Hi everybody
Just a quick passing post....
I'm practicing my chess 'vision' i.e. my ability to see instantly or within the first 10 seconds of looking at the board where the potential skewers, forks and pins may be available.
The problem is, we still have lots of foul, dirty, tempting goodies around the house I load up on sugar and fat (well must help the kids avoid obesity!) and then get on with my practice and all goes well for a while.
Queen moves around looking for said attacks, knight jumps around avoiding Queenie and before I know it I am riding the knights horse around the board and falling in love with the Queen who now looks like the version on Queen Elizabeth I from Black Adder.
I ask for a date, she asks for my head and before the fatal blow my darling 11 year old wakes me up from my comfy slumber across the board. 'Are you coming to bed daddy? you were talking in your sleep'
Another session ending in weird fantasy. I go to bed and answer my wifes sarcastic query of 'how is your study going?' with an embarrassed, guilty reply of 'ok I suppose' sounding more like a grumpy teenager, of which I will no doubt be experiencing in a few short years!
An odd post I admit but I intend to write a bit more over the coming weeks and for anyone at all interested, you will see my rise from a complete nobody with a rating of 1100 on my last check (over a year ago) into a club villain who wins tourneys from nowhere....mwhahahaha!
Ok bedtime.
Speak soon,
checkmate!
