Sometimes You Get Lucky….
Thursday night, as usual, was my night for going to chess club. I played a slightly weaker player, but, with Black, I got a really bad position out of the opening. He should probably have crushed me. But I defended, and he missed his best moves, and I wound up a piece and three pawns ahead in material before doing something I only rarely do these days: Blundered away a piece. It was in time pressure, so I have some small excuse, but still—leaving a knight where it can be taken for nothing is not good.
But sometimes it’s better to be lucky than to be good, and after blundering away the piece, I was still up three pawns, with a killer central passed pawn. Once I got through time pressure, the win was easy.
Back on my Web site, I’ve been adding color to my chess diagrams. (I’ve also fixed a little bad analysis in my Playing for the Endgame “little lesson.”) It looks great! And I discovered that I can print out those diagrams after all—I had thought that although the diagrams displayed well, the bits of HTML code that call the program that makes them display as diagrams would just show up as gibberish when I printed the page. But no—they print beautifully. (But my printer needs new cartridges, both color and black-and-white, and my sister’s printer now needs a new black-and-white cartridge, so I’m temporarily not printing anything—an inconvenience, since I wrote a poem for tonight’s “poetry slam” that I’m now going to have to copy by hand in order to take with me.)
My nephews decided that they wanted to play a little baseball today, so we went out and played with a plastic ball and plastic bats. One of them had drawn home plate and three other bases, along with baselines and a pitching rubber, on the driveway, in chalk. I pitched what was essentially batting practice to them, but when they hit fair balls they ran around the bases. They seem to really enjoy it.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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