I just lost at chess to my daughter Tamasain who is not yet nine! In my defence I did surrender my queen voluntarily at the beginning of the game, but in what might be a scent of things to come, I totally missed her ability to swoop down with her castle to do a basic “back row” checkmate. I had no defences that would stop it and as she helpfully pointed out afterwards I should have moved a pawn forward earlier in the game to give my king a way out. O the indignity of it! Still at least I beat my son Henry in the next game!
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