Once again, Salem CHESS CLUB extends its thanks to the Boylston Chess Club and Grandmaster Larry Christiansen for organizing the monthly simultaneous
exhibition at Boston's South Station.
As we would expect from a notorious
woodpusher, the Gabridoodle lost both games. He did manage to make a few interesting moves in the first game but in the second, the grandmaster was fully in command.
Christiansen, Larry - Gabridoodle, 1-0
The key moment in the game occurred at move 16. Christiansen's move of his horse to c6
preheats the oven in which the Gabridoodle's goose is soon to be cooked. The Gabridoodle has to save his queen (which won't have much scope anyway) and Christiansen snaffles up the pony at f6 with his
rook. The Gabridoodle at least knew not to recapture that rook; he avoided a
deadly trap but also lost material.
A bit of
gallows humor at move 25... The Gabridoodle remarks, after moving his bishop, "There's no pawn like a tall pawn." Christiansen shot back, "It's not that tall."
Here we are at move 28. The Gabridoodle resigns, since it's clearly time to move on to the next game.
Christiansen, Larry - Gabridoodle, 1-0
Again, Christiansen has the white pieces, as is the custom at these exhibition games. Here, at move 7, the Gabridoodle has been caught
napping. A simple pawn push by Christiansen traps the bishop.
The Gabridoodle never really recovered from that early blow, so it was all over at move 20. This wasn't the first time Christiansen used a pawn to
torment the Gabridoodle in this fashion.
