more chess fun
Jan. 4th, 2004 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godreamWe went to an event in Wellesley as a team, Squall and Seifer and Zidane and I, and came in in second place, collectively.
This sounds great 'till you realize there were two teams there. (Shh, don't tell!)
The other guys were from somewhere out on Cape Cod, I can't for my life remember the town name, but yeah, they deserved to win. Mostly. OK, I reeeeeeally should have won my last two games (nothing like losing after being a rook up in the endgame to bring on the guilt) but the second one especially I got trounced, and I can admit it. Ai.
But we came home with a bunch of shiny trophies and great resolve to actually start an L-S chess team, rather than posing as one without anyone's knowledge. The school has a "strategic games club", but I have it from a somewhat reliable source that all they care about is Magic, and occasionally Yugi Oh (or however you spell it). So we shall see. Those of you who are in L-S, if you hear anything about the chess team in the announcements next week, try not to snicker too much and give our utter patheticness away.
Oh! Sturgis. They were from Sturgis. Yeah.
After my losses, my stepdad -- er, I mean our team coach -- told me that the guys on the other team were nervous about playing me. I was highest rated on the team (dumb luck, mostly). I'd done not too badly in the last (and first) tournament I was at, which a bunch of them attended as well so they knew about that, though as y'all know I spent a fair amount of time kicking myself after that event for my dumb mistakes. Anyways. And (drum roll please) evidently the second x chromosome intimidated them. Go figure. First time beauty's been the consolation prize for me... I'm not quite sure what I feel about this.
... I told myself I'd respond to comments before I wrote an entry but I need to go do something I don't lose at now before I type any more, because my ego hurts. Sorry.
This sounds great 'till you realize there were two teams there. (Shh, don't tell!)
The other guys were from somewhere out on Cape Cod, I can't for my life remember the town name, but yeah, they deserved to win. Mostly. OK, I reeeeeeally should have won my last two games (nothing like losing after being a rook up in the endgame to bring on the guilt) but the second one especially I got trounced, and I can admit it. Ai.
But we came home with a bunch of shiny trophies and great resolve to actually start an L-S chess team, rather than posing as one without anyone's knowledge. The school has a "strategic games club", but I have it from a somewhat reliable source that all they care about is Magic, and occasionally Yugi Oh (or however you spell it). So we shall see. Those of you who are in L-S, if you hear anything about the chess team in the announcements next week, try not to snicker too much and give our utter patheticness away.
Oh! Sturgis. They were from Sturgis. Yeah.
After my losses, my stepdad -- er, I mean our team coach -- told me that the guys on the other team were nervous about playing me. I was highest rated on the team (dumb luck, mostly). I'd done not too badly in the last (and first) tournament I was at, which a bunch of them attended as well so they knew about that, though as y'all know I spent a fair amount of time kicking myself after that event for my dumb mistakes. Anyways. And (drum roll please) evidently the second x chromosome intimidated them. Go figure. First time beauty's been the consolation prize for me... I'm not quite sure what I feel about this.
... I told myself I'd respond to comments before I wrote an entry but I need to go do something I don't lose at now before I type any more, because my ego hurts. Sorry.
