Creepy Crawly

Last week I played a game with a higher rated player on GameKnot. It was one of the strangest opening I have faced with so far, because my American opponent used the creepy crawly approach. I was expecting a very forth coming kinda play, out of respect for his rating. Only a few steps into the game, I was feeling a little irritated and frustrated. I was getting the feeling that my opponent is still observing me, and feeling me out without asserting himself at all. This situation reminded me of wusses who like to sit back and observe people or things, and then assert/make a superior stand later, assuming an a-rung-higher kinda position. By the middle game, the creepy crawly frontline was pushing tightly forward, and ensued a fierce struggle in the middle of the board by move 19. The twist of how my knight escapes his death to come around to help checkmate in the last stage of the battle was baffling. Perhaps black did not want to get into a pin complication. Besides feeling lucky, I thought it was a nice sequence of slow one-square steps by the powerful queen, before she stabbed the black King back against the wall.

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