It was the hardest lesson of all. It required patience. It required technique over talent. It required doing the boring thing perfectly, every single time, until the opponent had nowhere left to breathe.
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The next night, at the club, a bully named Sergei pushed Leo’s pieces around. Sergei loved to bring his Queen out early, attacking h7. It was the hardest lesson of all