Nihal's Accelerated Bb5+ Sicilian

Nihal once again experimenting with his Sicilian Variations (yes long way to go to the Shannon Number, we know), as he opted to miss out on the 2 Knights 2nd move, and opted to take his bishop into an accelerated Bb5+ opening.

This took Nihal's dad by surprise as he is used to seeing Bb5+ on the 3rd move, so coupled with this innovative mysterious thinking by Nihal, I pondered and endured a challenging yet strategic midgame over a refreshing bottle of Holsten Pils.

The countergambits paid off for Nihal, as he was not prepared to risk any silly moves, and eventually managed to scrape a draw, given that he was easliy losing towards the end with twice as many pieces lost mid game, but his two rooks and two knights hekped to secure Nihal's reputation as a chess prodigy.

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Nihal's Nimzovich-Rubinstein Opening

This was a match to settle the weekend of Chess ego. Both father and son, wanted to put excuses aside,and just get down to the real stuff!

So, Nihal varied his Sicilian once again, and this time opted for the Nimzowich-Rubinstein variation which further developed into a counter gambit during the opening game.

This time the mid game went on quite a while before any gambits paid off any pieces from the board. Once a few pawns came off, the game escalated into a like for like, battle, where heavy chess pieces took their tool.

Finally Nihal, fell for a very clever trap, whereby a brilliant fork checked his king. To withdraw from check Nihal, sacrificed his queen which when taken as part of the original fork, produced another fork on the bishop. Nihal, was mesmerized by the sheer brilliance of this fork, and duly paid his dad the respect needed for his Chess.

The end game, fizzled out into a battle of rooks and pawns against a feeble king, which was eventually checkmated into a corner. Bad luck Nihal, hoever for the record, you are doing very very well!

Nihal's Sicilian Alapin Opening

Nihal having already just done his martial arts training for the day still had enough energy to challenge his father for a Friday Evening Chess Game.

Myself, having had an equally exhaustive day, mentally however not physically at work, was reluctant to accept due to the lack of brain cell activity left for that day, however I accepted due to enthusiastic pressure from young Nihal.

So Nihal, opened with an intriuging Sicilian Alapin (unaccelerated) ie the c3 move was done in th 3rd move instead of the usual 2nd move. The previous move being the standard two knights.

The mid game developed into an interesting combination of forks and pins, however I got too embroiled in my fork strategy that I failed to see the queen take a clever move against my queen, and then finally I succumbed to a checkmate by Nihal's two rooks centering his queen.

My excuses are getting a bit lame now, and Nihal is getting ever more confident in his chess strategy.

Nihal, would just like to make a point for the record that this is his second win against his dad.