Ran 4 miles at 7:00am and the sky was gray and the air cool, then walked to the library for 4 hours of chess study, a man named Dmitry asked to play, he was decent with tactics but his openings and positional sense was below standard, in the middle game I had built up a strong position against his un-castled king and was threatening Bxd3 -
Dmitry made his move, Nc1, I wrote it down and continued playing, not realizing that Nc1 is an illegal move.
After Nc1 I lost the thread of the game and made a number of poor moves and lost the rook on b2 in exchange for his bishop. Later in the game I was teetering on the ledge of defeat when I was gifted with a chess miracle, checkmating Dmitry with a rook and 2 bishops, a karmic gift to perhaps make up for Nc1!
| Read Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces - |
| g38 Tarrasch/Rubinstein (J) |
| Library game - Dmitry/J |
| Read First Steps : Caro Kann (Martin) - |
| g55 Anderson/Hawkins (J) |
