Oct
10
We’ve got some nice sibling rivalry today, and I figured I would gloat. I dominated my older brother Chris in the game below.
1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bf5 5. O-O Nc6 6. c3 Qd6 7. Bf4 Qd7 8. Be5 Nxe5 9. dxe5 Ne4 10. Qd4 O-O-O 11. e6 Qxe6 12. Qxh8 Bh6 13. Qxh7 Bd2 14. Nbxd2 Nxd2 15. Nxd2 Qxe2 16. Rfd1 e6 17. Qxf7 Be4 18. Qxe6+ Kb8 19. Nxe4 dxe4 20. Rxd8# 1-0
Nice game.
chess story coming up….
I learned to play chess very young. I was taught by my strange genius uncle – who would send me moves on bar napkins (he was this prodigy that could do anything, he had a degree in metalurgical engineering and was working for a major toy company and he “snapped”. he eventually ended up being the “cooler” card dealer in one of the vegas casinos – he was the one they brought in to end your luck…he lived in a trailer and drank himself to death)
-he was at chess, like most things, a genius. Once we had some games in, and I learned the basics I then started reading books on openings and strategies and such as I wanted to beat him. As it got more competative and he noticed my play improving he would send me notes (often written in marker on the back of x-rated flyers for escort services..mom loved that…).
At one point we started another game, and it was like any other until I received a package in the mail. It was a chess board. Not just any chess board either – it was the chess board for the “civil war chess set” from the franklin mint. with it were two pawns – 1 of his color, 1 of mine. – I had recently taken a pawn. As I took his pieces, he would send me that piece and my equivalent. It took 3 years for me to complete the set, and it was the only time I ever beat him.
About 1 year later they found him dead after no one saw him for several weeks.