Once upon a time , there was a renowned king of a kingdom. He was full of brilliance and courage. He would take care of his subjects like his children.The king was very hardworking and had ability to administer efficiently.
King had a queen who was a beautiful but gracious lady.
The king had only one hobbie is to play chess and bet on it. Once he was playing chess with the neighborhood's aristocrat who was cunning and craft.
The aristocrat bet the king to play for his thorn and king fell for his trick without much thought.The game was started and this time king started to lose the game.
He lost his pawn rank and in no time came into defensive position.King had never imagined this situation and before he could make out the intrigue moves of aristocrat he had lost his bishop and knight in exchange to corner pawns of aristocrat.
King asked for a break which aristocrat allowed with a winning smile.King immediately reached to his wife and explained her the mistake of betting his whole kingdom for winning a chess match.
His wife was a wise and patience lady , She asked him to promise her of not repeating the same mistake again . Once she had the words of king she demanded for piece position on the board from king.
After going through the position on the chess board she told king to not only sacrifice few more pieces but to sacrifice the most important piece of chess the queen itself .
King was already disturbed and listening to this plan tensed him more but then his wife kept on explaining the further strategy.
When king left the room he had a smile on his face.
The aristocrat was waiting eagerly for king to come back and resume the game . This time king played with the strategy to leave the small benefits , Whereas aristocrat having a narrow vision took all the advantages he could have taken.
Finally when aristocrat had removed the several piece of king from board king suddenly gave him double check causing few force moves and then an obvious mate.
King had something to learn here , He kept his words given to queen for whole life and never bet on the game again.
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