
OTB final?
OTB
Maybe the final for the year
Captain, my captain! Do we have any chance at all to win our division? This is something I will find out later in the coming week. If not .. Then I get to skip the final week's play next month so that I can play in a golf tournament.
Not very dedicated. I’m such a slouch. I can win a few hundred dollars playing golf (maybe) and I’ve already won my place in the chess league. Ten dollars .. count ‘em .. Ten dollars. Also, I may get a trophy .. I only have to wait until next December.
But I promised to play if the team needs me .. And I will play .. If we have a chance.
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My nerves got the better of me today. By the twelfth move my gut was shaking like a earthquake. I was that certain I had a won game and it completely un-nerved me. For the second time, I was playing Mr J. Flohr. Still quite a gentleman, he had stolen a few hours from his granddaughter’s birthday to play. I suspect that Jeff has never met a gambit he didn’t like. Whether the gambit was OTB or with his wife’s patience. I can just hear him now, “Honey, she’s going to be turning 14 all day long, I’m only going to be playing chess for 5 hours at the most.”
As it was, he only needed two hours and ten minutes. Herein is the game.