Archive for July 9th, 2022

A/C

Posted in Life beyond the chess board on July 9, 2022| Leave a Comment »

I don’t wish to cut myself as a lonesome figure but it is 0212. I just woke up and grabbed 4 hours sleep, now another dark room with the sound of the A/C is all I have. Yes social media is helping because everyone else is asleep but I sit up in bed, alone. I’m not in the right frame of mind to play chess, just annoyed I didn’t sleep longer. A dark silent room with everyone asleep is why I come online. No chess, just chatting to some girl I met…she says she is lonely. This is my life: dark hours leadened with silence and the sound of the A/C. I have no one to talk to here, everything is closed. I am online.

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Sea air

Posted in On-line journal on July 9, 2022| Leave a Comment »

By the seaside we be. Listening to this track, I sit on the sofa.

Now to play that song again, and again and play an online game as well. I assure you I shall be victorious and will post it here.

And as expected but in naughty boy mode by stealing little moves that don’t seem to do much until my position is clearly won.

https://lichess.org/POslTxBxpLYe

Terminal 21 for shopping, then a walk along the beach coming right up! The joys of time off work!

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Dear Ken 5

Posted in Dear Ken on July 9, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Welcome to Ken, agony uncle for troubled chess players.

Grant, Luton Dear Ken, recently my team was whitewashed 5-0 in the Beds league. The reason this happened is three of the team members arrived several hours early at the social club we play in, and started off a massive drinking session. By the time the match had started, they had been dancing on the dance floor and were buying in rounds for everyone in the team, meaning that by half way in the match some of us were a bit tipsy and some of us hammered. One player fell asleep at the board and lost on time, another fell off his chair. How am I to discourage such debauchery on a match evening?

KEN: you don’t, you have a good knees up and a laugh. Forget about the chess, it’s not that important. I suggest you join in the rounds and have a proper session next time. Laddish culture and all that.

Grant, Luton but Ken, on the way home one team player took a taxi and it crashed, throwing him through the windscreen into some bushes and he has no recollection of it!

KEN: nice one my son!

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