The 2,000,000th post game

https://www.self.com/story/how-jessie-graff-eats-and-exercises

Hey buddy how's it going

Heh.

Time really does bring about a change.

But my time is more limited today than most Wednesdays, so let me keep on my production track.

Below, log of a recent game. Almost certainly a computer, judging from the rounded-to-nearest-hundred ranking (1700).
I suppose it could also have been a regular person just given that as starting ranking, though; I'm not really yet sure how chessbasedotcom does these things.

Crucial "blink" on my Queen offer opened his king up to attack. From their, accident of position made just about everything I tried work.

1. e4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} e5 {[%emt 0:0:6]} 2. Bc4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Qe7 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 3. d4 {[%emt 0:0:2]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:0:14]} 4. Bg5 {[%emt 0:0:9]} Qb4+ {[%emt 0:0:4]} 5. Nd2 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Nxe4 {[%emt 0:0:20]} 6. a3 {[%emt 0:0:12]} Nxd2 {[%emt 0:0:25]} 7. Bxd2 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Qxc4 {[%emt 0:0:4]} 8. Nf3 {[%emt 0:0:12]} Be7 {[%emt 0:0:26]} 9. Qe2 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Qxe2+ {[%emt 0:0:17]} 10. Kxe2 {[%emt 0:0:2]} e4 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 11. Ng1 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 0-0 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 12. h4 {[%emt 0:0:6]} d5 {[%emt 0:0:13]} 13. h5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} Bg4+ {[%emt 0:0:6]} 14. f3 {[%emt 0:0:6]} exf3+ {[%emt 0:0:6]} 15. gxf3 {[%emt 0:0:1]} Bf5 {[%emt 0:0:3]} 16. h6 {[%emt 0:0:4]} g6 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 17. Nh3 {[%emt 0:0:19]} Bxc2 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 18. Nf4 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Bb3 {[%emt 0:0:12]} 19. Nd3 {[%emt 0:0:18]} Bc4 {[%emt 0:0:11]} 20. f4 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:0:7]} 21. Ke3 {[%emt 0:0:12]} Rae8 {[%emt 0:0:8]} 22. Rae1 {[%emt 0:0:16]} Bf6+ {[%emt 0:0:5]} 23. Kf2 {[%emt 0:0:7]} Bxd4+ {[%emt 0:0:10]} 24. Be3 {[%emt 0:0:8]} Bxe3+ {[%emt 0:0:9]} 25. Rxe3 {[%emt 0:0:4]} Rxe3 {[%emt 0:0:10]} 26. Kxe3 {[%emt 0:0:1]} d4+ {[%emt 0:0:8]} 27. Ke4 {[%emt 0:0:7]} f5+ {[%emt 0:0:5]} 0-1

That's some messed up math right there.

Letter and numbers, must be some sort of algebra.

Have to watch those Queens, they will mess up your Kings.

Silly smurfer, you can't play chess on the computer.

I have heard of playing chess through the mail.

That would get hard to keep track of in the late game.

Unless you have an outstanding memory.

Unlike mine which is made primarily of swiss cheese and good intentions.

Oddly enough I am better at chess than I am checkers.

My Grandpa always beat me at checkers, the man was a prodigy or something.

But I could hold my own at chess. Sometimes.

Chinese checkers was a whole other deal, my dad is a master of that twisted game.

The guy is a genius chinese checkers and carrom player.

He even had a custom carrom table gifted to him from a Chinese player in the 70s.

8-ball was my mom's game, she's the kind of player tha owns their own balanced cue stick in a slick black case.

You see that case and you just know they're gonna run the table all night.

I got a crummy cue stick in a beat up case I got at a pawn shop, it ain't pretty but it works.