Hola darlings!
The time has counted down, my 3-game chess match with Shira is nearly here! (Photo right: Shira Evans, taken at Ashkelon, Israel, 2009. Photo left: Jan Newton, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July, 2008)
My training is nearly at an end - I have one last game going on - with my coach, Chessdaddy a/k/a Kelly Atkins. I made a really STUPID move two moves ago to grab a piece - ACH! I should have known it looked too easy. It wasn't a poisoned pawn - it was a poisoned Bishop. ACH!
But I still have hopes of coming out ahead material-wise when the slaughter of exchanging pieces is done because, in the final analysis (NO guarantee my final analysis is correct, mind you), I have a Knightess placed just where she can grab a pawn once the slaughter is done. Since Chessdaddy does NOT read this blog, I feel fairly confident in sharing this interim strategy with you :)
Tomorrow (Friday) I'm taking a day off from chess (except for my final training game - wth Chessdaddy).
Here are the particulars about the SHIRA CHESS CHALLENGE FOR CHARITY MATCH:
DATES: September 5, 6 and 7, 2009
TIME: 10:00 a.m. Central Standard Time (Wisconsin time, USA)
PLACE:
http://www.chess.com/
HANDLES: Jan Newton of Goddesschess plays as
JanXena and Shira Evans of
Computerlabs for Kids Foundation plays as
shirae.
Shira and I will be playing one game each day, starting at 10:00 a.m. CST, over the Labor Day weekend. Each of us will have one hour on our clocks, no increment.
Membership at chess.com is free. I honestly have no idea how this works - my guess is that if you are not already a member at chess.com you will have to sign up if you want to watch our games, and then you search under one or the other of our "handles" -
JanXena or
shirae, to find our games.
I hope you will check in and watch some part of one or more of our games! I've been practicing, darlings, training really hard! Well, okay, I haven't won a game yet in my online training games but I DID win that game against Mr. Don when we were coming back from Las Vegas last week :)
Cheer on your favorite - the unrated undergoddess or the Chess Goddess with peak USCF rating of 1727 (EEK!) And, if you should be so inclined, please make a contribution to Shira's
Foundation and help the kids that she helps.
Thanks once again to
Laura and Dan Sherman of Your Chess Coach for their help in my training. Wish I could have you sitting as little angels on my shoulders while I'm playing against Shira :)
Hola darlings!
The time has counted down, my 3-game chess match with Shira is nearly here! (Photo right: Shira Evans, taken at Ashkelon, Israel, 2009. Photo left: Jan Newton, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July, 2008)
My training is nearly at an end - I have one last game going on - with my coach, Chessdaddy a/k/a Kelly Atkins. I made a really STUPID move two moves ago to grab a piece - ACH! I should have known it looked too easy. It wasn't a poisoned pawn - it was a poisoned Bishop. ACH!
But I still have hopes of coming out ahead material-wise when the slaughter of exchanging pieces is done because, in the final analysis (NO guarantee my final analysis is correct, mind you), I have a Knightess placed just where she can grab a pawn once the slaughter is done. Since Chessdaddy does NOT read this blog, I feel fairly confident in sharing this interim strategy with you :)
Tomorrow (Friday) I'm taking a day off from chess (except for my final training game - wth Chessdaddy).
Here are the particulars about the SHIRA CHESS CHALLENGE FOR CHARITY MATCH:
DATES: September 5, 6 and 7, 2009
TIME: 10:00 a.m. Central Standard Time (Wisconsin time, USA)
PLACE: http://www.chess.com/
HANDLES: Jan Newton of Goddesschess plays as JanXena and Shira Evans of Computerlabs for Kids Foundation plays as shirae.
Shira and I will be playing one game each day, starting at 10:00 a.m. CST, over the Labor Day weekend. Each of us will have one hour on our clocks, no increment.
Membership at chess.com is free. I honestly have no idea how this works - my guess is that if you are not already a member at chess.com you will have to sign up if you want to watch our games, and then you search under one or the other of our "handles" - JanXena or shirae, to find our games.
I hope you will check in and watch some part of one or more of our games! I've been practicing, darlings, training really hard! Well, okay, I haven't won a game yet in my online training games but I DID win that game against Mr. Don when we were coming back from Las Vegas last week :)
Cheer on your favorite - the unrated undergoddess or the Chess Goddess with peak USCF rating of 1727 (EEK!) And, if you should be so inclined, please make a contribution to Shira's Foundation and help the kids that she helps.
Thanks once again to Laura and Dan Sherman of Your Chess Coach for their help in my training. Wish I could have you sitting as little angels on my shoulders while I'm playing against Shira :)
We'll be watching and rooting for you! I'll also tweet about the match to other chess players on Twitter.
ReplyDeleteGOOD LUCK!!!
Laura and Dan,
ReplyDeleteYou are the best! Thanks again for your help. Knowing you'll be watching parts of the games will make me sit up taller and concentrate better - like taking a final exam :)
I hope I make you and Chessdaddy proud (relatively speaking, of course - a few brilliant moves is all I ask... and a couple of draws???)