This weekend Sanne was visiting us. For those who don’t know, Sanne and Marion are already since they went to school very close friends. And nowadays I am happy that I can also call her a very good friend of mine. Sanne and I share a passion together: Chess. Now several years ago Sanne asked…
Tag: Chess
The Chessman II
Yesterday evening I had to pick something from one of the closets in my bedroom. A box on the bottom of the closet suddenly grapped my attention… Smiling I realized it was my old chess computer, the Chessman II. Good memories about that computer. I bought that computer in 1986, the same year it was…
A Game of Thrones… errrr…. Chess.
As I already have told before, I really love the chess game. I believe I also told here before that I have played chess for several years on competition level. For the last time I am playing chess with Sanne (a common friend of Marion and me). Sending each move by mail, text-message or Skype….
Life is there… to play chess
During Easter is Sanne, a very good friend of Marion and me, staying at my place. Sanne is always a welcome quest. She is fun to have around, good to talk with and always helpful. Already some time ago when Sanne was also here at my place, she noticed my old chess board standing beside…
Checkmate
Congratulations, Sanne! This was an awesome game of chess. More checkmate then this you could not get me :-). I really enjoyed this game. It was a balanced and challenging game. Until the very end it was not clear who was on the winning hand. And I think we both gave each other some very…
A game of Chess…
Yesterday, after the walk Sanne and I made on the beach of Zandvoort, back at my home, we chatted a bit. Poor Marion… she is of course often the subject of these conversations *winks*. For those that don’t know it, Marion and Sanne are long time friends. They know each from the time that they…