FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for November 13, 2023

Roger might send his kids to chess school.

Open with g4 and f3. (Allows Black to checkmate in two moves, the shortest possible game.)

You don’t even need to wait until you’re losing. Tim Krabbe’s web site has some examples of people resigning in winning positions, although presumably because they didn’t know they were winning.

https://timkrDOThomeDOTxs4allDOTnl/chess2/

Replace the DOTs.

We used to do that with my mom. She’d get really angry if she lost any game. So the ‘game within the game’ was to throw the game to her without her suspecting.

Roger likes to win and this is the only way he can.

At least the kids are learning the game properly.

One time a friend and I were playing chess, and he says to me, “so, let’s make this interesting”. So we stopped and went and did something else.