5:04 p.m., Friday the 10th
My performance at Chess yesterday was awful, just awful. Deplorable. Sickening. Humiliating. As I have been known to do in the past, I overlooked some critical, obvious threats and opportunities. I played my next bot game, and performed poorly in it, but I managed to salvage a draw. By fifty moves with no pawn movement, and no captures. At that point, I just had my king, and my opponent had his king and a rook. I'm lucky the bots play so badly in the endgame, otherwise I'd have been forced into checkmate.
For me a draw means I will neither advance nor regress in my next game, instead I will play the same bot again as the same color (I'll play as White). Today it is highly unlikely that I will get caught up on things, so, no bot game. And I'm glad about that. I'm still licking my wounds from yesterday.
Shopping went pretty well, at least it provided a distraction. This is all I have to tell you.
My performance at Chess yesterday was awful, just awful. Deplorable. Sickening. Humiliating. As I have been known to do in the past, I overlooked some critical, obvious threats and opportunities. I played my next bot game, and performed poorly in it, but I managed to salvage a draw. By fifty moves with no pawn movement, and no captures. At that point, I just had my king, and my opponent had his king and a rook. I'm lucky the bots play so badly in the endgame, otherwise I'd have been forced into checkmate.
For me a draw means I will neither advance nor regress in my next game, instead I will play the same bot again as the same color (I'll play as White). Today it is highly unlikely that I will get caught up on things, so, no bot game. And I'm glad about that. I'm still licking my wounds from yesterday.
Shopping went pretty well, at least it provided a distraction. This is all I have to tell you.