2. Plot Summary The story is about an old man who is playing chess. He doesn’t have anyone to play with, so he plays by himself. He gets very into it, and gets upset when one of himself starts beating the other. He finds a way to cheat, and ends up winning. At the end, he realized that he was playing by himself, but was still happy anyways.

3. Exposition He is a old man. He is most likely lonely since he is playing chess by himself, and he dressed nicely.

4. Initiating Event The initiating event is when he sits down to play chess and notices that he has no one to play with.

5. Rising Action The rising action is when he is playing chess with himself. And all of the different moves that he would make, which would make the “other” him frustrated.

6. Climax The climax is when he was about to lose against him self, so he pretended to be hurt.

7. Falling Action The falling action is after he fakes being sick, he flips the board around so he has the winning side of the board. Afterwards he keeps on playing and then beats the other version of himself.

8. Resolution In the end, the original man who started playing chess won the game, and was very happy. He then sees that he was playing by himself, but it still very happy with himself.

9. Antagonist & Protagonist The protagonist is the man who originally came to play chess. The antagonist is the man that original man started imagining.

10. The End