During my second year at the city college,I was told that the education department was offering a "free" course, called Thinking Chess, for three credits. I1 the idea of taking the class because, after all, who doesn't want to2 a few dollars? More than that, I'd always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I weren' t excited enough about free credits, news about our3 was appealing enough to me. He was an international grandmaster, which4 I would be learning from one of the game's best I could hardly wait to5 him.
Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this job was no game for him ; he meant business. In his introduction, he made it6 that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to7 the class among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to8 what we would learn in class to our future professions and9 to our lives. I managed to get an A in that course and leaned life lessons that have served me well beyond the10 .
Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I' m still putting to use what he11 me："the absolute most important12 that you learn when you play chess is how to make good13 . On every single move you have to14 a situation, process what your opponent (对手) is doing and15 the best move from among all your options." These words still ring true today in my role as a journalist.
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