PlayStations and Xboxes dominate the idle minutes in the lives of college basketball players. Not so at UCLA. The Bruins are a chess team, obsessed with competing on the boards in more ways than one. ✍️ _Brian_Hamilton
Campbell might have been on the vanguard, but even he wasn’t sure how much credit he could take as he walked down a T-Mobile Arena hallway. “I guess I’d say I had a hand in the start of that,” he said. He took a trip home before his freshman year and his friend’s brother was playing a lot of chess. Campbell got into it. He brought a physical board and chess set back to Los Angeles and brought the game to the group.
And, as no two chess games are alike, everyone comes to it for their own reasons. “It’s all you,” Jaquez said. “I play a sport where other guys can make mistakes, whereas you play chess and every move you make is your own. You are the only one that can make a mistake. And the other part I like about it — the answer is always right in front of you. You just have to find it. You put this here, you put that right there, there’s a right and wrong answer here, of what to do.
You assume that opponent will do one thing, Jaquez said, and then they do another thing. And then you have to figure everything out all over again.
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