Tambling Monkeys By Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Analysis

How many mistakes are acceptable to make in order to win? Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower correctly argues that it doesn’t truly matter, as long as you don’t make the very last one. He was speaking of chess, but this also applies to many parts of life, especially the competitive ones. The one to make the last mistake is always the one to lose, as can be seen in games, competitions, and sports. And although one could argue that the winner must be more cunning or a better player to win, it all comes down to the one to make the very last error.
This philosophy can be seen through many parts of life, such as in kids’ board games. As a kid, I used to play a game called “Tumbling Monkeys” with my brothers. This game was set up with a plastic, hollow
Each player took turns pulling out one of the sticks, attempting not to let any of the monkeys fall out of the tree. The first person to let any of the monkeys fall was the loser. If you made a fault, pulling the wrong stick, it cost you the game. This is a similar concept as several other kids games, such as Jenga and Yeti in My Spaghetti. In Jenga, you have to be careful not to knock over a wooden tower, while attempting to pull out a piece of the tower at each turn. In the game Yeti in My Spaghetti, you place plastic “noodles” on top of a bowl, then place a toy yeti on top of that. The objective of the game is to pull noodles out from under the yeti without letting him fall into the bowl. Again, the loser in this game is the one to let the yeti fall into the bowl. In all these kids games, the loser is the one to make the very last mistake, ending the game. However, there is a deeper meaning behind this. These 3 games were all created for kids, introducing the prospect of winner/loser along with it. By playing these games, kids are already placing an emphasis on the winning the game,
In this book, 24 kids from the country of Panem are placed in an arena and forced to fight to the death. Near the end of the fight, 3 kids are left: Katniss, Peeta, and Cato. They are all being chased by mutts, who are clearly trying to kill them. Katniss and Peeta, who have formed an alliance, climb to the top of the Cornucopia to escape, while Cato attempts to follow them. However, he slips during his climb, falls to the ground, and is immediately attacked by the mutts. He soon dies, and Katniss and Peeta are declared the victors. In this “game,” Cato made the last mistake by falling, and it cost him the game - and his life. In this gruesome book, winning may not have been the best outcome. Although you came out alive, you would have to live with the memories of death and destruction for your entire life, and that’s almost worse. There’s more to life than winning. Society places such an emphasis on the outcome that we lose sight of the most important part - the experience. Although in the Hunger Games, Cato made the last mistake, in the end it was better to die than to live with the