Queenside Quelling

This is my last game played on Chess with Friends. The app was once easy to use, and has a wide user base. It is now heavily laden with advertisements unless you pay to have them lessened. It was not an easy game as my American opponent C.B. was strong and stubbornly relentless.

It was interesting to me that both sides played to a theme of an influential dark bishop, and how that theme influenced decisions at vital points of the game. The concentration of firepower on just one side of the board, the queenside, was pretty noteworthily rare too. And the main highlight should have been the relatively complex looking middle game. That was the reason that motivated me to post this game at that point in time, regardless of the outcome. In the end, the unusual endgame position saved me from a long drawn attrition. And the fruit of the struggle was a game that has quite a few interesting points to think about.

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Venus Visible

It was a cold morning, perhaps deservingly so as I have lent Sophie my jacket for the night. I looked to the east when everyone else was asleep and I saw a remarkably bright object in the distant world. What a dangerous and mesmerising thing that ushers in a new beautiful beginning.