Fantomen
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Stockholm, Sweden 
Member Since: Sep 9, 2008
Last Login: Nov 9, 2009
Profile Views: 647
Points: 182
Occupation: retired high school teacher
About Me:
I was already over 35 when I first joined a chess club. But my greatest chess memory happened when I was 15. We (my school class) were in Germany for 10 days in the early summer of 1954. We visited a German school, and we had a Sweden-Germany match in different events like running, jumping and CHESS. Everything well organized. I was chosen to play the chess game as I was pretty sure about how the chess pieces moved. Suddenly - rather early in the game - my German opponent stood up, shook my hand and thanked me for a good game. He gave up and I didn't understand why. I couldn´t very well ask him in front of the applauding audience. Even today, 55 years later, I wonder what happened in that game.
Perhaps my opponent is an active member of chess.com now and happens to read this and ... (I would grant him a rematch - Promise !)
Fantomen is Swedish for The Phantom.