The Queen's Blunder
My girlfriend was a chess prodigy while I had trouble playing checkers, but she always let me win.
When others questioned if I deserved her, she would tell them with unshakeable conviction, "I'd rather lose everything than lose him."
Later on, she joined the national team while I stayed in a local college.
Despite being apart for four years, we were always on video calls, and I'd travel over to visit whenever I had a break, even if it meant watching her from a distance through the training camp fences.
We never thought we'd drift apart until one competition, where she blundered across seven rounds because she was playing a certain handsome youth.
I knew right then that it was over betwe