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‘No quiero lástima, sino oportunidades’: la vida azarosa de una celebre champion de ajedrez para ciegos
AT IGUAL QUE BETH HARMON, THE GAMBITO GAMBITO FICTIONIST, WILL TAKE A WAY TO RUN IN RUSSIA TO COMPETE. PERO, A BETH DIFFERENCE, IS CIEGA.¿Ja het oida esta historia? A child has a difficult life in life, lies to discover the future. Won in United States Champion. Russian study. And now you need to find a way to get to Russia to play games, because it’s not costly. No, not Beth Harmon’s, Gambito’s fiction heroine, Netflix’s megahit. Presented by Jessica Lauser, the three-time champion of the United States. Puedes llamarla Chessica, el apodo que le puso su profesor de matematicas en octavo grado.Lauser, ahora de 40 años, nacio 15 semanas antes de tiempo. How many babies are born naked, need oxygen, who give birth to eggs, a condition called retinopathy of prematurity. An ojo is completely complete; in the other has a vision of 20/480. His visual camp is limited and, in his vision, the pieces of ajedrez lucen bore and distorted. You can save when one of the tables on this table is occupied, but you can always decide which piece it is. When you play against a player in a turn, it will explain everything. The mayor’s problem is the rule of thumb and movement in the ajedrez, which says that if there is a piece, tenes that move. “If you need to identify a piece during a party, call the superior part and say ‘identify’, do not add the piece only token”, double stone. Apart from that, Doppel Michael Aigner, who recently became his teammate in the first Olympics online for people with disabilities, “could not say that Jessica is a god”. Ajedrez jiegrez ciegos a menudo usan un juego de clavijas, un speblo tablero des les permite sentir las piezas sin derribarlas. Ella no look. But it has to be recorded if the pieces are (in contrast to Beth Harmon, has no photographic memory), as they identify by the pace and times it is used. It has been the Lauser refuge for a long time. Applying the game to the seven years, when transferred from the State School of Arizona to Sords and Cogs to a conventional school. It was said, “It was just a game like Monopoly or Parchment”. For the seventh grade, when empezo at a new school in California, habia empezado to take the game more seriously. “When entering the class the first day, the first that we have in the part of the walls of the living room made of armor at the height of the belt with armored game players”, dobbeltsteen Lauser. “Sabia que los niños me iban a llamar ‘cuatro ojos’, y dije: ‘Aja, esta una manera de dejarlos callados'”. Lauser, who now lives in Kansas City and works for the Internal Tax Service, has lived in an unoccupied number of places, and has been accused of having a stable job. Has been hogar during the last year. It’s a very delicate theme for her. “It’s frustrating not to have an opportunity just for the sake of it”, dice. To maintain your eligibility for Social Security Disability Insurance, I can not raise more than 2110 dollars per month. “The limit is difficult and fast”, dice. “I was in need of the power to do what I always did. Because I’re playing the game, I’m going to help sober all those things that I can not change.” More late, aggregate: “No last name, no opportunities. Only one will be equal” .He perfected his game of games in the calls: Market Street in San Francisco, Santana Row in San Jose, Dupont Circle in Washington. His favorite place was the student union of the State University of San Francisco, where he earned his university degree 36 years ago. “Organizes three games and a comfortable room and enfrantaba to all those who come”, dice. There will be a multitude, no matter how hard it is because it will be female, and will play three games in a row. The tithing ceremonies are noteworthy that their sales increase when they stay until the child is detained. “The coordinator of the edition tells me: ‘Hope you are not offended, but we would like to adopt!'”. As he played a lot in the calls, he played very fast, and he used apertures that were considered small solid for the ajedrez de torneos. In the blink of an eye, a few minutes later, his maximum score is one category at a time for the masters. Pursue a master’s title following his objective, although the preoccupation is probable: there are not many players he has signed up to in 40 years. “There is no way to renounce this sueño”, dice.In October, Lauser won his third consecutive championship of EE.UU., a tournament that was celebrated in person, in the wake of the pandemic. Habia sido pospuesto desde julio. Antes de pandemia, dice Virginia Alverson, president of the Association of Ajedrez de Eieg.UU. with three: Alverson, his quarterback, Pauline Downing, and Lauser. “We feel that if Jessica establishes the ability to travel from Kansas City to New Hampshire to defend their title, we will have to do some kind of tournament,” Alverson doubled. “Jessica says a lot that she wants to come. Jessica is still playing to help. And the world is that she wants to leave”. The Olympics for People with Disabilities of this year, celebrated the end of the week of Accion de Gracias, was an event of much higher profile. Originally programmed to be organized in Siberia, in August, it was transferred to the Internet and attracted 60 teams of 44 countries. The stadium team, led by Aigner in the first table, empath in the decimal place. Lauser empezo despacio per won a key party in the final round against a Brazilian player. And it is likely that the most important player, because each team will present a player. Without it, it does not conform to an EE.UU team. “In the middle of the turn, when she loses her first three rounds, we play a fast-paced hour, only by distraction”, Dice Aigner. “She plays all her games against me, and some of the parties have me in trouble. When I finally won the round, I had a strong reaction: Thank God we can all have the good that is yours. She was playing with style. that jugo against me in the flash, and by supuesto gano “.For now, the proximity of the Olympics is programmed for Russia in 2022. A Lauser the desire to assist, but he is not sure how to do it. This year, before the event in Siberia will be canceled, FIDE, the International Federation of Ajedrez, will pay more than 1500 euros for the journey, or around 1800 dollars. “If there is a change in the people of Russia and regression is debatable”, doubles Chris Bird, managing event of the FIDE of the Federation of Ajedrez of the United States. Until the pandemic ends, the federation has no financial support for the teams for international events. For Lauser, it’s a familiar story. He also qualified for the World Cup six times a week, but has never been able to assist. In short, Lauser hopes to preserve his work in Kansas City, as well as his actual apartment, since he can drive the train on his truck and from Union Station. In large terms, it says: “My ideal situation would be to have enough money to live, not to die, and quizzes to have a house at any moment. You can practice the game all the days, you can compete, you can help the demas. Talk to you live af Rusia, enseñar ingles y jugar ajedrez “.Jessica Lauser, tres veces estadounidense de ajedrez para ciegos, en su apartamento de Kansas City, Misuri. (Barrett Emke / The New York Times) Lauser perfected his game in the calls, using three tables a week. She was playing fast. (Barrett Emke / The New York Times) This article originally appeared in The New York Times. (C) 2021 The New York Times Company