Wizard Chess
The Game, the Challenge, the Champion
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A/N:This is a story about Ron and his mad wizard chess skills. :)
DISCLAIMER:Only in this chapter will I disclaim. You know the drill, all the stuff is J.K.
Rowling's except a few choice things that I'm too lazy to list. This takes place over the summer when Ron is
going into second year.
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CHAPTER 1:
The Game
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Ron Weasly sat in
his bed in the boy's dormitory at Hogwarts.
How familiar it seemed to Ron; Dean and his soccer poster, Harry reading
Flying with the Cannons for the (insert number here)th time, and Ron himself
thinking out wizard chess tactics to route Harry yet again.
After he shut his
book, Harry said, "Ron, want to play a game of chess?"
Ron replied
enthusiastically, "Sure! Let me get my chess set!" His chess set had been passed down through
the Weaslys, and used to belong to one of his brothers.
In wizard chess,
the rules and regulations are the same as Muggle chess. However, the pieces, (being magical), could
talk, coordinate, and suggest. Because
of this, Wizard chess relates very much to directing troops in battle. Sometimes a piece would move, sometimes it
would stay and make its own suggestion (useful or annoying). Ron's chess set, having played with a Weasly
at the helm for much time, trusted Ron and treated him with utmost respect,
sometimes even offering useful propositions (though Ron had already thought of
most).
Harry's chess
pieces, on the other hand, often stayed put in stubborness and suggested their
own moves, which were usually right into traps. These moves, however, also happened to be the only moves they
would take. Harry recieved his chess
set at Christmas in his first year.
They still didn't trust him.
Because of Harry's less experienced pieces and considerably lesser
skill, Ron usually defeated Harry outright with a series of clever traps, moves
and attacks.
"Ron, you're
really good! You should enter some tournament or something," said Harry.
"That would be
excellent!" Ron said, and that started the daydream...
Ron stood
on a podium, waving a huge, gold cup in the air. With an ethusiastic smile, he magically magnified his voice. The crowd hushed to hear their international
Wizard chess champion speak.
"Hello, and I thank you all for your warm welcome to the tournament
and support throught it!" he said.
Harry and Hermione, his best friends could be seen in the crowd, looking
quite envious. Ron liked this, for
Harry had always recieved all the attention and glory. "I could not have done this without all
of you!" said Ron. With a smirk,
he added, "And I would especially like to thank Harry Potter for giving me
some practice on winning!" The
crowd chuckled and sniggered at the tall, skinny boy's attempt at humor. His speech droned on, and on, until
suddenly, he was brought back to reality with a start.
Ron Weasly was
shaken and suddenly heard a voice, "Come on Ron, we have to play,
remember?" Suddenly, he did
remember. He had been playing with
Harry.
"Yeah, I
remember," said Ron. This time,
the game lasted all of ten minutes.
Toward the beginning, Harry made a bold move with his queen only to find
it taken by Ron's knight. 'He has
excellent skill, there's no denying that,' thought Harry. Ron suddenly played an overwhelming amount
of his pieces into a skirmish to break the first row of pawns. It succeded with only the loss of a
knight. Then, Harry's King moved to
castle, but put itself in a trap. There
could be no way out.
"Check
mate," said Ron, cleaning his pieces off the board. "Good game Harry!" said Ron in a
nice, friendly way. Harry had lost now
for the twentieth time, out of twenty.
Never had he come close to winning.
Ron had now made it
his goal to win a chess tournament of some sort. He would become famous winning it, give the prize money to his
family (which had a few problems with money) and turn out to recieve respect
from other chess players around the world. Yes, there are no minuses to winning
that...
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A/N:I hope you liked that, but if not, PLEASE tell me what you
don't like so I can try to fix it. Next chapter should be up soon.
