2022 Fischer Random Club Chess Champion Vince V., giving a chess lesson to an aspiring Grandmaster at our old location.
We will be at the Buffalo Wild Wings in Brighton MI at the Green Oak Shopping Center until they need tables for college basketball slappies.
[Ed. Note: Slappie - noun - A person who is an un-apologetic fan of a team or activity. Sentence: "He plays golf even in a cold rain because he is a golf slappie." Or, "He sure slaps it up for the fill in Team Name here."]
Not positive, but I think the term started because you will see these types of folks 'high fiving' each other every time their team does anything positive. Wolverine football slappies actually pop Dom Perignon champaign corks, after high fiving for every 1st down. Spartan slappies, high five, then add to or change their tobacco chaw every time they see the Sparty mascot. But I digress.
Anyway, us chess slappies (we slap chess clock buttons) will start casual chess night at 4pm and run until 9pm or so. Stop on by!
Now a word about our 2022 Fischer Random Club Chess Champion Vince V. He used what is known in chess circles as the Swiss Gambit to win this tournament. That, and some fine chess playing.
He took a bye in the first round getting him a half point.
What this does, is it USUALLY gets you slightly lower ranked players for the rest of the rounds. You never have to play an undefeated player until the very last round, because you are not undefeated. Then, if you win that last round, you catapult over the top of the undefeated player by that sneaky half point.
It works, unless there is another undefeated player that also won the last round, or you lose the last round.
There wasn't and Vince didn't. Congratulations Vince!
