THROW BACK THURSDAY. The year was 2002 its the Zambia Closed Chess Championship 2002 at Virtuous restaurant in Kitwe, Zambia. I was 15 or 16 years old by then coming from Kabulonga Boys High School grade 12 playing as white against Gershom Musende(Who was a very strong player and one of the favorites, despite losing this game in this position, he eventually went on to win the championship). It was an eleven round championship and this was in round seven on board one, I had a score of 5 and half out of six games, and yes! I was the tournament leader. After long play out of Sicilian opening and middle game we reached the endgame this position and by the way all the games had finished this was the last game around 20:30 in the night, we had a huge crowd surrounding us who wanted to get a glimpse of the game!!(critical game I should say) . With perfect play the position should be drawn!! Its white to play. The game went as follows......1.Kd3 Kc5 2.Kc3 Kc6 3.Kd4 Kb6 4.Kd3 Kc7 5.Kd4 Kc6......from here I looked at the position critically there was one trick and psychology(I was the underdog or rookie) I could put to a test, we both had under 3minutes on our clocks thought for about one minute then I came up with a brilliant trick, the game continued I played 6.Kc3 I could hear some negative comments murmuring,jeering e.t.c from the crowd about the move I had just played and some faces in the crowd looked with disgust at the move, but I had everything under control.My opponent without thinking much further played 6...... Kc5 I immediately played 7.Kd3 then with lightening speed he played 7.........Kb4??.He looked at me and I looked at him with a smile on my face like gotta yah then I immediately played THE move that was the HALLMARK of the whole operation 8.Kd4!!! Then my opponent shouted XXXX! I couldnt contain myself that was one of the few moments I have laughed at my opponent!! Then there was clapping from the crowd and cheering !!! The game went on 8.......Kxa4 then Kc3!! A further 7-10 moves he resigned!! Memories heh??
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 07:51:58 +0000
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