Roscoe's Public Notes

But it’s a win regardless, and I’ll gladly take it, even though I won the game “on the clock” rather than “over the board.”

Since this was a Fischer Random Chess game, it’s interesting to look at the unusual starting position of the major pieces on the board we were assigned.

Our move record follows:

1.d4 e6 2.Qd2 Nc6 3.e4 f6 4.Ne3 Bb4 5.c3 Bd6 6.Nf3 e5 7.O-O-O a6 8.Bc4 Bxc4 9.Nxc4 b5 10.Nxd6 Nxd6 11.dxe5 fxe5 12.Re1 h6 13.g4 Nc4 14.Qd5
White Win

And the very congested middle game that had developed when my opponent playing the Black pieces forfeited this club tournament game to me after my 14th move is shown below.

I had 35 days and 9 hours left on my clock when Black ran out of time yesterday, so I’m credited another win with White. Still, it would have been interesting to play this game out. I wonder how either one of us could navigate through the clutter of pawns, both his and mine, and find our way to a sensible end game. I’ll never know now.