Fortunately, this sibling of Eugenio Torre was a chess coach and was kind enough to suggest a good chess club for me to go to. Though I ended up not attending chess lessons in Manila, I participated regularly in the weekend tournaments at a nearby club. He ran me through bishop endings – these happen when each side in a chess game has a single bishop on opposite-coloured squares, and no other pieces except pawns and kings. The unusual thing that happened was that while I was away at school, during the afternoons, my mother would watch an hour-long chess show on television called Chess Today, which analysed the games of leading players. Excerpted with permission from Lightning Kid: 64 Winning Lessons from the Boy Who Became Five-Time World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, Hachette India.