The Chessplayer
by johnsm00007
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For the first time in history, a girl has qualified for the final in the FIDE world chess championship. A Icelandic girl. The venue is New York, November 2016. Against this Norwegian dude, Magnus Carlsen.
The candidate tournament for the championship was a big surprise. Out of nothing this young Icelandic girl had quailified. Her name was Björk, 21 years old and a student of sport science at the university in Reykavik. You should think that her main sport was chess, but of course - as every icelandic woman, her sport was crossfit.
It had started with a chessgame during lunch the first year in university, some guys were playing chess and Björk was watching. After watching for half an hour she would tell her friend where to move his pieces, and within five moves he had won. The next day she was challanged to a game, which she won after about 20 moves.
Björk never read any therory about chess, that was boring and would take too much time. When she got up in the morning she ran for an hour, then it was studying, then crossfit, then sleeping - repeat. It was a good life. Every once in a while she would play chess - and win.
One day the Icelandic national championship in chess was held in the university cafe. Björk was asked to join - and won. This qualified her to play everywhere in Europe, but the good thing, the travels would be paid for. So Björk thaught this was a good opertunity to do crossfit all over the world. For a year she went everywhere, doing crossfit and playing chess. For some reason she never connected with the chess players, for them she was just this plane girl showing up, playing unconvetional and difficult chess, on international level she did ok. Representing Iceland she was allways dressed in formal clothes, a nice blue jacket, white shirt and red tie, the colors of the flag.
Suddenly in one turnament she did very well and against all odds she qualified for the candidate tournament which she also won. Now she had half a year to train for the big thing - the final. One month of chess in New York. Time to train.
And train she did. After one week of vacation in Hawaii she was ready to train - one week on the beach tanning drinking coctails.
The first thing she did was calling the best person to train her - a Icelandic girl called Katrin. Björk flew in to meet her, the deal was half a year of training. Katrin met Björk on the airport and together they drove straight to the training facilities.
Björk got ready, she put on her thights and jacket and went to meet Katrin. Katrin was standing there in her shorts and sports bra. Half a year with Katrin would really do wonders before the chess games.
Even though Björk had done crossfit for some years, this was something else. The first month she was struggeling with everything. After two months she could to five chin ups. After four months she was following Katrin at almost everything, but with fewer reps.
One month before the match she got a package from the Icelandic chess federation, it was her new uniform. Katrin was courious to see and they opened the box. Katrin started to laugh hard, so hard that her abs cut into six straight bricks. Björk didn't understand, but put on the skirt. Then she took off her wortout shirt and put on her new chess jacket. It didn't fit. With a little power the jacket came over the shoulders. The buttons were far from meeting in the middle. This was the first time Björk realized how big she had become. She looks down at her body and over to Katrin. Katrin's abs are six brcks, then she looks at her own, she also had six bricks, not as cut as her friend's, bur still. She took her package to the locker room to put the stuff back in. Standing in front of the mirror she put her hair in a ponytail seeing her biceps play nicely. The transformation had really gone unnoticed. Katrin sees her friend discovering her muscles. She walks over and flexes her biceps showing Björk how to flex in the best way. Wow. Now she was ready for chess, she didn't play chess for half a year.
The day the championship starts.
Katrin wake up in her hotel room. The last month was also spent in the box. Now she was as big as Katrin. Suddenly there's a knock on the hotel door. It's her sister who she hasn't seen in the last half year. Her jaw drops when she sees her sister's body. Björk is walking around in her underwear, looking for something nice to wear. Her sister looked at Björk, and then ran to the closest shop to get a shirt. Björk puts in on and leaves for the first game.
For the first time she met Carlsen, they shook hands. The first game was an easy match for Carlsen who won after just half an hour. In the press conference afterwards he stated that it was an easy win and that Björk problably never had seen a chess board before. It would probably be better for her to play tic-tac-toe instead.
Hearing that Björk stood up and said that the challange was on. She then reached for a pen and pulled up her shirt to use her stomack as board. Do you want to start? The photographers went mad. The picture of the chess player with the abs was on every newpaper's front page the next day. She won the tic-tac-toe.
After a month of chess the world had a new hero. Ok, Carlsen won the championship easily, but Björk bacame the symbol on the strong, intellegent new kind of Icelandic girls.
By the way, half a year later Björk would beat Katrin at the crossfit games.
