| "...And finally, as for my game
with Ervon (yes, he's nice, too), ... On Black's move
15...Bh4 check, I should simply have moved my King to f2
right then. I wasn't worried about being invaded by
Black's pieces because the King would have been on a
white square, of course, and Black's white-squared
Bishop was gone from the board. And his Queen was kind
of bottled in. Besides, the Master - that's you -
doesn't castle all that early himself. So my 16 g3??
move was the "nitwit" move for the night. I'm not sure
that move 34 e4 was all that hot, either. If I had just
laid low with my King for a move or two, I think I would
have been better off. I knew a little later on that
Black had not realized that, unlike him, I would Queen
with check. I stopped recording moves after that,
because he was in a time crunch and I wanted to keep it
that way. "Wooden" Nichols could have won
rather easily if he had played correctly, but he didn't
and I had gobbled up a couple of his pawns
before HE offered a draw with 7 1/2 minutes
on his clock to 10 1/2 for me." George "Cashman" Cashell |