The thing that I’ve owned throughout my spirit and criss-crossed the land with, is a small electronic chess set. It runs on 2 AA batteries and has eight distinct accomplishment stages. Of course after many years the white pieces are a bit rusty and I’ve misplaced a bishop along the way, however for the most part and an exchange of electric batteries occasionally it has lasted with me since I was fifteen years old.

My chess set has stayed in New York, Alaska, Ohio and Pennsylvania. It weathered wedlock and held up with kids. It holds back patiently in a cabinet for me to find time for a game. Of course I’ve never done it justice, only ever making to skill level five and most of the time being sufficient at level three or 4, simply it has been a lasting friend. It’s hard to think a chess set could be constructed in 1963 and keep going until today, but it was and it’s still omnipresent waiting to play!

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