A Chess Club in a skyscraper. A story for children

A Chess Club in a skyscraper. A story for children about Seryozha.


Any business requires the movement and the development.

Seryozha got acquainted with the director of a hotel located in a skyscraper.

The hotel director was a chess player of a serious level.

In addition, he was actively thinking in different directions.

Seryozha liked the director's suggestion: to place the Chess Club on the highest floor of the hotel so that the Chess Club would be visible to all citizens (townspeople).

Naturally, a small renovation (preparation) was needed on this very top floor.

Relying on his connections in the city media and on his fame in the city, Seryozha called on the citizens to donate money to carry out repairs for the new premises for the Chess Club.

All the townspeople wanted their children to grow up smart and to be able to play chess. Moreover, rumors have spread about the inclusion of chess in the school curriculum and about the conduct of final exams (testing) in chess. That is, chess, in a sense, could provide the children of the townspeople with broad life prospects.

Money poured in as a stream, - into a special bank account opened by Seryozha. Seryozha signed an agreement with the director of the hotel. So, Seryozha transferred the necessary amount of money to the hotel every week.

Seryozha was given a card of the "guest of honor of the hotel".

Seryozha enjoyed regularly visiting the hotel. There was a doorman in a cap and uniform at the entrance, who was helpfully opening the main entrance door for Seryozha.

Next, Seryozha was entering a transparent elevator and headed to the top floor. Through the glass doors and walls of the elevator, he could see muscular movers (loaders) busily dragging bags of construction materials to the top floor.

Seryozha received an explanation from the director of the hotel, supported by a mathematical calculation set out on a piece of paper. The repair and maintenance of a freight elevator are very expensive procedures. It is much cheaper to hire movers to carry loads.

Having climbed to the top floor, Seryozha was inspecting the premises being repaired and the building materials delivered for repair, sandbags and sacks with various building mixes.

A couple of times he tried to calculate the cost of building materials, but it turned out that it was not so easy to do.

The director of the hotel explained that the renovation is in the process, is "in the movement." Something is being bought, something is being used. The surplus is returned, or sold. To act on (to document) every step of the movers is generally a pointless task.

Gradually, Seryozha became "the person of inner circle" - for the hotel. He found out that the doorman has a pleasant face, and that he seduced one of the young maids.

If someone's coat disappeared from the wardrobe, then the doorman, with his polite gaze and with his pleasant face, calmed down any hotel guest who began to boil.

It was very pleasant to see the doorman when Seryozha visiting the hotel. Moreover, Seryozha gradually began to perceive the doorman as a kind of walking "Carnegie", from whom one could learn "how to make friends and to influence people."

On one of his visits, Seryozha was disappointed by the absence of a doorman.

It turned out that several very expensive women's fur coats were missing from the wardrobe. The companions of the ladies (who had lost their fur coats) were angry. The doorman was transferred to the analytical department. Now he was sitting in a small office on the administrative floor.

At the same time, the idleness of the loaders was discovered. When it came time to pay their salaries, information appeared: that they had misled the hotel administration. They did not carry loads to the upper floor, but they were playing cards and were drinking off their previously received salaries.

Moreover, there were witnesses who saw loaders (or persons similar to them) in the wardrobe, which made it possible to assume that they were the ones who stole expensive women's fur coats.

Seryozha was confused. The renovation should have been completed long ago, the townspeople and members of the Chess Club should have been able to look at each other through the huge glass windows of the top floor (of the hotel) long ago.

It is clear that neither Seryozha nor the hotel director are to blame for this situation. Most likely, unshaven, thin loaders are to blame. Everyone were convinced that they were carrying sandbags up the stairs to the top floor, but it turns out that they were drinking beer and playing a "fool game" - playing cards. Perhaps the stalled repair is also their fault.

But, the townspeople, who donated considerable money to prepare the premises for the Chess Club, could feel a discomfort concerning their donations.

Seryozha decided to give the director of the hotel the badge "A Skilled Chess Player".

The television broadcast of this event will cheer up the townspeople, will create a confidence in the positive course of affairs.

Handing "A Skilled Chess Player" badge to the director and shaking hands with him, Seryozha will thereby announce that the entire hotel has become, in a sense, the premises of the Chess Club.

And this option is even better than carrying out repairs on the top floor and placing a Chess Club there!

Seryozha continued to visit the hotel periodically. For several days he will have to open the main entrance door himself. But this is not so difficult, especially if to take into account the lessons learned - lessons of the skillful chess game.


May 24, 2024, 21:29


Translation from Russian into English: May 24, 2024 23:32
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