Broadway Baby: Interview with Kevin James Doyle
Kevin, your show, After Endgame, is about how strategies learned in playing chess can be applied to life. How did you come to that realisation?
One of the most important moments in chess is the post-game analysis I have been using storytelling to teach chess strategies to kids for over twelve years, which you can't do without learning some lessons. For example, if you lose your queen, your most powerful weapon on the board, should you quit or give up? Some part of you will want to give up, but I have played games where I came back from a blunder like that and won. I had to adapt to my new circumstances, develop a new strategy, regroup and figure out how to use my less powerful pieces creatively, not give away that I had made a huge mistake and, most importantly, not give up. There are about 50 life lessons right there.
