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Slack.com slash DHQ. Checkmate, Queens Gambit, checkmate. Everyone's playing chess now online.

Chess is the best-selling game I think people are watching the show and saying, I want to

play that. Queens forward a bishops 9, knight 7 to rook 3. Checkmate is when there are no

more moves. In chess, that is the expression for when you are going to win the game and

there's absolutely nothing that your opponent can do. Literally nothing your opponent can

do. Well, we've got a checkmate situation. It doesn't happen often in sports. To me,

you're not checkmated until you have gotten your 27th out or the clock read 0.00, much

like Blutarski's grade point average. Checkmate, I reserve for instances in business when there

is not a counter move. So it's the equivalent of chess and it doesn't happen very often at

all. Because when you're running a business, there's always something you can do. There's

always a play. You can make an adjustment. You can adjust your products. You can adjust

your pricing. You can adjust your supply chain. You can artificially create demand. There's

always something to do in your business, in your schoolwork. You can always study harder,

study smarter, study better, study longer. Checkmate happened in the Houston Rockets organization

to a man who makes his money by people losing money inside casinos. Checkmate happened when

James Harden decided as we told you he had that he would no longer play for the rockets,

that it was no longer good enough to get $50 million a year. It was no longer good enough

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