A real game of chess in my early days when I logged in in a paltry 1700 elo. 2 hours for each one in their clock, my opponent with an elo of 1900+. It was a team game for a local championship, and their team was stronger so everyone had to pull off more than they were supposed to. So you can imagine my facepalm when I blundered right off in the opening moving one piece when I should have moved another (I had to move both, but I blundered in the order of the moves) to defend my not-so-good position. Once I made the move I immediately saw what I had done. If he had brains he would sacrifice a knight and utterly shatter my pawn structure... then I saw that it really could shatter the entire structure of my game.
Damn. I was absolutely lost. He made the move and then I thought to myself
This is toast. I'm done. What can I do? Then it hit me to think just **** it. I'll use this time to learn chess.
And then I spent a ****ing 50 minutes just calculating how the hell could I hope to come up with something that resembled a defense. The calculated tree was maddening. The various attacking vectors he had were all easy victories for him. I then concluded that his best move was to go for one of my rooks and, with a lot of piece exchanges and so on, he would end up with one full rook more than myself. Note that in chess, just being one pawn up is pretty much winning and a rook is worth 4 pawns (sort of).
He was 1900+, he saw it as well. I thought "Bummer, I have nothing against this. Ok. Where should I look now? WTF should I do?"
I remembered to wonder what I would be inclined to do in his place. Hell. My position was wide open. A ****ing mess. I would go for the jugular, to the kingside, open the pawn structure there too and try to get a mate as fast as I could, badass style. So I calculated that one too, had nothing to lose.
And then I saw it. A ****ing hail mary pass twelve moves far ahead, with a ****ing knight move protected by a forgotten bishop, barring the Queen when she would decide to check my then totally opened king. This *could* work, so I calculated it more to be sure. It did appear too ****ing good to be true. If I managed this, I would be with a piece advantage of a whole knight! This was because the sequence required more sacrifices of him. But it was a very sharp sequence that was too badass for him to pass up.
And Lo and Behold, he did just ****ing that! When I moved the knight to protect my King, his head moved backwards. I couldn't believe it! Suddenly, I was on top of the game!
And oh man, I wasn't to let go of this ****. I played my endgame ****ing perfectly and won the match. Unlike all the other players who somewhat discussed the game afterwards, this guy just went away from the board and didn't say a word about it. No wonder!!
