Letter to a friend, about your favourite game

{Your Address},

{City} {Pin Code}.

{Date}.

Dear {Your Friend Name},

          Thanks for your letter; with your praises of cricket as the finest game in the world. I don't want to dispute that; but it is not my favourite. I have two favourite games, one for out-of-doors, and one for indoors.

          For exercise and interest, I like tennis best of all outdoor games. Football and hockey are too violent to suit me ; cricket is too slow; badminton is childish. But tennis gives you plenty of exercise ; it develops quickness of eye and limb; and it calls your brain, your thinking power, into action. A few sets of tennis in the evening keep me physically and mentally fit.

          For indoors, chess is the queen of games. I take no interest in card games; and draughts after chess is like water after wine. People say chess is a selfish game, because only two can play at a time. Well, I don't see that bridge is only less selfish, simply because four play instead of two. They also say it is slow. No chess-player ever says this. For an outsider it may look slow to see two men sitting silent and making a move only every few minutes. But to the two players, it is all the time intensely exciting. There is no game that so absorbs you like chess.

          You will probably scoff; but I don't mind.

Yours very sincerely,

{Your Name}