Sunday, September 25, 2005

Not the way I would have played it!

Wow, amazing how fast time flies by. I can't believe that it's been so long since my last post. As usual, it's just about time to start yet another journey into the great unknown. Another attempt to attain that ever elusive state of enlightenment. An enlightened man once said, "to get squares, you've got to give squares". I'm sure that in his mind he was talking about chess, but for this man chess was his life. But it does make one pause to consider... what was the position on the board when Renee Zellweger resigned. Well, technically, she didn't resign. She claimed that the game was a fraud, that it never happened. Hmmm, I wonder. Did Kenny not respect his Queen? I have heard rumors that he prefers the other pieces. One can only speculate.

Kenny does have a new album due out in November called "The Road and the Radio". The first single, titled "Who You'd be Today" is ok. Be sure to check it out:

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/chesney_kenny/artist.jhtml

Alright, time to go to bed. I have to play some freaking chess tomorrow! Larry is going to be late since he has to work until 10:30, so I get to play 1st board round 1. Gotta bring my "A" game, though it's been hiding really, really good lately. We'll see. I did manage to pull out a win on the ICC tonight against one of the computers, but it wasn't a great win. Or, maybe it was a great win but I'm just not good enough to realize it. Either way, it was a win. Here it is:

[Event "ICC 15 0"]
[Site "Internet Chess Club"]
[Date "2005.09.24"]
[Round "-"]
[White "KickMe"]
[Black "EdBorowski"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ICCResult "White checkmated"]
[WhiteElo "1991"]
[BlackElo "1955"]
[Opening "QGD Slav: Slav gambit"]
[ECO "D15"]
[NIC "SL.03"]
[Time "23:37:22"]
[TimeControl "900+0"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. e4 Bg4 6. Bxc4 e6 7. O-O Bb4 8.
Qb3 Bxc3 9. Qxb7 Nbd7 10. bxc3 Bxf3 11. gxf3 O-O 12. Qxc6 Nb6 13. Ba6 Qe7
14. Bf4 Nh5 15. Qc7 Qf6 16. Bd6 Qxf3 17. Rfc1 Rfd8 18. Bb7 Rab8 19. c4 Na8
20. Qxb8 Rxb8 21. Bxb8 Nb6 22. Bxa7 Nd7 23. Bc6 Ndf6 24. Re1 Ng4 25. d5 Nf4
26. d6 Qg2# {White checkmated} 0-1

and now, to all, a good night!