In preparation for the Chess/Baseball-themed radio show that I am doing tomorrow, I was browsing through my old user account on Chess World. As soon as I have some free time, I’m going to go back and open up a new account. Unfortunately, I had been assigned to some tournament games that I never finished. (The ‘timed-out losses’ that resulted wreak havoc with one’s ratings.) Below is the annotation from one of my favorite games from an online tourney that I played a while ago. My opponent (a VERY talented guy from the U.K.) and I had played each other several times before and he beat me after 27 moves, 33 moves, and finally here in 43 moves. To those of you that don’t play Chess, this is a meaningless bunch of gibberish. Those that do play Chess can see that I clearly showed moments of both brilliance and idiocy. I just emailed this guy and hope to have a rematch. Maybe this time I'll make it to 50 moves before he nails me.

1.  d4 d5
2.  c4 Nf6
3.  Nf3 Bf5
4.  Nc3 e6
5.  e3 Be7
6.  b3 Nd7
7.  Rb1 Bxb1
8.  Nxb1 O-O
9.  g3 c6
10. Nc3 a5
11. Bh3 Bb4
12. Bd2 Ne4
13. Qc2 Qf6
14. Nh4 Qxf2
15. Kd1 dxc4
16. Be1 Qxe3
17. Bd2 Nf2
18. Kc1 Nd3
19. Qxd3 Qxd3
20. Bf1 Ba3
21. Kd1 Qxd4
22. Nf3 Qf2
23. Be2 Qg2
24. Rg1 Qh3
25. Bf1 Qf5
26. Nh4 Qh5
27. Ne2 Bc5
28. Bg2 Bxg1
29. Bf3 Qe5
30. Nf4 Qa1
31. Bc1 Be3
32. Ne2 Rd8
33. bxc4 Ne5
34. Ke1 Nd3
35. Kf1 Bxc1
36. Nxc1 Qxc1
37. Kg2 Ne1
38. Kf2 Rd2
39. Be2 Nd3
40. Ke3 Rd1
41. Ke4 Nf2
42. Ke5 Qg5
43. Nf5 Qxf5