Revenge of the Sith
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Kitt Fisto?
He was a promising young squid thingy Jedi who was savagely run through by the Dark Lord of the Sith without uttering a single line of dialogue in the prequel trilogy.
Observe:
Kitt Gets Hammered.
That's kind of how the chess rematch between Jemanji and I went. Since SSI lacks Yoda, Anakin and Mace Windu types, it fell on me to serve the arrest warrant on the kindly old SSI Emperor.
Here's how that turned out:
Mojo v. Doc game 1 7/28/2017
In this game, I was planning on castling queenside and launching a pawnstorm and everything else I had at the white king. I lost my queen on move 8, by reactively placing it on F7. G6 would have been much better, as I would have been where I wanted to be, and could have shooshed his bishop off with a pawn or something. Doc took with his light square bishop, and then there was no recovery after that. I made it to twenty nine without mounting a threat of any kind. Here's the finishing blow:
Mojo v. Doc Game 1 7/28/2017 The finishing blow. Its either my King or My Castle.
Game 2, I played my standard King's Indian and fared much better. Here was my high point.
Mojo v. Doc Game 2, 7/28/2017
I had poached a pawn, and I had two knights in the most annoying possible spot. This image shows the skill gap between someone of Doc's caliber and someone of mine. I go to great lengths to keep knights off my side of the board, because they are too much to think about. Doc can see I want a knight on E-6 to threaten his castle and king, so he puts three defenders on the position with a fourth in arms reach.
The game, and my short reign as SSI chess champ, ended when I blundered a castle on move 27. After this, all of my pieces were systematically deleted until on move 39, I had nothing left, and Doc had a queen and two passed pawns that were going to become queens.
In game 3, I accomplished my dream of castling queenside, and launching a full scale invasion of Korraban.
Here's how that went:
Mojo v. Doc Game 3 7/28/2017.
The invasion looks, well, kind of soft. I wanted to bring the pain but only had a few X-Wings. My armada of pawns was all chewed up from Rathtar hunting. I managed to put Doc in check twice and threaten him a little bit, but was undone by my absentee pawn on C-3 and negligently leaving my King on the back row without enough defense. I also played incorrectly. After the check on H4, forcing his king to G, I should have moved my castly back to where it was, and then advanced my pawn to break up his pawn chain.
Ah well. Coulda Woulda Shoulda gg.
Order is restored to the galaxy. Much respect to Doc for putting his Elo on the line to play a scrub like me.
-Mojo