FRÅN MIN BLOGGSIDA PÅ CHESS.COM
or ”How I Learned to Love Bb5”
Our small group was called ”The Hawaii Chess Club”. We all had our moments when we played inspired chess… preferably drinking various sorts of alcoholic beverages while playing, it was in fact mandatory. We celebrated Bb5 and we built all the tactics around this move. We bent traditional square chess out of its dimensions, and when challenged by outsiders.. we normally lost big. However, in our annual tournament on Innocent Children’s Day, we could at least beat eachother. I am still the undisputed and undefeated champ and holder of the world’s ugliest trophy (thank you Arne) since the tournaments stopped after my very strategic move here… In lack of chess players in restaurants I started playing snooker, which somewhat actually involves thinking like in chess. I now wonder how snooker can be implemented in chess…