Well this is bittersweet. You're in check, but it came at a price.
Check has always struck me as something of a hollow victory. Multiple checks don't add up to a single 'checkmate', and the player in check suffers no material loss. Is this what my bishop fought and died for?
A real bishop, Richard Bell, died a non chess-related death in 1496, leaving behind something of a mystery.
Did the artist model his engravings on real dinosaurs he'd actually seen, or is paleontology several hundred years older than we thought, or maybe these aren't sauropods?
![](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/http://dl0.creation.com/articles/p063/c06303/Carlisle-Cathedral.jpg)
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Blocktrades is really pulling ahead on the leaderboard now. He's a quality opponent and something of an enigma, but I do miss brendio's sheep
![](https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/https://i.imgur.com/a8N6riq.jpg)
Just look at that bishop, standing alone, proud and defiant. Before this happened....
![](https://steemitimages.com/0x0/http://imgur.com/Gfv76C5.gif)
My regular, grown up, videographer will be back tomorrow.
Today's gif looks like it was shot by a 10 year old, so I'm very proud of my 6 year old :)
I'm posting 2 hours early today, as my Dad and I are taking my boys to a special event at a waterslide park, from 11 til 3.
There's only one move posted, and it has quite a lot of support, so I'm locking it in.
Backstory here
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love the chess set :) and your videographer has a promising career.
Thanks, countrygirl. He recently worked out the truth about this time of year, which gutted his mum.
I'm pretty sure you're supposed to get more than 6 innocent Christmases, but he's too clever for his own good.
booo.....different world than when I was a kid....I think I got maybe 9 years? I was so gullible though.....I think my kids were about 7 or 8 when they figured things out too.
The sheep are at my sister-in-law's place. The kids had the board set up while I was there browsing Steem while my wife talked. So, I hurriedly set it up to post a move. Look closing and you'll see the black and white squares (and hence the king and queen's positions) are inverted from your board.
I still have at least another chess set to use yet if I'm quick enough to post a good move before others beat me to it. (I was 11 minutes too slow yesterday; Way off today.)
That's funny because I initially set the board up with King/Queen inverted, and almost posted it.
I just doublechecked before posting, at work, on a whim several hours later, and had to reshoot my first gif the next day.
Timing is hard because I don't want my life to revolve around posting at an exact time, which is why I gave myself a one hour window initially.
Today I went two hours early, which I wouldn't normally do.
Three factors influenced my decision.
A: It would have totally thrown out the plans of several other people for me to be in front of a PC between 12 and 1.
B: Blocktrades was overwhelmingly the favourite, with no other competitors.
C: You guys only had one move available, which made the whole thing kind of redundant.
I hate breaking my own rules, because I think something like this can only work if the players have some certainty, but I think in this case, I broke the letter of the law, but not the spirit.
Happily lots of upvotes though, so you're a forgiving bunch :)
I'm not too worried about the timing. I don't like to be tied to a computer and I'm sure others around me don't like me to either.
Next move is up.
E8 D7
Next move is posted.