White (Will) Black (Jon)
1. d2-d4 d7-d5 Queens Opening / Queens Pawn Game
2. c2-c4 g8-f6 Queens Gambit Declines / Marshall Defense
3. e2-e3 b8-c6
4. g1-f3 e7-e5
5. f3Xe5 c6-b4
6. Qa4+ c7-c6 Bad move by Black. Better move is b4-c6.
7. c4-c5 a7-a5 Here's where I thought I was trouble.
8. a2-a3 b4-a6
9. f1Xa6 a8Xa6
10. o-o f6-e5 White probably castled too early here.
11. f2-f3 f7-f6 Knight gambit.
12. f3Xe4 f6Xe5 Knight gambit accepted by Wh. Bad move by Bl.
13. e4Xd5 QXd5
14. b1-c3 Qe6
15. d4-d5 b7-b5 This was pretty stupid by Bl.
16. c5Xb6 Qd6 Wh gets pawn en passant.
17. f1-d1 c8-g4 Horrible move by Bl at first. Left bishop open.
18. QXg4 a6Xb6 Wh Q takes bishop. Probably shouldn't have done it.
19. Q-e6+ e8-d8 Queen's gambit declined by Wh.
20. e3-e4 d6-c5+
21. g1-f1 f8-e7 Bl opens up bishop to try and check Wh King w/ rook.
22. Qf7 h8-f8 Hell of a good move here. Bl pins Wh's Queen.
23. QXf8+ e7Xf8 Bl sacrifice rook to get Wh Queen. Bl's back in.
24. c3-a4 c5-c4+ Wh now calls this move a mistake. It was.
25. f1-e1 c4Xe4+
26. e1-f1 d4Xa4
27. c1-e3 a4-c4+
28. f1-g1 b6Xb2 Good move by Bl here.
29. d5Xc6+ d8-d7
30. a1-c1 b2-c2 Rook gambit declined by white. Should've taken it.
31. g2-g3 c4-e2 Bl has mate in 1 move, doesn't see it. Stupid.
32. d1-d2 QXe3+
33. g1-f1 c2Xc1+
34. f1-g2 Qxd2+
35. g2-h3 f8-e7
36. h3-g4 d2-g5+
37. g4-f3 c1-e1 Bad move here. In endgame, keep King in check
38. f3-f2 g5-e3+
39. f2-g2 e1-g1+
40. g2-h3 g1Xg3++ Wh captures Bl King, wins match.
After multiple losses and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory a couple times, I finally beat Will at chess. And it's even sweeter because this time it really, really counted. After I got down a pawn and a bishop, I thought the game was over. But somehow I got Will to trade a rook for his queen and I was back in play. In chess, you can feel the balance of power swing as you go up or down a piece - even if it's a lowly pawn. It's a good exercise, and one that enjoy so much I can't really make any jokes about it. Though I have legally changed my name to Chessmaster 2003 Suh.
Man, if you guys could only see Will right now. He's trying hard to hide how disappointed he is that he lost. I think he thought this would be a gimme for him, but he's gone to bed early with his tail between his legs. It might take him a while to put this crushing devastation behind him. My guess is that he won't return to DC because he needs to spend a couple years sitting underneath a waterfall and punching a wooden board. Kinda like what Steven Seagal did in 'Hard to Kill.' Do I feel bad for Will? Heck no. He owes me like 15 bucks.
I gotta note that the reason why the Javad Skillz meter is so high is because I'm not as good at chess as Will, I had to come from behind to win, and I was faced with the pressure of losing in front of a worldwide audience. So I needed to pull out an extra dose of my Javad Skillz.
Jon: "Is it wrong to think that The Very Best of Cher CD might not be so bad? If so, someone better tell Cosentino. He likes to 'Believe' he's 'Strong Enough' to 'Turn Back Time' so he can sing a 'Song for the Lonely.' I can't believe I just spent 5 minutes on that."
Will: "And Alexander wept for there were no more worlds to conquer."