Do we play checkers with friends or with foes? I think that we play checkers with foes, and that occasionally as in checkers,
We choose foes according to their skill.
Actually that is why we play checkers,online
where we don't choose foes, but foes seem to choose us, Like two roosters in a
hen house. Once we have been chosen as a foe, that foe will usually hang on until beaten. In checkers those who choose us are our foes and we have to beat them or whimper away and try again another day. We play checkers
with foes.
Now that the stage is set,and that we agree that playing checkers is an, at times, unspoken tacit agreement between foes that the winner is indeed the winner in whatever areas your foe feels threatened by you and therefore has targeted you as a foe. We play checkers with foes to decide who is the better player and who wins, wins in other areas involving
your foe and you. Now where do we play checkers?
If we play checkers at home, chances are your foe is your own sibling, that means brother or sister, by the way, and
we all understand sibling rivalry. The winner of a checkers game at home probably struts like a peacock until the next
game. His winning probably has subconsciously upped his family rated scale a notch as most impressive family member.
His loss will probably invoke sympathy and discreet attempts to pacify his wounded ego.
If, however, we play online as in pogo. com then we have an audience of who knows how many. Our winning or our losing
becomes a point of contention and some checkers players who manage to control their aggressive tendencies through the medium
of checkers, do capitalize on beating an opponent of impressive checkers skills. How would they know who has impressive
checkers skills? Other players on pogo.com talk and compare notes. It is not like in some other game rooms where the rating
denotes superiority because most of us on pogo. com know about paying family members to play checkers with us to make our
ratings look good. But we do know a master checkers player when we play him and he becomes a focal point amongst those of us
with enough appreciation of our checkers skills to be eager to play and beat them.
Playing on Pogo
introduces you to players of your own level and you will quickly learn how some so called winners win by
bravado or by skill. Whether playing checkers
online or at home, make no bones about it, your
win or loss will affect you in other areas of your existence. What should we learn by this? Don't challenge a checker player unless you know
that you can beat him.
