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That's hilariousFrigidus wrote:So I was at the state chess final of my senior year, playing Board 1 since the usual Board 1 got pulled from the team for bad grades. We were up against one of the higher ranked schools, and considering that we were only 3-2 so far our hopes weren't exactly high. I played their first board, who had gone undefeated so far, pretty well (aside from a pawn I couldn't hang onto) until about 30 moves in I missed an obvious pin that lost my rook to his bishop. Although things at first seemed pretty dismal, I realized that under a proper trade I could get my pawn back and end up only being down a rook to a bishop. After playing passively for a while and trading off most of our major pieces, he moved his last rook into a very aggressive position, and there was no way for me to stop him from gobbling most of my pawns: just what I was hoping for. After a little maneuvering and a bishop sack I had two connected passed pawns on his 6th rank, and he didn't have enough time to bring his overly aggressive pieces back to stop my promotion. After I won our 4th board grabbed me by the soldiers and told me I was a fucking hero. We won the match by a few points and went on to win the last round to end with a record of 5-2. What made it even better was that two of our best players weren't there, and even with them we were only hoping for a 4-3. Best weekend of my life.
This season I've saved us from a loss twice already. Both times I was the last person playing on our team. The first one was almost sheer luck, I was down by one Knight but spotted a combination through which I could get my opponents Rook, I didn't want to push my luck however and 10 moves later we agreed to a draw which secured us the 3 - 3.Frigidus wrote:So I was at the state chess final of my senior year, playing Board 1 since the usual Board 1 got pulled from the team for bad grades. We were up against one of the higher ranked schools, and considering that we were only 3-2 so far our hopes weren't exactly high. I played their first board, who had gone undefeated so far, pretty well (aside from a pawn I couldn't hang onto) until about 30 moves in I missed an obvious pin that lost my rook to his bishop. Although things at first seemed pretty dismal, I realized that under a proper trade I could get my pawn back and end up only being down a rook to a bishop. After playing passively for a while and trading off most of our major pieces, he moved his last rook into a very aggressive position, and there was no way for me to stop him from gobbling most of my pawns: just what I was hoping for. After a little maneuvering and a bishop sack I had two connected passed pawns on his 6th rank, and he didn't have enough time to bring his overly aggressive pieces back to stop my promotion. After I won our 4th board grabbed me by the soldiers and told me I was a fucking hero. We won the match by a few points and went on to win the last round to end with a record of 5-2. What made it even better was that two of our best players weren't there, and even with them we were only hoping for a 4-3. Best weekend of my life.
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Yup, only one team can win them all, and sometimes nobody does.MeDeFe wrote:This season I've saved us from a loss twice already. Both times I was the last person playing on our team. The first one was almost sheer luck, I was down by one Knight but spotted a combination through which I could get my opponents Rook, I didn't want to push my luck however and 10 moves later we agreed to a draw which secured us the 3 - 3.Frigidus wrote:So I was at the state chess final of my senior year, playing Board 1 since the usual Board 1 got pulled from the team for bad grades. We were up against one of the higher ranked schools, and considering that we were only 3-2 so far our hopes weren't exactly high. I played their first board, who had gone undefeated so far, pretty well (aside from a pawn I couldn't hang onto) until about 30 moves in I missed an obvious pin that lost my rook to his bishop. Although things at first seemed pretty dismal, I realized that under a proper trade I could get my pawn back and end up only being down a rook to a bishop. After playing passively for a while and trading off most of our major pieces, he moved his last rook into a very aggressive position, and there was no way for me to stop him from gobbling most of my pawns: just what I was hoping for. After a little maneuvering and a bishop sack I had two connected passed pawns on his 6th rank, and he didn't have enough time to bring his overly aggressive pieces back to stop my promotion. After I won our 4th board grabbed me by the soldiers and told me I was a fucking hero. We won the match by a few points and went on to win the last round to end with a record of 5-2. What made it even better was that two of our best players weren't there, and even with them we were only hoping for a 4-3. Best weekend of my life.
The next game was 3 - 2 against us, I had to win. Luckily I had played a very aggressive game taking two of the other guys pawns in front of his King at the cost of a bishop and managed to use one of my Knights and my second Bishop to keep the King from getting away and my opponents other pieces from easily getting there. I kept up the pressure, got a third pawn, a Bishop at no cost and set him checkmate a little later. Didn't work today though, but then again, that team is undefeated in 6 games.