I played like a grand master

The final position of my game, with the mind-boggling assessment from the chess.com analysis. The chessup board isn’t able to sync games on chess.com yet, but Lichess.com is a perfectly decent chess platform too. Here’s Eric Rosen playing a game on a chessup board: https://youtu.be/k33aNri2cBQ

Vera Menchik

Vera Menchik, 1906 -1944 first Women’s World Chess Champion, 1927

This is Vera aged 16 in 1922, one year before she joined the Hastings Chess Club. Vera had come from Russia the year before, to live in St Leonard’s on Sea with her mother and sister. Vera could not speak English at the time, and so threw herself into playing chess.

Insomnia

Looks like this… it’s the opening moves for the London for white and King’s Indian for black

Also, a crazy horse because why not…

Chess!

The original notation was slighty messy

Yes, I went out and picked up that set after typing the pages for this post. How can you resist the sight of these knights?!