Chess

So I recently got really into chess. I started getting into it more when my dads family came over for thanksgiving. Now since then I have been watching a lot YouTube videos on how to checkmate opponents quicker and a lot of traps. I try to use some of these tactics from YouTube vs the computer but then they just do a different move that was not in the YouTube  tutorial. So I keep hitting the undo button until they do what I want them to do:)
I really like chess and I want to be able to beat the computer on 7 in 13 weeks.
I hope I can do it it's going to be hard and fun though.
I really like putting like the computers horse in danger and then having him run away and I say "That's what I thought!" :)
I also like putting the computer in a trap with my queen, I put his king in check he moves away and then I kill his Rook.
I am going to get a Chess set for Christmas It is going to be awesome. I am going to play a lot of chess over the rest of the winter.
I also like doing the four move and two move checkmate.
The two move checkmate usually doesn't work unless your opponent is very weak.
Basically you have to be the white pieces so they move first. They move their pawn to G4 then you move your pawn to D6. Then they would have to move the other pawn to F3. In which you would move your queen to H4 and you have your 2 move checkmate.
For the 4 move checkmate it's easier to do if you are white. So you would move your pawn to E4, in which they would usually play E5, so then you would move your bishop to 4C .Then they would take there horse out onto C6, then you would play your queen to F3 to attack the weak F7 square, then if they were not careful and they just moved a pawn to D6 then you would just move your queen to F7 and it is checkmate. I really enjoy chess and hope to get really good at it.

LionBoy

So I recently read this book called LionBoy.
At first it wasn't that good and it took a few chapters to actually get into it, but when I did it was hard to put down!
So it's about this kid named Charlie who has an ability to speak cat! He has a mom and dad that are very smart and have a room full of cures for everything.
One day his parents are kidnapped and a kid from his town named Rafi says he was goign to take care of him now.
Then he goes on an epic chase on trying to rescue his parents.
The cats help him on the way to Paris and bring him and send letters for him to give to his parents.
He goes onto a ship that has a circus.
He meets some lions on the ship and he becomes the lion trainers assistant.
Then he talks to the lions and has them help him to get away from this circus ship and to go find his parents that were by chance heading for Venice, (he was going to Venice too before he went to Paris.)
Then he gets away from where the circus was going on and he ran away with the Lions.
But Rafi happened to be there as well and he ran after them, one of the lionesses bit him and threw him into the water.
Then they got onto a train and he put the lions on top of it.
Then he finds that the kind of Bulgaria is on the train.
He turns out to be a very kind person.
He found out that there were lions on his train but he was nice and asked Charlie what he was going to do with them.
Charlie told him his whole story(leaving out the part about him being able to speak cat.)
The king got his adviser Edward into the room and Edward told him that his parents knew how to cure asthma and the people who kidnapped his parents didn't want everyone to know how to cure it because then they wouldn't make any money anymore, so they captured his parents.
I really liked this book and look forward to reading the other two books in this Trilogy :)