If you want the full game, please request... A lot of major blunders on my opponent's part and a serious blunder but mostly minor inaccuracies on mine.
The Charge of the Light Brigade.
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Underpromotion of 3 pawns to 3 knights. Cavalry Charge. I was winning the game and sacrificed all pawns and other pieces to arrive a this position. Yes, I know that Kd2 would've lasted longer... but still, if my opponent is bad enough to reach this position...well...
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
Rode the six hundred.
Rode the six hundred.
All in the valley of Death
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
2.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Someone had blunder'd:
Rode the six hundred.
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
3.
Cannon to right of them,
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
4.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
All the world wonder'd:
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Not the six hundred.
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Then they rode back, but not
5.
Cannon to right of them,
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Left of six hundred.
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
6.
When can their glory fade?
All the world wondered.
Noble six hundred.
O the wild charge they made!
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
The poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.