Mismatched

In a game, there is always one team or person usually stronger than the other, they have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. But, once everything is one sided, when one team has all the advantages and the other has all the disadvantages, its called a mismatch.

Just today we had our NCAA chess tournament at PCU. Going to PCU, I was talking to Eumir (Soncuya) about the PCU players. And he said something about some guy named Dayle. Last years MVP, the best player in the NCAA Jrs right now. He said I will most probabbly go up against him.

We arrived at PCU barley 5 mins before starting time and Gelo (Ramos) told me that the guy im going up against is not strong. I was relieved, im not going up against the MVP. But, I guess it was merley a confidence booster.

Like always we fill forms before playing a game, and the hell, I see, in blacks name: "Leo Dayle Jr". Typically a rookie will cringe at the site of his name. He is too good, too good even for Eumir. If he beat Legisma last year, what makes me think I can beat him?

The game finished at 34 moves, we spend an hour playing chess. I used my D4 opening and he opened using D5. What made coach really happy was that I made him think. He destroyed every plan he tried to mate me in the mid game. I got his queen out of the way early (but sacrificing my queen as well) just to make sure it will go down the wire. Well, I guess its a great confidence booster on my part to go up against him.

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