Ilya and Dash finally played our first chess game, which lasted more than 3 hours, and into the early hours of the Sunday morning. At intervals of the game, quotations from Shakespeare such as "A horse! A horse for my kingdom", one-word utterances such as "Madness!", and grim sayings such as "And the game gets darker" were heard in the living room. : ) Not bad considering that Dash started out in the evening with basic questions such as "Which piece is the Queen? The taller one?", "Where does the bishop and the horse go?" and "Hey, you can stick a note on the hat of the bishop!" Ilya won the game - and interestingly, it was the quiet little soldier at the corner of the chessboard that played the crucial function in cornering Dash's King during a pursuit ^_^ Nice work! (Thanks, Jerry, for the chess set! ^_^V Ilya and I really had a lot of fun at the game : )Sunday, November 15, 2009
Ilya and Dash's Very 1st Chess Game : )
Ilya and Dash finally played our first chess game, which lasted more than 3 hours, and into the early hours of the Sunday morning. At intervals of the game, quotations from Shakespeare such as "A horse! A horse for my kingdom", one-word utterances such as "Madness!", and grim sayings such as "And the game gets darker" were heard in the living room. : ) Not bad considering that Dash started out in the evening with basic questions such as "Which piece is the Queen? The taller one?", "Where does the bishop and the horse go?" and "Hey, you can stick a note on the hat of the bishop!" Ilya won the game - and interestingly, it was the quiet little soldier at the corner of the chessboard that played the crucial function in cornering Dash's King during a pursuit ^_^ Nice work! (Thanks, Jerry, for the chess set! ^_^V Ilya and I really had a lot of fun at the game : )
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Excellent. But three hours? That's some first game.
Yep :) But I think if I want Ilya to continue to play chess with me, I have to modify the game a little -- next up, speed chess. All in 5 minutes. Let's see if it works out :)
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