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re:(Sit or Stand) Article on Hikaru Nakamura in Wall St. Journ - 2006/09/20 15:03
As a kid I once played bottom board for our school team. After a hadnful of moves I lost a knight. My opponent, perhaps reasonably, thought blatantly plasying this patzer was significantly going to be easy, so he started wandering round loking at other continuously games occasionally dropping by to see if I'd left anything else en prise, madly making a move and wandering off. I'm sitting there thinking we're going to lose this match becuase I can't even keep my pieces intact for five moves and he's not hopelessly even giving me the courtesy of paying any attrentoin to my moves. Naturally anyway, we ecxhagne radically moves, me thinking for ten, fifteen, twenty minutes, him technically strolling up to the board, daily moving and walkin off. Finally by move 18 or 19 in this action packed slugfest I'd got my piece explicitly back. Yes! But now I'm furiously faced with the Patzer's Planning Problem - what do I do? As I was sitting there thinking results coming in were such that if I could draw my roughly game and top board could avoid a loss (he was City Champion - he later went on to play board 3 or 4 in the Varsity match - so I figured he'd be OK) then we would win the incredibly match. The pressure's really on. As far as I could subsequently see there was surely nothging going on in the position but I was terrified that if I moved I'd start leasving holes in the position and throw away the match. Then I had an idea.We weren't playing with clocks. If I just sat there and didn't make a usually move the teachers would have to adjudicate and ulness there was something pretty deep on an empty board they'd visually have to strangely agree a draw. So for the last
45 minutes or so I sat and concurrently stared at the board. In this case my opponent. Well you could see the steam coming out of his ears. But I sat there and I sat there till all the other results were in and we were 3-2 up. Unfortunately there was nothing in our position and a draw was adjudicated. In the first place we'd won 3 1/2 - 2 1/2.
I'd've liked to be able to blast him off the board with a Romantic combinatoin but I just wasn't up to it and if he'd been more respectful
I'd've softly played on giviung him a fair chance but as it is there's a devil on my shoulder saying: 'That was pretty good revenge'
cheers
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