Blue Box

You are the current champion in Galactic Chess. During the galactic tournament you are challenged by an upstart race that has been winning one match after another. Excited to meet this human genius you are instead greeted by...

Based on a Writing Prompt from r/writingprompts by u/AndrejikSK.
This was going to be a short story, but It started developing really quickly. Might turn into a novella. We'll see how it goes. It's not going to be full blown novel, cause I don't want to spend too much time on it, but the idea does have some interesting concepts that I want to explore and it's good practice.
I'm hoping this will be my first finished piece after my 15-page novel from 6th grade.