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Posted by jstevens1
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3/01/2008
12:38:09

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Subject: Cornered!!

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I have just finished only my twelfth game as a new member of the Sneaky Knights Connection. What a game! The trapped (my king and lsb) became the trappers. This game is against a player called gabriel who had a seemingly strong attack as white. Thankfully my attritional defence held through and my opponent overreached himself. This game was almost as nailbiting as the one against yakky in "In Old Matey's Shadow Part 2". In this game I could feel Old Matey breating down my neck for a few moves and it was not very pleasant. But I kept him at bay and won my twelfth game, and I now have 7 points from my 12 games!

Hope you are having a nice weekend.

Bye for now.

Joanne


Posted by ketchuplover
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3/01/2008
13:30:45

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You won with only a king and lsb? Very impressive :)

Posted by lighttotheright
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3/01/2008
20:18:08

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Good job! Nice.

Posted by chessnovice
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3/01/2008
21:54:37

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ketchuplover

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She had two bishops and a rook in the game. The lsb was pinned to the king for most of the game, but ultimately they were used to trap the rook that had been pinning it.

Good fortune.





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