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| Jim Froehlich (left) plays Mario Bartocci |
There are more photos at illinoisclass.com.
Speaking of which, didn't Ruy López de Segura advise his readers to place the chess board in such a way that their opponents would be blinded by the light of sun? Two veteran Illinois tournament players discovered that artificial light works equally well:
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| Giving a new meaning to "reflection": neither player has been identified at the time of this post |
2 comments:
Why the caption, "neither player has been identified"? Was the glare so bad you couldn't recognize yourself, or me?
I didn't notice any glare at the time (and I'm sensitive to glare, so I would have noticed), and I did win that game, so no harm no foul. My opponent, rusty after a year and a half of non-activity, couldn't have faced glare either since he was facing the wall, but could point to his 18-month chess hiatus as a contributing factor to his loss.
I chickened out in the early middlegame, eschewing winning a second pawn in favor of trading queens. I got into some trouble later and had to defend accurately, but my extra pawn eventually carried the day.
:-)
You played very nicely!
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