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when I was eight I lost a winning game
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at a chess tournament it was an 11 hours
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drive to get there and I blundered and
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lost a winning position I told my father
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it was because I was tired and couldn't
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sleep in the car I came third in the
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tournament but should have come first
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dad was Furious I remember feeling like
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crying as he lectured me who taught you
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to make excuses boy it wasn't me isn't
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your last name Tate what does the paper
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say lost cause he was tired or lost I
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didn't reply answer me son it says I
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lost ad excuse excuses don't affect the
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outcome so excuses can't affect your
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performance I was too young to
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understand and upset when we got home I
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complained to Mom that Dad was yelling
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at me for losing she said he was too
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hard on me they had a heated argument as
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he explained she's a female and doesn't
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understand the burden of performance if
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I was to tired to perform they would
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have killed me he was referencing a few
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months before where I watched him be
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attacked my mother told me I didn't have
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to play chess anymore if Dad was going
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to upset me dad took me out of the house
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for a week we stayed in a hotel away
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from my mother's influence he kept me up
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playing chess till the early hours 2/3
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a.m. 6:00 a.m. school every night of the
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week your dad's crazy mother would say
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in fact everyone said that at the time I
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didn't know who to believe but I was
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exhausted I cried a few times he made me
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play anyway and made me sleep very
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little before school I remember on day
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five or six of this sitting across the
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board he has set up a position white to
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win in seven moves after a few minutes I
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found the a winning combination a night
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sacrifice dad cheered damn son that's a
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master puzzle I was excited and happy
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you're more tired now than you were in
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that tournament Ana tired isn't an
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excuse son what's your last name Tate I
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replied tired or not you know how to win
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my dad sacrificed his marriage to raise
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me exceptionally my mother simply didn't
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get it men raise Sons because they
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CED to wives my father lost his wife for
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me I always used to remember this story
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when deep in the round of championship
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fights am I going to lose because I'm
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tired or just lose Tates know how to win
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I type life stories to educate and
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spread taism for the betterment of man
