Over the last 24 years, I have played several hundred games of chess against my good friend (and chess mentor) Brent Jablonski. Of those hundreds of games, I have only won a handful (seriously, I've won less than 20 games total-I'm like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football Lucy is holding).
So when I beat Brent in a two-minute blitz game of chess (the first game we have played together in over a year) there was much rejoicing on my part. I immediately whipped out the smart phone, snapped a picture and upoaded it to this blog. As you can see from the photo above, my rook move to g8 gives checkmate...or so we thought at the time. We ended the game and continued to play several more, of which Brent cleaned up 5-2.
Much to my dismay, later that evening, I received a voicemail from Brent. He said he went to the blog to check out the photo and to post a message in response to my victory. When he viewed the picture, much to my chagrin, it turns out that there is one move that he could have made to escape checkmate. Can you see it? A special no-prize will be given to the first person who posts the correct solution.
D'oh!
