1 Mar 2013: kind of like a back-ranker

Thanks to great confusion earlier in the afternoon, the Chess Pirate was kind enough to serve lunch at today's meeting.  Her cooking repertoire is evidently not limited to Italian quiche.

While the Gabridoodle retained The Shiny, the real news of the day is that we have the First Annual Salem CHESS CLUB Chess Jamboree planned !  There may be a tournament of some sort, perhaps even awarding a shiny object (though not The Shiny).  New players are welcome and lessons can be given for the benefit of the inexperienced.  Stay tuned in case the arrangements change, but the current plan is that it will take place at Salem's Jaho Café on Friday March 15th at 2:00 pm.

In other CLUB business,                                                       .                        .                                                    .  However, the Pirate failed to truly grasp the reference to Catholic practices.

Gabridoodle - Chess Pirate, 1-0

Today was one of those days when the Pirate was determined to exchange pieces.  There were indeed a number of exchanges but the Gabridoodle was careful to hang onto his queen.  The Pirate made a valiant effort at putting him in a jam but he wriggled away and then sailed on to the victory shown at left -- a back-ranker but in the middle of the board.


The Pirate did at least get a number of choice comments in over the course of the game, notably:

"To the killing fields !"

"Big fucking deal.  It's a bishop."

"So chickenshit crawls away."

Just for fun, the Gabridoodle and the Chess Pirate next played a game of chess 960, aka Fischer Random with only 10 minutes each on the clock.  The starting position is shown in the diagram at left.  The game was neck-and-neck until the Pirate robbed the Gabridoodle of a bishop.  The Pirate then ground him down but much to her consternation, the Gabridoodle managed to lose on time before she could deliver mate.