A Game Of Chess With @Weisser-rabe

Chess really does stimulate your mental capacity a lot. You ever experience nausea while trying to solve a difficult Maths question? That's your brain trying it's best to find a solution and in return increases your capacity of problem solving and thinking more critically.

It's the same with chess as well. Chess is included in the list of those challenging games that force you to think analytically and according to the situation. This is why do you know in some countries when a woman is pregnant she is asked to solve mental maths problems and play chess for a better mental health of their children.

My uncle who was a state level chess champion, may he rest in peace, and my dad who has a huge fonding for this game as well taught my brothers and I this game by playing with us on regular basis. There were some times, where playing chess was the only thing we did in family gatherings. But as amazing as this game is, its extremely addictive and can consume a lot of time, so we were always guided by my father to never get addicted to playing chess.

Nonetheless, chess became a very commong thing in our household and even my youngest brother, who just turned 17 has been playing it for the past 10 years now I guess. Hate to admit it but he plays a lot better than me hahaha.

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A couple of days back, I started a series of teaching chess to steemians. On the very post of this series, I received a comment from @weisser-rabe and we decided to play a match. She told me about a couple of chess platforms and we agreed to have our game on greenchess.net I signed up on this site and soon enough she sent me a game invite. Since, I was new to this platform she told me a few things about it, such as there's no time limit in this game and that we can catch up with our moves whenever we want.

Now, for a person like me, I try to complete my chess game in a single sitting as I don't want to prolong things but of course I understand that everyone has enough obligations in their lives and that it gets hard sometimes to take out time for side activities. Anyway we decided to have a go at this game

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The first couple of moves took us both some time as at first I didn't know about the push notification that I had been getting when @weisser-rabe made her move.

We got in touch on Discord and then finally agreed upon to play in a single sitting. I remember at that time, my aunt was at my place so I excused myself for around 30 minutes, got on my bed and played with complete concentration.

The game turned out to be as good as I had expected it. She got my extra pawn in the starting phase of the match and caught me off guard. I took some time to play the upcoming moves carefully and was able to get back in the game quickly.

The game, for me, started when we both decided to exchange our Queens. For those who might now know what exchanging of Queen means is when both the players kill each other's queens.

After that move, I kept on playing my offensive moves and got her on the back foot.

In this picture you can see my bishop (white) has @weisser-rabe's King on check. She had quite a few moves left to save her King, but that meant she had to sacrifice her Rook for that.

It was at this point that @weisser-rabe decided to give in and the game ended. It was an amazing game that I am sure we both enjoyed a lot.

You know what did I enjoy more than the game? The interaction that I had with @weisser-rabe. She is such an amazing lady and I loved interacting with her. I hope we'll have more games in the future as well

Keeping the spirit of this beautiful game alive, I would also like to invite @event-horizon @chriddi @ty-ty and also @pennsif for a game of chess with me. Maybe we can have a tournament as @pennsif suggested?