*giggle* I can play chess (though I'm woefully out of practice), and have studied it enough to know the jargon. Poor Stan, getting caught by an unfamiliar usage of "fork"!
Complaining about having to play with novices is something I think of as being a trait of those who are only a few steps above novice themselves. In contradancing, it's often the best and most experienced dancers who will seek out new people and ask them to dance, partly to be friendly and partly because it's much easier to learn from someone who already knows how to dance well. Similarly, it's probably easier for Stan to learn from Lawrence, who is a lot better than he is, than it would be for him to play the low-level players.
Okay, he's got the idea that the chess players don't hang around and coddle someone who's having to take a rest. Now will he connect that to the way Lawrence acted when he was sick? Can he flip it around in his head and see that the way he was acting made Lawrence as uncomfortable as the way the chess-club members acting made him until he figured it out?
"He's weird," Wyatt said. "So're you, deal with it," Lawrence said.
*snerk* That sounds like my circle of friends.
And Stan is right that Lawrence can be a good leader, he just hasn't learned to generalize it to other things yet. Which means that leadership is something they have in common, and a bonding point... once Stan can convince Lawrence that yes, he really is leading the chess club. Hmmm, I wonder if Lawrence thinks that he can only do that by virtue of Mr. Marshall's reflected authority? But if he didn't have the skills, the other kids would roll right over him.
Does Lawrence play any sort of RPG games? Talking about it in terms of stats might make more sense to him if he does.
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Date: 2014-11-02 01:21 am (UTC)Complaining about having to play with novices is something I think of as being a trait of those who are only a few steps above novice themselves. In contradancing, it's often the best and most experienced dancers who will seek out new people and ask them to dance, partly to be friendly and partly because it's much easier to learn from someone who already knows how to dance well. Similarly, it's probably easier for Stan to learn from Lawrence, who is a lot better than he is, than it would be for him to play the low-level players.
Okay, he's got the idea that the chess players don't hang around and coddle someone who's having to take a rest. Now will he connect that to the way Lawrence acted when he was sick? Can he flip it around in his head and see that the way he was acting made Lawrence as uncomfortable as the way the chess-club members acting made him until he figured it out?
"He's weird," Wyatt said.
"So're you, deal with it," Lawrence said.
*snerk* That sounds like my circle of friends.
And Stan is right that Lawrence can be a good leader, he just hasn't learned to generalize it to other things yet. Which means that leadership is something they have in common, and a bonding point... once Stan can convince Lawrence that yes, he really is leading the chess club. Hmmm, I wonder if Lawrence thinks that he can only do that by virtue of Mr. Marshall's reflected authority? But if he didn't have the skills, the other kids would roll right over him.
Does Lawrence play any sort of RPG games? Talking about it in terms of stats might make more sense to him if he does.