Chapter 12: Drasius vs Shirov

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

1.b3 d5 2.c3 Nf6 3.d3 e5 4.Qc2 Bf5 5.h3 Nc6 6.Bb2 Bc5 7.Nd2 O-O 8.a3 Qe7 9.b4 Bb6 10.e3 e4 11.d4 a6 12.O-O-O Rad8 13.g4 Be6
14.Kb1 h5 15.Be2 hxg4 16.hxg4 Bxg4 17.Bxg4 Nxg4 18.Nh3 Qh4 19.Nb3 a5 20.Rdg1 f5 21.b5 Ne7 22.a4 c6 23.Nf4 Qxf2 24.Qxf2 Nxf2
25.Ne6 Nxh1 26.Rxg7+ Kh8 27.Rxe7 Rfe8 28.Rxb7 Rxe6 29.Rxb6 f4 30.c4 fxe3 31.cxd5 Rf6 32.dxc6 e2 33.Bc3 Rf3 34.Bxa5 Rxb3+ 35.Ka2
Rf3 36.c7 Rff8 37.Rh6+ Kg8 38.cxd8=Q Rxd8 39.Rxh1 Rxd4 40.Kb3 Kf7 41.Re1 Ke6 42.Rxe2 Rd3+ 43.Bc3 Kf5 44.a5 Rd5 45.b6 Kf4 46.Kc4
Rd7 47.a6 Kf3 48.Rd2 Rxd2 49.Bxd2 e3 50.Bxe3 Kxe3 51.a7 Kf4 52.b7 Kg5 53.a8=Q Kf4 54.b8=Q+ Kg5 55.Qd5+ Kh6 56.Qf7 Kg5 57.Qbf4#
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Chapter 11: Drasius vs Short

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

1.b3 e5 2.c3 d5 3.d3 Nc6 4.Qc2 Nf6 5.Bb2 d4 6.c4 Bb4+ 7.Nd2 O-O 8.a3 Bc3 9.Bxc3 dxc3 10.Nb1 Bf5 11.Nxc3 e4 12.O-O-O exd3 13.Qb2
dxe2 14.Ngxe2 Qe7 15.Ng3 Bg6 16.Bd3 Rfe8 17.Kb1 Rad8 18.Bxg6 Rxd1+ 19.Rxd1 hxg6 20.Ka2 Rd8 21.Nd5 Nxd5 22.Rxd5 Qe1 23.Rxd8+ Nxd8
24.Qe2 Qxe2+ 25.Nxe2 Ne6 26.Kb2 Kf8 27.Kc3 Ke7 28.b4 Kd6 29.Nd4 Nxd4 30.Kxd4 g5 31.c5+ Kc6 32.a4 g4 33.f4 gxf3ep 34.gxf3 a6
35.f4 b6 36.f5 bxc5+ 37.bxc5 Kd7 38.Kc4 Kc6 39.h3 g6 40.h4 Kd7 41.Kd5 gxf5 42.Ke5 f4 43.Kxf4 c6 44.Ke5 Ke7 45.h5 Kf8 46.Kd6 f5
47.Ke5 Kg7 48.Kxf5 Kh6 49.Ke5 Kxh5 50.a5 Kg5 51.Kd6 Kf6 52.Kxc6 Ke6 53.Kb7 Kd5 54.c6 Kc5 55.c7 Kd5 56.c8=Q Kd4 57.Kxa6 Ke5
58.Qg4 Kf6 59.Kb7 Ke5 60.a6 Kf6 61.a7 Ke5 62.a8=Q Kf6 63.Qd8+ Ke5 64.Qdd4# 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”.