Jousting with John
I'm writing in the small hours of Friday morning after losing a London League game yesterday evening to John Cox, a lawyer in his mid-fifties rated in the 2300s who also plays a mean game of bridge.
My team Wood Green had already won the league for the nth time in a row before last night's match against Cavendish and despite this loss, we beat them by a large margin. John and I had a very pleasant post-mortem in the pub afterwards and I'm very far from dolorous (so perhaps there's rather an absence of agony or ecstasy surrounding the game). But it was a very interesting battle and after looking at it he also very kindly showed me his most agonising ever loss with which we start:
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1...Rb3?? 2.Ke4 2.Ke4 Kf6 3.Kd4 Kf5 4.Kc4 Rxb2 5.Rxb2 Ke4 6.Re2 2.Ke4 Kf6 3.Kd4 Kf5 4.Kc4 Rxb2 4...Ke4 5.Kxb3 Kf3 6.Rxe3+ Kxe3 7.Kxb4 5.Rxb2 Ke4 6.Re2 g5 7.Rb2 g4 8.Re2 h5 9.Rb2 b3 10.Re2 Kf3 11.Kd3 1–0 - Start an analysis engine:
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| A junior | - | Cox,J | - | 1–0 | 2018 | | | |
| Cox,J | - | Speelman,J | - | 1–0 | 2018 | A00 | London League | 8 |
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