Throughout the last 4 years I have been fortunate enough to have had the company of friends who are not only smart people but have an intelligent and curious outlook towards the world. I think that it is relatively easy to be good at something, anything if only you start early enough and work relentlessly [...]
Tag Archives: chess
Clash of the Titans
… A.A. moves his Knight to d5 Tress Vandeley: (Brilliant, brilliant. That’s a shrewd one right there. In one fell swoop he has managed to save the fork that was going to be threatening his Queen and Rook 7 moves down the line and build up a momentum which gives him strategic play in the [...]
Chess-Men
K: Now that we are standing here, with some time remaining for the battle to begin, I’d like to know how you guys are feeling. It’s very important that we act as a unit and everyone does what he’s asked for. I remember the last time, because of your sheer incompetence, I was humiliated by [...]
Chequered and Flagged
The pieces set gleaming in crimson light the players sweat o’er impending fight him taking black, it’s me who has the white who gallantly gallops his gallant knight He moves his pawn to gain the center stage and my pawn brings us both on the same page his knight, my bishop, such a trembling rage [...]