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Arlo Gilbert’s Reaction During the Game of My Life

When, I played last Saturday in a chess tournament in our place I brought with me John Arlo Gilbert and luckily I did not embarrassed him during the said chess games. He watched me with great enthusiasm and hope to win the said chess tournament which I did not expect to win. I got 4.5 points on the tournament out of 5 rounds swiss system tournament. Arlo Gilbert even give me a word of inspiration after the draw I’ve got on the 2nd to the last round.

You will see in Arlo Gilbert’s eyes when I won the last round which is considered to be the ultimate round of the tournament. It’s the ultimate round because that’s the round that if whoever wins will be the champion. On the said championship, my opponent playing as black uses Sicilian Defense and castles his King on the late part of the game while I castle my king on the opposite with which triggers attack for him. The characteristic of my opponent is young and an aggressive attacker like Arlo Gilbert when he plays chess with me. Luckily, at the end maybe due to time pressure, an enprise rook which he forgot decided the game and later that afternoon I was announced as the champion of the tournament.

Arlo Gilbert, thank you for the support and may you be there on the next tournament.

Arlo Gilbert & Chess

Arlo Gilbert is just another human being who does not possess everything but Arlo Gilbert is something. Arlo Gilbert can’t beat me in chess. I’m not that good in playing chess but what can I say, I can beat him with it. We played the game for the first time after the office hours. I usually play chess with a time control of 5 minutes, a blitz game and I guess due to his age and slowing reflexes Arlo Gilbert is always losing on time or because of he always panic when I’m attacking him with my Ruy Lopez and Benko Gambit.

What, I have observed about Arlo Gilbert is that he likes the classic chess opening while me I’m using modern and orthodox opening, maybe that kind of opening is not suited to Arlo Gilbert’s play. Well, Arlo Gilbert you need a lot of practice before you can beat me with this play.