Winding down for the night
I am laying in bed relaxing after a good evening. I had a happy hour with a few of my fiance's co-workers, followed by playing two final chess games with one of my friend's daughters. She's preparing for a big scholastic tournament in Florida this coming weekend.
I played an inferior opening in the Caro-Kann on purpose, in order to help her capitalize on the poor fourth move. She played it pretty well and did manage to keep me on the edge for the first 2/3 of the game. If she plays like this this weekend, she should do well.
Here's the beginning for anyone who is interested:
1. e4 c6
2. d4 d5
3. exd5 cxd5
4. Nc3
In the second game, I played Black in the French Defense, to give her some practice against that opening, which is likely to be played by a few of the scholastic players. This is not my opening of choice as Black, but it is a solid one. She managed to beat me in that.
At home, I opened two early Christmas gifts from my mother-in-law. I was ecstatic when one gift was a Jerry Garcia tie, and the other was a tie-dye Grateful Dead shirt. I called her up and told her that these were awesome presents! She knew I loved the Grateful Dead, but this year I really started to embrace that part of myself again!
I played an inferior opening in the Caro-Kann on purpose, in order to help her capitalize on the poor fourth move. She played it pretty well and did manage to keep me on the edge for the first 2/3 of the game. If she plays like this this weekend, she should do well.
Here's the beginning for anyone who is interested:
1. e4 c6
2. d4 d5
3. exd5 cxd5
4. Nc3
In the second game, I played Black in the French Defense, to give her some practice against that opening, which is likely to be played by a few of the scholastic players. This is not my opening of choice as Black, but it is a solid one. She managed to beat me in that.
At home, I opened two early Christmas gifts from my mother-in-law. I was ecstatic when one gift was a Jerry Garcia tie, and the other was a tie-dye Grateful Dead shirt. I called her up and told her that these were awesome presents! She knew I loved the Grateful Dead, but this year I really started to embrace that part of myself again!