Let´s recapitulate:
1. e4 d5
2. exd5 Qxd5
3. Nc3 Qd6
4. Nb5 Qd8
5. d4 Nf6
6. Bf4 Nbd7
7. Nxc7+ Qxc7
8. Bxc7 Nd5
9. Bg3 g6
10. Bc4 e5
11. Bxd5 Bg7
12. Qf3 Nf6
13. Ne2 e4
14. Bxe4 o-o
15. o-o Bd7
16. Bxb7
The Game of the Centuries - two collectors go berserk
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King Herman and his decimated army making their stand.
16 - Rae8
17. Bd6
The battle rages on.
Never before had the Baltic vikings encountered such a fierce enemy. King Herman sent four of his best men to scout behind enemy lines. They found an empty container marked "MONSTER Aussie Lemonade".
So that was the answer! The foreign party had some very potent magical mead! A potion that made them brave, strong and impervious to the Baltic vikings swords and axes. Magic. Black magic...
17. - Bg4.
hermanjohnell wrote:
17. Bd6
The battle rages on.
This is the second time the position otb is not in accord with the scoresheet.. You seem to be taking turns at testing the spectator's awareness! Or could it be that pics from many worlds are crossing through this thread? I would say the missing piece is in the air, but it is Black's turn.. My only answer is that if we zoomed out, the white Lewis queen would sit alone on f3 on a big empty chessboard, carrying the chessboard Lewis King Herman and Lewis King Powder besit contemplating the travel Stauntons in her lap. Where will the bishop g4 appear? Only the next splinters falling from the kaleidoscope can pinhole the darkness of our horizon.
ungewichtet wrote:
hermanjohnell wrote:
17. Bd6
The battle rages on.
This is the second time the position otb is not in accord with the scoresheet.. You seem to be taking turns at testing the spectator's awareness! Or could it be that pics from many worlds are crossing through this thread? I would say the missing piece is in the air, but it is Black's turn.. My only answer is that if we zoomed out, the white Lewis queen would sit alone on f3 on a big empty chessboard, carrying the chessboard Lewis King Herman and Lewis King Powder besit contemplating the travel Stauntons in her lap. Where will the bishop g4 appear? Only the next splinters falling from the kaleidoscope can pinhole the darkness of our horizon.
I report as I see the board. You may draw your own conclusions...
Dec 15, 2023
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#50
Perhaps the Powder army has had too much caffeine and Herman’s men are now fighting back … understanding that this magic elixir is nothing when compared to Viking spirit combined with the real mead that his dark army is consuming … it also appears he has reached out to the gods and had two kings overseeing a small replica board from clouds they inhabit…. What is this distraction. Meanwhile, players with higher chess nous and skill watch these amateurs - chuckling to themselves about the ineptitude of both sides … alas, at least the pieces are beautiful, if the game is ugly.🤦♂️
Hey, tis a brawl, no effing beauty contest!
Dec 15, 2023
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#52
Alas, your army must learn that beauty and might are not mutually exclusive … if boxing is the sweet science … perhaps this battle will illustrate the Viking’s art …
DesperateKingWalk wrote:
It was time to lay down on the sword after 6. .. Nbd7??
and stop all the fun?
That's right, you would not drum up the game of the centuries and end it after the first skirmish, only because it lost your queen. Very good to watch you going berserk 
Half of his artillery ambushed, and to be destroyed,
whilst cavalry he captures on the other flank,
King Herman prayed and prayed, of his loses annoyed,
many battles rage all over, fierce, but frank.
Neighbours are watching, even a defeatist appear:
should the King give up Kingdom, and lose in fear?
Losses are lost, mourned, and time again flies,
There is, and always must be Hope, until one dies.
Feck it, said king Herman, it´s not much fun without Ödhumbla. Let´s give up and celebrate Yule. Hanging slaves and horses from an oak as sacrifices to Thor so that he brings us the sun back. And so he and his men did.
Dec 23, 2023
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#58
King Herman, thank you for a game played in good spirit. It was always about the pieces and so I finish with a few more photos of these wonderful Lewis pieces.👍
The game continues and the battlefield is littered with the ghosts of vacated Vikings…. The white king looks possessed, drawing on ancient ghouls to slay the red army… and the bishop is wondering why he is alone … but the bigger issue is off the battlefield, how the backup battalions can keep the captured pieces from escaping.
