average in the eyes of his classmates and teachers but on the inside, he was a smart, mildly sadistic boy with an almost photographic memory.

He liked staying as average as possible to interact with his everyday life. Most of the time he interacts with the people and help them as best as he could with a smile on his face, but not on the internet. On the internet he was like a fish in a water that was finally free from his small fish tank and now swimming across the vast ocean. And most of the time on the internet he always play strategic games as he like controlling everything.

He was a player with a very good gaming sense, but sometimes falls short as he met with your usual internet trolls who likes ruining games. Internet chess was his only outlet to vent when he lost a game that it was like a second nature to him.

He smiles and continued bullying his opponent.

'Ahhhhh! damn it! Not the fork man!'

His opponent would probably say out loud this to him as he forked the three big shots, a rook, queen, and king.

Aka the "Royal" fork.

"If I didn't encounter those trolls, I would have been lenient to you"

He told himself that he was correct in his ways of venting.

When he plays some games for example a MOBA game, he always takes the role of a support and a mastermind that will direct the flow of battle. Always giving his team some heads up and continuously updating the situation and the state of the game to his teammates but sadly as you know there's always a dick who goes south and feeding his enemy until they get farmed that they could crush them with basic attacks. If there was an ideal environment where everyone cooperates then we would already achieve World Peace in a sense. Such environment only exists in dreams when you play a pub game.

[The opponent resigned the game]

Another game finished with him winning.

'I won again. Boring opponent. He quit after I forked the sh*t out of him'

He sighs and turns off his computer. He was playing for almost two hours that he forgot to eat his dinner.

'Mom and Dad not home again'

He sighs and goes to the kitchen to look for food but he only found some frozen good that needed to be thawed. He looks around the fridge and found some cup noodles which he took and prepares it for his already late dinner.

He was most of the time alone in the house where his parents are always busy with their work. He hated this fact as if he didn't exists in their minds. This made him seek entertainment and a sense of belonging in the internet. On the internet there's almost always ways you can enjoy yourself, you can watch videos, play games, and learn.

He waited for his cup noodles to cook while thinking what to do next.

As he waited the noodles finally got cooked and he immediately ate.

*Slurp* *Slurp*

'Phew, good stuff'

He was appreciating the fact that someone invented this cheap, easy to cook, unhealthy food. The savory taste of chicken stock and the firmness of the noodles coupled with an egg made it heavenly for his famished stomach.

He drank some water to wash the after taste of the noodles and walk back to his room.

He goes to bed after having a "satisfying meal" and read some novels on his phone.

'Any updates today? Hmmm, I see one, let's read it'

He smiles as some of his novels finally got some updates. This was his routine to check if his bookmarked novels got updated so he immediately read it.

He liked reading those hero characters who got transported to another world laying waste onto their enemies and saving the world.

'The shie** hero finally got the thot served. Yeah! Dumb bitch. Truly the word 'If she breathes, she's a thot!' applies to her. Raphta*** best waifu! She protecc, she attacc but most importantly she gives head pats'

*Aherm* Delete that last statement *Aherm*

He imagined the scenario happening while reading. Imagining is one of his forte as he can vividly animate the scenario happening in the story.

If he says what he's thinking right now on the internet he will get bashed by your everyday internet keyboard warriors.

Typical Cliché Hero Story Faggot – an internet keyboard warrior

'An internet troll would be talking to me 'What a sh*t taste you have' if I say those. Don't question my preferences as I had mine and you got yours so f*ck off'

He silenced those imaginary internet keyboard warriors in his mind and continued reading. He was getting invested in his imagination.

'Shie** hero should at least get something like a reflect shield upgrade to beat the sh*t out of them. Makes life easier and burdening Raphta*** less so they can interact more'

He regrets for a fact that shie** hero is not making full use of the potential of his shield to the max.

Overpowered characters are what he liked the most. There are some certain "cultivation" novels that he hated as he read the premise that the MC is overpowered from the start but he was proven wrong, true that he got overpowered cultivation techniques but that's it. He got tired reading those typical cultivation stories about gaining power in lucky and absurd ways, raped a girl because she got aphrodisiac on her body and the only way to stop it is to "Dual Cultivate" scenario, non-stop 'You dare hit this young master?' and bringing whole clan on MC's ass then later on like a hundred chapters when things finally calm down then another ones comes in, rinse and repeat until he achieves God Hood on like a damn two thousand chapters. It infuriates him to no end along with the MC's silly decisions.

'Like you got some overpowered cultivation techniques why create unnecessary troubles where you can just do it in secret and bide your time and later slap them'

He is frustrated that his time got wasted reading those same novels recycled many times.

'Damn, recalling all those times is really a pain in the head with all those illogical decisions made by them. Arrogant, rapist, and a selfish prick to the extreme characters is just a major turnoff'

He sighs and lamented that he reading those kinds of stories. These stories forever got burned in his memory as he recalled and imagined it.

He got bored and look another story.

'Yeah, this one is I like. A Kingdom building with political genre mixed with some magic or a system is good'

He liked reading this kind of stories as they have much more sense, it is short and can get straight to the detail and the interactions could somewhat be lacking but they can be compensated by imagination to anyone reading it.

He enjoyed reading this kind of stories as he can interact with the scenario in his head and formulate the best course of action if he was in their position.

'The story is good'

He praised. It was rare for him to praise a story.

It was ready a good story in his opinion as he like for a fact that it included some world building and the assumptions and logical decisions made by the main characters and the villains.

'Let me see, if I create my own story like that, I would like it have a system. A Stockfish-LCZero [1][2] Game Interface System I suppose. Add some kingdom building and political game with rules that the nobilities made that only applies to their territory but of course the everything will be settled with a game of chess. Penalties should be depending on the bet that are of equal value. Now should I add magic and different races?'

He thought of a story in his mind. It was good in his opinion.

He watched the time on his phone and he saw that it was already midnight.

"Damn it, now I only get 6 hours of sleep today ugh should have kept my emotions in check"

He turns off his phone and finally fell asleep.

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[1] Stockfish is an open sourced chess program that is consistently ranked first in the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC) every season

[2] LCZero (Leela Chess Zero) is an open source chess program that uses neural network and Monte Carlo Tree Search. It won the season 15 and the current season 17 of the TCEC against Stockfish.