| Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
 Chess comp! TODAY! I was so nervous and those butterflies in my stomach were killing me! well.. anyway, 1st round.. i was playing Black. I admit that I was very careless and made lotsa mistakes unnecessarily. *sigh* but i did managed to 'check' my opponent a few times, which made me happy enough, though she wasn't quite happy about it. I could feel the tense between me and her. haha.. anyway, in the ending of the game, somehow i managed to lost all of my pieces, which left me with a king and some pawns ONLY! i was ready to resign that moment, but i remembered my friend once told me, bring up the pawns together with the king... i tried that but somewhere in the middle my pawns were stucked or eaten. well, well, i didn't bother much but continued on moving that ''useless'' king (i've got nothing else), and my opponent was trying to promote her pwn. yikes! now then i was nervous.. and the magical moment -- all my pieces were stucked! i couldn't move anything so it was a stalemate. (though later on i was quite unsure of myself. was my last pawn there movable?!) 2nd round.. i got to play White. I tried a new opening which I wasn't really familiar with - Polish opening. I grinned when I saw the face of my opponent. She looked kinda shocked. Well, it's normal, I usually panic when I see different openings. I guess it's a chess-player-thinghy, at least to me. Then i decided to get into fianchetto, and my opponent started to play defencing instead of attaking. (making my life so difficult.....I spent so much time thinking of ways to play it) then somehow in the middle game i could just easily fork his king and queen (yea, baybeh~) :D. i guess she made mistakes somewhere. and from there, i knew that i was winning. But the bad news was that i could 'check' her but not 'checkmate' her. I don't know if it was because that I don't really know how to 'checkmate' ppl, or was it that her position of king and rook and bishop were strong. I guess both though. The time went by. and suddenly - 40 minutes were over!!!!! damn it, man... i could have won the match but i lost becoz of the time! ishhhh...... in a minute, i was so happy admiring my own position; and the other, i turned emotional.. The truth is, i wasn't satisfied with the results. not at all. I kinda regretted saying this to another friend : losing doesn't really counts, it's the heart that matters... It seems that what I said to him is what I should tell myself. *sighzz* now I truly understand how he felt that moment he lost.......... Labels: chess |
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