[Event "Stanley Random Chess: SM@18 Stanley Random League"]
[Site "SchemingMind.com"]
[Date "2020.07.17"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Clive Everill"]
[Black "Squibber"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Variant "stanleyrandom"]
[WhiteCountry "CZE"]
[BlackCountry "ENG"]
[WhiteElo "2019"]
[WhiteRD "150"]
[BlackElo "1907"]
[BlackRD "148"]
[GameID "457799"]

1. c4
{
Clive Everill: so, here we are Sir Squib of Squab! :) Let battle commence - wonder what delights Stanley will torture us with? :) 
}
{
JPT: I did place an official request with Sir Stanley to pay you back for my humiliating defeats at your hands in Bratislava so I await the results. As they say revenge is a dish best served cold like jelly and ice cream
}
{
Squibber: No failures in Batislava at standard are able to be redressed in the higher form of the game.
}
1... e6 2. Qa4
{
Clive Everill: or a cold lasagne, suspended in deep freeze? :) 
By the higher form of the game, you surely mean Random 960?? :D 
}
{
JPT: I must admit to a liking for left over cold pizza for breakfast in the morning, but no Sir Clive of Lumpy i think our genius chess freind means good old SRC. On a side note the other week Cas as watching a random youtube video of some young lads travellering around europe and without knowing where they were suddenly realised they were staying at the hostel blues, by the view from one of the balconies.  
}
{
Squibber: If you are refeing to our last game see the text. J-The view from my balcony in Blue was very good and it was a nice place to chill out wizh a beer. I recently found some photos I had taken from it ,
}
2... b5 3. cxb5
{
Clive Everill: didn't see the balcony view - only the view over the board - one I got familiar with! :) 
Cold pizza?? For breakfast??!! I had a friend who, on our hiking travels across Switzerland, liked Black Forest Gateaux for his breakfast! :) 
}
{
JPT: At least it explains why I missed your checkmate, I was subconsciously looking too much out of the window at the fantastic views!!!
}
{
JPT: Ah revenge tastes sweet
}
{
Squibber: it might have to wait a year though.
}
3... Nf6 4. e3
{
Clive Everill: enjoy the taste, J - it's only a virtual one :) I'm the real deal - I can dish up some humble pie for you, with lashings of custard! :) 
}
{
Squibber: You can#t win if we don'i play.ypu may become a shadow.
}
4... Qe7 5. Nc3
{
Clive Everill: true...we will all be losers :( 
But the Shadows were instrumental in Cliff Richard's success! 
}
{
JPT: When i said revenge taste sweet to clarify, that schemingmind game against Sir Clive was just the apéritif....and  i've yet to get to you Professor Mori-squibber.
}
{
Squibber: You mean because of the Racing Kings?
}
5... Qd8 6. Nf3
{
Clive Everill: Elementary, my dear Morisquibber :) Beware the Stan of the Baskerblunders! 
}
{
Squibber: Elemwntary? Do <ou then remember Roosavelt franklin?
}
6... Bb7 7. Be2
{
Clive Everill: he was a bit before my time :) 
Great result in the cricket! :) 
}
{
Squibber: With all due respect he was not so I doubt that you know who I'm talking about Watson, though that is quiet understandable from a Brit. That was indeed a good result and a great Test. I followed most of the morning session, which was already getting rather exciting, but had to go out shortly after lunch. When I came home it was over. i think it is the first timw in six series we have won the first test. Is that a good or a bad omen?
}
7... Bc5 8. d3
{
Clive Everill: Hopefully a good one, though we'll have to win the series without Stokes now - the big question...who will replace him? The mighty Denly?? :O
So, remind me, Holmes - who was Roosevelt Franklin - was he related to Franklin Roosevelt? :)
}
{
JPT: Mr Google is your friend sir lumpy-watson he can advise you of Mr franklin's historical presence, ah no mori-squibber I talk of revenge for yours and lumpy-watsons Bratislava coup, which wrestled the title from my hands.
}
{
JPT: SRC as you know is above such things, and I refer to my latest win in standard chess against sir lumpy-watson, which propelled me to a tie break victory in that schemingmind tourney.
}
{
Squibber: Do you know the names of Bodi8sea's daughters?
}
8... d6 9. Qf4
{
Clive Everill: yes...people make a habit of beating me here, on SM - but in real life...it's pay back time! :) I'll be back ;-)
Roosevelt Franklin - an early member of Sesame Street? Can't say I remember that one - I was more of a fan of the Muppets! :)
Google tells me that we don't know the names of Boadicea's daughters - only that Shakespeare made up names for them, as well as creating lots of new words for the Eng language! :) What a guy!  

}
{
Squibber: Well Sesame Street and The Muppet Show were really almost the same thing. Roosevelt was elementary because he famously attended The Roosavelt Franklin Elementary School. The first series of Sesame street, with Roosavelt, came out in 1970 so if anything you were perhaps a litle old to make his aquaintance. Last time i went for a beer with Big Bird and Mr.Snuffleupagus they told me that to the best of their knowledge Roosevelt was not related to the 32nd. or even the 26th. President of The United States.
}
9... e5 10. Qg3
{
Clive Everill: the beer is strong in Germany, eh? :) I know! Conversations with Muppets? Sounds like you went to a meeting of the British govt! :) 
}
{
Squibber: My pöoor beer.
}
10... e4 11. O-O
{
Clive Everill: gone anywhere interesting for your holiday? :)
}
{
Squibber: I'd say so. I went to Austria and walked the Lechweg.
}
11... O-O 12. Nb1
{
Clive Everill: tell me more, tell me more! :) Never heard of it, but will check it out - good for you! 
}
{
Squibber: The Lechweg starts in Voralberg in Austria near to the Formariansee (a lake) at the source of the river Lech in the Lachquelle mountains. It follows the river to Tirol and through the Lechtal mountains and the Algäuer mountains in to Bavaria in Germany and to zhe Lech waterfall. Sometimes the path is on the river bank and sometimes it wanders off somewhwere else for a while.
}
{
Squibber: Summer days, drifting away.........
}
12... Ba6
{
JPT: How long did it take to walk the lechweg?
}
13. bxa6
{
Clive Everill: sounds great! :) Idyllic! As J says, how long did it take you? 
Did you keep a travelogue, as you've done before? :) 
https://www.lechtal.at/en/summer/the-lechweg-trail/
}
{
Squibber: I took 8 days to walk The Lechweg. I have never kept a travelogue. The notes I sent you about The Squibberweg were written from memory with the aid of a map. If you still have them then you are the only person in the world, including myself, who does. I have some information about The lechweg however, and it is fresh in my head.
}
13... Ba3 14. Ne5
{
Clive Everill: :) Of course I still have them! Saved in my old mail box - for posterity, and for if I ever made it that way :) 
If you care to share some thoughts about the Lechweg, or stories, I'd be happy to read them! :)
}
{
Squibber: Of course I might send you a story it you are really interested. I could tell you how I got there for instance. Perhaps that might interest you.
}
14... dxe5 15. bxa3
{
Clive Everill: yes, please :) Do it!! 
}
{
Squibber: What would be the appropiate means, as it could run into detail, PM?
}
15... g5 16. Qxg5+
{
Clive Everill: PM or e-mail :)
}
{
Squibber: I have lost your e-mail.
}
16... Kh8 17. Qxe5
{
Clive Everill: I will PM it to you :) 
}
{
Squibber: Okay, it will take a few days.
}
17... Nd7 18. a4
{
Clive Everill: no worries...I'm not leaving the country! :D 
}
{
Squibber: Just back from a trip to the mountains.
}
18... Nxe5 19. d4
{
Clive Everill: which mountains? Hope it went well ;-) 
}
{
Squibber: Chiemgauer mountains, starting in Bavaria but mostly in Tirol in Austria which germany has since declared a corona risk area.
}
19... h6 20. dxe5
{
Clive Everill: Yes, looks like lockdown is coming our way here too....good that you got a walk in before that...
We had hoped to go up a mountain to the north, but the weather was wet and windy over the weekend...
}
{
Squibber: Yes it was a bit of a squeeze, we left Tirol on the Tuesday and it was declared a risk area in Germany on the Friday. They brought mask duty in mountain huts in on the Monday. It was great to get a mountain tour in. There are risk areas springing up all over the place now. Travelling abroad much discouraged.
}
20... Nd5 21. Bb2
{
Clive Everill: same here - pretty much can't travel out of the country...our students will be home for at least 2 wks beginning Monday - online teaching...but hopefully it will be just a short time...
}
{
Squibber: Most of UK now risk areas in Germany including North England.
}
21... f6 22. Na3
{
Clive Everill: errr...read that sentence again ;-) Countries mixed up? Or is this Stanley writing? :) 
}
{
Squibber: No, the areas are risk areas in Germany. North England is included as the worst.
}
22... Rb8 23. Bd4
{
Clive Everill: perhaps some punctuation was missing? :) Me being pedantic! :P 
Czech Rep is now among the worst nations! A lot of panic mongering going on over here...
}
{
Squibber: I have been following it in Czech Repuplic and elsewhere. Infection rates going up fast everywhere, Here as well. Is it just scaremongering?
}
23... fxe5 24. Bxe5+
{
Clive Everill: that's a good question - Petra thinks you can't totally trust the numbers, they can be manipulated - BUT, the threat is very serious - we know someone (61) who died of it - it created pneumonia - 2 wks in artificial coma, died Sunday :( More colleagues & students are getting it, more patients being diagnosed positive...not serious for everyone, but deadly for some...
}
{
Squibber: They can be manipulated but why in every case? In central and westen Europe the numbers come from health organisations rather than governments and they are going drastically upwards all over. If they are all manipulated then the health organizations in every country must be doing it but why would they? Deadly for some,yes, 1,095,216 up to now, 6,030 yesterday.
}
24... Qf6
{
Squibber: Not my day.
}
25. Nb5
{
Clive Everill: well, out of the world's population, it's a lot, but more die of other things...and the problem is that people with 'regular' illnesses are not getting treated...
Why manipulate them? Here, it's usually financial reasons - money is never far away in the decision making of our politicians..sadly...I would like to believe that they genuinely cared about the mass population...but I'm not convinced...but, I still pray for them ;-) 

}
{
Squibber: A million deads will not make much of a dent in the world population, or even the rate of increase. In fact the extra birth rates caused by lockdowns and prohibitions might increase it. Ihave indeed heard some  stories of other patients not getting their required treatment due to it. Sometimes fatal.
}
25... Rfe8
{
Squibber: Once more Aaagh! 
}
26. Bxc7
{
Clive Everill: :) an interesting point! At one time, a few years ago, there were more Czechs dying than being born! This could change now. 
Stanley, where have you been all of my life? :D 
}
{
Clive Everill: then again, why change your habits? :(
}
{
Squibber: Stanley, you false friend, you perfidious criminal, you traitor, you scheming wretch you rescuer, you entertainer, do you forget that I am  a pilgrim? That I have been to Benediktbeuren, that I know
 O, Fortuna?
O Fortuna,
velut luna
statu varabalis,
semper crescis
aut descrescis,

Chnange tack please.
}
26... Nxc7 27. Nxc7
{
Clive Everill: Carpe Deum, Stan! :) 
}
{
Squibber: Indeed you should. There is a new suggestion on our forum.
}
27... Rg8 28. Bc4
{
Clive Everill: ok, I will take a look :) Thanks!
}
{
Squibber: I have not seen any cormorants on the river yet, I wonder when they turn up. I did however observe this summer, in my neighbour's garden, for the first time, a blue wood bee.
}
28... Qh4 29. Bxg8
{
Clive Everill: a blue wood bee? I can't say I knew such a thing existed.
We were at the cottage today, dropping Maminka off for a few days, and a black woodpecker landed on the tree! First time we've seen one at the cottage, though we have seen them in nearby woods :) 
}
{
Squibber: Neither did I so I did not know what I had seen. They are quite impressive, not a spot of yellow, dark blue and big and they also have dark blue wings. I did not know it was a bee so it took a while to find  out what it was.
O Fortune,
like the moon
 you are changeable, 
}
29... Rxg8 30. Nb5
{
Clive Everill: :) Stan is having a few wild blips in this game...could go any direction...even a draw! :) 
Did you get a picture of the blue bee? :) 
I have a nice line in pawns! :D 
}
{
Squibber: No, I rarely carry a camera or phone around with me but there are plenty on the internet, they are aöso called blue carpenter bees.
}
30... Qg4 31. g3
{
Clive Everill: for sure, they're on the internet, but people's own pics mean more :) 
}
{
Squibber: Okay, I told the neighbour about it and he recently told me he had looked in the same place and found two of them. It is just possible we might see them next year in which case I will try to fotograph them for you.
}
31... Qh3 32. Rfd1
{
Clive Everill: :) that would be very cool! And by then, we might be living in a different kind of world! :D 
}
{
Squibber: Or not. A friend who lives not very far away has said she has also seen zhem in her garden, so it is intereating to observe them.
}
32... Rg7 33. Rd8+
{
Clive Everill: wow...I believe this is the ONLY time I have been above you in the ratings in ANY form of chess on SM! :) Thank you, Stan! 
}
{
Clive Everill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylocopa_violacea
}
{
Squibber: How disgusting, the shame is massive and it looks like getting worse.
}
33... Kh7 34. Rc1
{
Clive Everill: therefore, I shall indulge myself in some gloating, should the moment arrive... ;-) 
}
{
Squibber: I'm sure.
}
34... Rf7 35. Nd6
{
Squibber: No treacle toffee again, though I imagine there was much less this year.
}
35... Re7 36. Rcc8
{
Clive Everill: please explain? :) 
}
{
Squibber: As a kid my mother used to make treacle toffee for bonfire night, I guess there were not so many bonfires last night.
}
36... Rf7
{
Squibber: No fortuna.
}
37. Nxf7
{
Clive Everill: I see :) The old toffee apples! I wasn't such a fan, but caramel apple pie does the trick! 
}
{
Clive Everill: Stan, you are TOO kind! :)
}
{
Squibber: Are you buying him drinks? Treacle toffee was other than toffee apples. My mother made it in a baking tray. It is hard and brittle and she had a little hammer she would smash it with. Then you got the pieces in a little bag to eat on bonfire night.
}
37... Qg2+
{
Squibber: I don't believe that move. Along with ...Qf8+ it is absolutely the worst move playable as you are entirely compelled to take the queen without loss or risk and a STAR move is therefore impossible.
}
38. Kxg2
{
Clive Everill: aha...now I know what you mean! The stuff that could rot your teeth, though it was yummy! :) Didn't have it that often, & if I did, it was the bought stuff...
Well, well, well...seems I have no choice but to take your poor Queen...is Stan playing for a stalemate, perhaps? :D 
}
{
Squibber: The most impressive thing was that my mother had a really small hammer which I can only imagine was just for the purpose. A stalemate would be for Stan a complete change of heart. Look on our forum.
}
38... Kg7 39. Nd6
{
Clive Everill: ok, will do, later...busy day, online teaching :) 
}
{
Squibber: All my pieces have killed themselves, what should I do now?
}
39... Kf6 40. Nxe4+
{
Clive Everill: wait for stalemate :) 
}
{
Squibber: A passive processs.
}
40... Kg6
{
Squibber: And another STAR move so very passive..
}
41. Rc6+
{
Squibber: All it needs is a wooly sock......
}
41... Kf5 42. f3
{
Clive Everill: keeping things tight
}
{
Squibber: Yes, like a fish's arse, what shall I do now? If I was the Pweident of America I might just declare myself the winner and go home.
}
42... h5 43. Rb6
{
Clive Everill: recount the moves, for sure!! :) Some of these are surely dead! :D 
}
{
Clive Everill: but wait...what's this?? :O
}
{
Squibber: Do you think Stan is allowing illegal moves to steal the game? Stop vthe steal!
}
43... axb6 44. Rf8+
{
Clive Everill: yes, I do...time to build a wall, or circulate some fake news...!! 
Bobby Fischer is not dead!
}
{
Squibber: Actually very little of the wall was built and it was not really a wall either, just a fence which was extended only 15 miles along a very long border, though more is planned. The Mexicans did not pay for it either and they say if you build a higher fence we will bring a longer ladder.
}
44... Ke6 45. Rf6+
{
Clive Everill: better than a tunnel, though of course, the Chinese are digging that one, all the way to 'Murica! 
}
{
Squibber: Maybe gooks too, they're pretty good at tunnels.
}
45... Ke5 46. Rxb6 h4 47. a7
{
Squibber: It could be quiet this New Year; the government are proposing to ban fireworks.
}
47... hxg3 48. hxg3
{
Clive Everill: to be honest, no great loss for us :) We don't like them & usually take a sleeping tablet to avoid the midnight bombardment! :) A quiet New Year would be...bliss :) 
}
{
Squibber: Well it will be quieter.
}
48... Kd5 49. a8=Q+
{
Squibber: I will not behave like Trump on this ocassion. In fact the band are assembling on the deck of The Titanic to play "Nearer, my God, to thee".
}
49... Kc4 50. Qa6+
{
Clive Everill: :) no Leonarda de Caprio moment, either, I hope...I don't want this to be long & painful...up to you, Stan ;-) 
}
{
Squibber: Some survivors claimed that the last song played as the ship sunk was actually Autumn Walz but that seems much less fitting. I am not likely to be one though.
}
50... Kd5 51. Qf1
{
Clive Everill: could be the Last Waltz? :) Take your pick...Englebert Humperdinck, or The Band :) 
}
{
Clive Everill: Stan just went AWOL...
}
{
Squibber: Engelbert Humperdinck is also famous in Germany as a schlager singer where he is known simply as Engelbert. He is from Derby apparently.
 If Stan is considering changing allegiance it is now too late to do me any good. Consider that your last move did you no harm and that you could tolerate losing your queen, rook, knight and four pawns to just my king in seven seperate calamaties but still easily win the game.  
}
51... Ke5 52. Qa1+
{
Clive Everill: What is a schlager singer? :) 
From Derby, eh? 
Surely, I will win, but I would make it less painful! :)
}
{
Squibber: A bit like a like soething between a pop star and a crooner.
}
52... Kf5 53. Qh1
{
Clive Everill: I see :) 
}
{
Clive Everill: well, that was mate in one, but clearly too easy for Stan!
}
{
Squibber: Once more he did you no harm though, in fact you now stand better. 17 other possible STAR moves would have been much worse
}
53... Ke5 54. Rg6
{
Clive Everill: and the beat goes on...and on...and on...
}
{
Squibber: Like a cat cat playing with a wounded mouse.
}
54... Kd5 55. Kf2
{
Squibber: An interesting thing happened in the recent Micky Mouse Australia vs India, did you read about it? 
}
55... Kc4 56. Qc1+
{
Clive Everill: yes, I did...substitute issues :) And Covid breaking out in SA dressing room, cut put paid to our short tour there :(
}
{
Squibber: Yes it could but no it won't but yes again it might me. Up to now it is still not called off but it is hard to see how it can continue. England are due to fly home on Thursday, if they let them on the plane. What is your view of the substitute incident, okay or not okay? 
}
56... Kb4 57. Qc5+
{
Clive Everill: as for Eng, they should home - as for the substitute decision, well, it happens in other sports, but there has to be a serious injury, and NOT a tactical reason ;-) Otherwise, you could play a team of batsmen & then put 5 substitute bowlers on! ;-)
}
{
Squibber: Like in American football. On the Titanic meanwhile the band are still playing but they are getting very wet-
}
57... Kxa4 58. Qc6+
{
Clive Everill: there should be a gurgling sound by now...please! Do not mention American Football in the same breath as cricket, dear man! You'll be likening it to baseball next! :O Heavens above! 
}
{
Clive Everill: and still Stan prolongs the pain...he's seriously trying to get stalemate here!! :)
}
{
Squibber: If so he is not very good at it because there were 23 possible STAR moves on that last move which would have led to stalemate on the last move, rather mnore than did not so you were lucky.
}
58... Kb4 59. Qc5+
{
Squibber: Now band is swimming. seems like the England corona tests that got the tour called off were false. Bit of a mess that, eh?
}
59... Ka4 60. Ra6#
{
Clive Everill: not sure we should even have been there if the SA's can't look after themselves - too much stress for players living weird lives in bubbles etc...
}
{
Clive Everill: jaw drops!! :O Wow! Finally!! Thank you, Stan!! That was...painful! :) 
}
{
Squibber: Well played Clive. I once again gave Stan a stalemate chance as most STAR moves in this position would have led to one but he never really wanted to help me. Anyway you have quite destroyed my rating and respectability to such an extent that I am now obliged to enter a tournament to attempt to repair it. Such a nuisance have you become.
}
{
Clive Everill: :) the sweet smell of success!! I shall enjoy these heady heights, and look forward to working in tandem with Stan again!
}
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