"He just really loved the game," said Emily Kovner Moss, Miller's mother. "He loved looking at the board and the strategy of it all."
For that, Emily Kovner Moss largely credits the man who ran the chess program, Mel Bloch, a Vietnam vet and pony-tailed poet whose years teaching the game in the community made him a fixture in Santa Monica.
One thing Mel really did is he taught Miller how to not win, which was still an important lesson in the learning process."
Chess, for Moss, served as a critical precursor to that role, shaping how his mind works as a quarterback.
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