Did You Crush Your Opponent's Mind?

When i was eight, i played my first game in a tournament. And it was our primary school in south london versus another primere school which also had a chess playingd teacher. I got my pawn to the end of the board, turned it into a queen and checkmate my opponent d after that, i was, i was hooked. You got the bug at that point. Was it a home then, not just where your dad wanted you to play good chess, but was it home where you taught politics a lot? So again, prima school about the same age, and it was 19 87,. It was ta general election, and my friends were talking about who their m