Chapter 6: Drasius vs Tarrasch

[White “Drasius”]
[Black “Tarrasch”]
[Result “1-0”]

1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 e5 3.d3 Nc6 4.c3 Nf6 5.Qc2 e4 6.e3 Bd6 7.d4 Be6 8.Nd2 a5 9.a3 a4 10.b4 O-O 11.Ne2 Ng4 12.h3 Qh4 13.g3 Nxe3 14.fxe3
Bxg3+ 15.Kd1 Bf2 16.Kc1 Bxe3 17.Kb1 Rad8 18.Bc1 Ne7 19.Ka2 Qg5 20.h4 Qh6 21.Ng3 f5 22.Bb5 f4 23.Ngf1 Bg4 24.Bxa4 Nf5 25.Bb3 Kh8
26.Nxe3 Nxe3 27.Qb2 Qa6 28.Re1 Qd3 29.Nb1 Rde8 30.Qd2 Qxd2+ 31.Nxd2 c6 32.c4 dxc4 33.Nxc4 Nxc4 34.Bxc4 e3 35.d5 e2 36.dxc6 bxc6
37.Bd2 Be6 38.Bxe6 Rxe6 39.Bc3 Re4 40.Rg1 Rf7 41.Be1 f3 42.Bf2 c5 43.Rgc1 Rc7 44.Kb3 Kg8 45.Rxc5 Rxc5 46.bxc5 Kf7 47.a4 Re6
48.a5 Ra6 49.Ra3 g5 50.hxg5 Kg6 51.Kc4 Kxg5 52.Rxf3 Rxa5 53.Rg3+ Kf5 54.Re3 Ra4+ 55.Kd3 Ra3+ 56.Kxe2 Rxe3+ 57.Kxe3 Ke5 58.Bg3+
Kd5 59.Bd6 h6 60.Kf4 Kc6 61.Ke4 h5 62.Kd4 h4 63.Kc4 Kd7 64.Kb5 Ke6 65.Bh2 Kf5 66.c6 Ke6 67.Kb6 Ke7 68.c7 Kd7 69.Kb7 Ke7 70.c8=Q
Kf6 71.Qg4 h3 72.Kc8 Kf7 73.Be5 Kf8 74.Kd7 h2 75.Qg7# 1-0

 

Chapter 5: Drasius vs Tartakower

[White “Drasius”]
[Black “Tartakower”]
[Result “1-0”]

1.b3 d5 2.c3 e5 3.d3 Nf6 4.Bb2 Nc6 5.Nd2 Bd6 6.Qc2 O-O 7.h3 e4 8.e3 Re8 9.d4 a5 10.a3 a4 11.b4 Ne7 12.g3 c6 13.O-O-O b5 14.Ne2
Qc7 15.Kb1 Ng6 16.Ka1 Bf5 17.Bg2 h6 18.Rdg1 Red8 19.Qd1 Rdb8 20.Nf4 Nxf4 21.gxf4 Bg6 22.Bf1 Bh5 23.Be2 Bxe2 24.Qxe2 Re8 25.f3
exf3 26.Qxf3 Qd7 27.f5 Qe7 28.Qg2 Nh5 29.Qg4 Qg5 30.Qf3 Qxe3 31.Qxh5 Qxd2 32.f6 Bf8 33.fxg7 Bd6 34.Qf5 Re2 35.Rb1 Bg3 36.Rhf1
Bf2 37.Qf6 Rc8 38.Ka2 Qe3 39.Rbc1 Re8 40.Qxc6 Re6 41.Qxb5 Qd2 42.Rb1 Qxc3 43.Rfc1 Qb3+ 44.Ka1 Be1 45.Rc8+ Kxg7 46.Qb8 Qf3
47.Rg8+ Kf6 48.Qf8 Bd2 49.Qg7+ Ke7 50.Ra8 R6e3 51.Rxa4 Bc3 52.Ra7+ Ke6 53.Bxc3 Re1 54.Qxh6+ f6 55.Rxe1 Rxe1+ 56.Bxe1 Qd1+ 57.Kb2
Qe2+ 58.Bd2 Qd3 59.Qf4 Qe2 60.a4 Qe4 61.Ra6+ Kd7 62.Qd6+ Ke8 63.Ra8+ Kf7 64.Rf8+ Kg6 65.Qxf6+ Kh7 66.Qh6# 1-0

The Goddess Caissa

The revenge was over, the warrior named Drasius kept his word, now it was time to seek the secret of the resurrection; a secret protected by the gods of chess, but Drasius did not have the ability to defeat them, so he went to the island of roses where the Goddess Caissa lived, the creator of the game called chess.
On the shores of the island were carpets of petals of different colors, rose bushes abound throughout the island. Drasius shouted: “Revenge has been mine, Goddess Caissa.” The goddess appeared judging Drasius for his evil. Drasius said: “Judge me and help me defeat the gods of chess, I want the secret of the resurrection.” The goddess Caissa observed Drasius from head to toe, and said: “Now you are immortal, and every time you play chess, immortality will disappear little by little, and if you lose you will die; Do you plan to continue with your desire? ”

Drasius mentioned all his knowledge about chess.

Chess is a mental war between two enemies, there are 16 pieces of gold for one and 16 pieces of silver for another; and the pieces are placed on a diamond board divided into 64 squares, 8 columns (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h) and 8 rows (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). Alternating clear diamond square and dark diamond square.
Imagen 1

 

The 16 pieces are: A king, a queen, two bishops, two horses, two towers and eight pawns. The movements for each piece are the following:
The Pawns can move one or two squares from their initial position, and then only one square, always advancing to the other end of the board. There can not be two pieces using the same frame, and the following situations can be given from a block, a possible capture or a square occupied by a piece of the same group of 16 pieces.

 

The pawns capture in diagonal right or diagonal left, and always advancing to the front. (The capture is when a piece occupies the same square of the enemy piece to remove it from the board, unlike the pawn, the other pieces capture in the direction of their movements).

 

There is also capture in the pass, and that is when a pawn moves two squares from its initial position and is placed next to an enemy pawn, which has the option to capture in the next move, otherwise, the capture of the pawn does not it’s possible.


A special ability of the pawns is to become another piece between rook, knight, bishop and queen, when they reach the other end of the board.


The king moves a square in any direction, but can not move to a square where it can be captured; and it can not remain in a square where its capture is possible, so it has to take some action from moving or protecting itself with another of its pieces.


The queen moves in any direction and all possible squares, without jumping on any piece.


The tower moves in the direction of all possible squares in a column or row, without jumping on any piece.

 

The bishop moves on the diagonal of light squares or dark squares, according to the assigned square from the beginning of the game.


The horse moves two squares in any direction and then a square to the left or right of the chosen direction; or the horse moves one square in any direction and then two squares to the left or right of the chosen direction. And it can jump on any piece.


There is a special move called Castling that is done with king and rook, the pieces must not have been moved from the start of the game to make the long Castling or the Castling short. The king moves two squares to the right or to the left, the squares must not be threatened or occupied, while the tower jumps over the king to be placed in the first square where the king passed.


And defeating the enemy king is the end of the game, however there may be a tie.

Faced with such knowledge, the goddess Caissa began to laugh, and said: “All you have mentioned is to play and not to win.” A chess god named Alekhine appeared, and said: “Goddess Caissa, how dare you teach Drasius chess? Now you deserve an exemplary punishment. ”
The goddess Caissa made appear a chessboard with her pieces, and said: “The island of the roses is my prison and here I command”.