Spring was definitely in the air at CHESS CLUB today !
There were two (non-theoretical) novelties:
* The Chess Visionary was good enough to supply us with piratical t-shirts.
* Thanks to a netbook passed along by the Chess Missus, we now have time controls !
To answer the Chess Visionary's doubts about whether I made up the expressions "a knight on the rim is dim" and "a knight on the rim is grim," a Google search brings up more than 2,300,000 hits. Not even I could type up that many pages in several hours !
Game 1: Chess Pirate - Gabridoodle, 0-1
Time control: Fischer; 15 minutes plus 30 seconds/move.
In this one, the Chess Pirate played like I did on Winter Island a couple weeks ago. I ripped her to pieces, delivering checkmate in hardly two dozen moves. Her exclamation of the day: "If you aren't going to play like a pirate, then go home !"
Game 2: Chess Visionary - Gabridoodle, 0-1
Time control: Fischer; 15 minutes plus 30 seconds/move.
The Chess Visionary's play improved noticeably, nevertheless she was dispatched in 39 moves, proving for the second time this day that "black is okay." After her collapse began, she pretty much gave up; a bad habit will need to be remedied: at CHESS CLUB, we fight to the finish !
Game 3: Chess Pirate - Gabridoodle, 1-0
Time control: Fischer; 0 minutes plus 30 seconds/move.
This game was so ultra-brisk that it wasn't even recorded ! I put up a good fight, but the Chess Pirate's mad genius impulsiveness payed off. Ironically, she got me in the sort of pawns-only endgame that I've recently been cutting Fritz in.
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