Today was a different day for Jaden. Jaden was playing for a regional chess tournament in New York. Jaden has been trying to win a big tournament during weekends. The weekends are always the hardest time for him because the best of the best competitors were there. Jaden has been playing in these tournaments ever since he was invited to a discord server. Each season a national tournament would be hosted, while he does go to the national’s due to winning the weekday tournaments he wishes to test his skills and win the weekend tournament. If you win first place during the weekend tournament then you receive the invite immediately without needing to play during the weekday tournaments. Jaden set himself a goal, earn the best placement you get in the tournament and during the next weekend tournament earn a better placement. If he won the second round and he was eliminated during the third round then he would attempt to get past the third round next week. Jaden has been trying to reach nationals by weekend tournaments for four seasons. As a new month enters, so does a new season. It was November, year 2020. He was getting serious about winning a weekend tournament. He would ask people from the discord to play practice games against him and he would even record his games to look for mistakes. From time to time Jaden would even make notes about what not to do during certain situations. It was week one November, while he was topping during the weekday tournaments it was the weekend tournaments he was worried about. Week one was not the best week, Jaden was eliminated in round two. During Sunday’s tournament he advanced to round three but he was eliminated during that round. After those losses he would relax and repeat the process during the next week. Week two arrived and he managed to reach top sixteen during the weekend. Week Two gave him hope, it was a sign telling him that he does have what it takes to reach first place. The third week was here and as he played his games on Saturday he managed to reach top eight and on Sunday Jaden managed to reach the semi-finals. Just when Jaden had hope, his next opponent was a player that went by the name of Glasses. One of the best players in the discord server and Glasses was known for reaching the semi-finals during the weekends. Jaden was taking his time against Glasses. As Jaden had little resources to use against Glasses Jaden’s fighting spirit would not waver. The moves that Jaden was making was good and maybe even better than that pro. It was almost as if Jaden was playing and performing on another level. Jaden won and made his way to the finals for the first time. It looked like Jaden was nervous but from the way he was playing it said otherwise. Before you know Jaden actually won. For four seasons Jaden has so much struggle and he finally won his first weekend tournament. As the people celebrated their new champion of a regional tournament the only thing he was typing the discord was a crying emoji and “Thank you everyone”.