I got addicted to chess again recently. I even started downloading a chess software yesterday. This is seriously a very bad time, since i’m having 3 tests next week.Just reminds me of my form 6 days when i studied chess more than academic stuff, no wonder i didn’t score in STPM =P

It started few days ago when i browse thorugh the 2008 world chess championship games betwen anand and kramnik. After that the addiction started again.

Few minutes ago i even played chess on yahoo just to relax from the hecktic studies. I played 2 games with another fellow. I used black. It’s a timed game of 10mins. My opponent used king’s pawn opening for both games which i happily responded with the sicilian defence. Sicilian defence is my favourite responce in such situation.

I wanted to use the sicilian dragon but he built up an aggressive attack on my kingside using his queen and bishop. So i have to abandoned my plan and fight back by blocking the center. Chess players would know this means i’ll have a weak kingside bishop helmed in by my own pawns. I made a mistake and nearly lost my first game, but i was able to fight back and time pressure him, eventually winning the game.

The second game’s opening is quite similar, but i developed my queen to the kingside to mount an attack early in the game. I believe this is one of my best open tactical games i’ve ever played. I actually hated open games, always using my knowledge on pawn structures and speed to defeat opponents in timed close games.Therefore, tactical open games isn’t my strongest field.

Hopefully that software can be downloaded within this week so i can play after my tests (you know, torrent files are stupidly slow to download). Of course i hope i don’t flunk my test also =P