I don't remember if I mentioned it before, but monvieux and I have been playing chess against each other on and off for the better part of forty years. Today I serendipitously came across a photograph of us squaring off against each other across a chessboard when we were about 28, roughly half our lives ago. Strangely enough, though I've been writing blogs of one description or another for over 5 years, I've never included an image in a blog post. After seeing the squaring off picture today, however, I feel compelled to include one at long last. Bear with me! Let's see if I can get the pixels to do my bidding :-)
That's me on the left, and monvieux on the right. We're both trying not to laugh, and I think I'm succeeding slightly better. Apparently we're about to play a game with 15 minutes on each of our clocks, which is a monstrous length. As I recall, our typical blitz game was 5 minutes a side. This photograph brings back many happy memories, and makes me very glad that monvieux and I are still great friends after all these years.
neostreet: 1240 (142-138-15 (295))
monvieux: 1334 (342-281-15 (638))
No comments:
Post a Comment