By Michael Boyle

Copyright slashfilm

“In third grade, there was a chess club at school and there was a bowl of jellybeans at the front of the classroom. You’d play after school, and if you won you got one jellybean. I loved eating those jellybeans! I was viciously competitive. My older brother got me into that — we would compete against each other. I didn’t see a difference in age, just an opportunity to win. I was living in LA and my brother was in San Diego. He’s an engineer and he was at a plant nearby. He came by, we wanted to play a game so we set up a board. He hadn’t beaten me in years – and he absolutely crushed me! He’d been studying all the books! He knew he was gonna open one up on me. Once again, I chased him down — I had a target.”