Excited, about the Gift, you’ve Been Given?

I was given an absolute gift of a chess game, a while back.
(I do hope that you can stay with me for this post, even though I’m going on about a certain chess game… again. 🙂 )
It was the game with a 6 Queen Checkmate.

I do view the game as being a gift. (I’ll try to go into the details of why I think this, at the end of this post, for any who might like to know such details??)

When I received the gift, I got just a little bit excited.
I shared the results of that game, with a few people.
My wife, reached the point of, “Not this again!”
Maybe a few others reached that point too??
(Maybe your thinking that, as you’re reading this??? 🙂 )

I’m not going to go into all the details of how I shared about the game, but share I did!
“A 6 Queen Checkmate, covering the entire board! Just look at IT!!!” … May have been said, one or two times???

It’s safe to say, that I did get excited, and I did happily share the details of the game, with many people. (And will probably carry on doing so.)

Then a thought comes to me, along the lines of,
“You’ve been excited to share about a gift of a game you played (was given). But, do you have an excitement to share about a much Greater Gift that you have received?
The Gift of Salvation?
The Gift of Life, with Our Lord God Almighty?”

If you need to stop reading, and just dwell on that thought, then please, feel free to do so.

We have been given the Greatest Gift of All, Jesus Christ Crucified on the Cross, to pay the price, for All that we have done wrong.
If we accept the Greatest Gift, then we can enjoy the benefits of having a relationship with Our Lord God Almighty.

For those who have accepted this gift, then how excited are we to share, about this gift?

Rather than me going on and on, babbling about my thoughts on this matter, I’m just going to end this post here, and ask that you ponder the above paragraph, with Our Lord God.

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Well, that is the end of this week’s post.
But for those who want the extra time, I’ll try to explain why I think the game, that I played, was a gift. If you’re not that interested in chess, then this next bit, might not be for you. 🙂

The first reason that I consider it to be a gift, is because I played it, and I know, just how much I was freaking out, about not getting a stalemate.
This has been the result when I’d tried to get a multi Queen Checkmate in the past.
Because of my freaked out mind, my actions weren’t, the well planned out actions of someone who knew what they were doing. Instead, they were very much so the, let’s just try it and see, what happens next, approach.

In order to have the all board, dominating position (where every square on the board was covered by one of the Queen’s or king) then six Queens, were needed.
What good fortune it was, to have just the right number of pieces on the board to achieve this!
Further more, what good fortune it was that white, didn’t take a pawn or two, when it could have done so, very easily. I would have taken them, if I was playing with the white pieces.
(No, I can’t answer for why white, played the way it did. You’d need to ask the computer or programmers for the answer to that one. 🙂 )
The bishop just committing suicide made sense to me. It couldn’t do anything, and if white was playing for a stalemate, then loosing it’s bishop, should aid that goal.
All in all, wasn’t it a happy coincidence, that in order for me to have the six Queen Total board covering finishing position, that what I needed, I had.
Namely, six Queen’s, and nothing more, and nothing less. A gift of, just what was needed.

Having the needed 6 Queens is one thing, but they also ended up being lined up, all in the correct position, to one side of the board, rather than in the middle.
I’ve just run through what would happen if the Queens were in a central position, and it does work, but the final finishing position is slightly different.
Instead of the Queens being lined up along the central diagonal, as they were in my game, they would be shifted over to the side by one square.
Instead of starting on H8, the Queen line up, would have been on G8. The H8 starting position, just looks that little bit better, to me.
All the Queens, lined up along the central diagonal.
What good fortune it was, that the Queens just wound up, on the locations, that led to the better finishing position.
To me, it just adds to the thought, that the game was given as a gift to me. 🙂

Although I was wanting to have an epic finishing position, I had no idea of how to achieve it?
I knew that once I had promoted all the pawns to Queens, I was safe to move my King, as this would be giving a check. But I didn’t know at the time, that my King needed to go to B1, from C2, in order for the tempo to remain in my favour.
From my point of view, it’s just such good fortune, that things ended up, just as they did.

For the final march of the Queens, the main thought that was running through my mind was, just get a check!
There wasn’t a plan for how to end up with an epic finish, just simply the desperate thought of, make sure that a check is achieved!
As I was moving the first Queen, I was expecting to achieve a Checkmate, but it wasn’t to be, as it was moving the one safe square, up by one square, which the white King, could then move onto.
I would like to say that I knew what I was doing, but that would be a lie. As I moved the second Queen, I’d just stumbled into the solution, that was achieved. It’s only after the game, by analysing what happened, that I now know, what was going on.

All in all, this was a solution for a Chess Position, that I just stumbled into.
I would love to say that I worked it out beforehand, but my chess playing, just isn’t there, at this point in time. I’m still, very much so, a beginner.
It’s for all these reasons, that I look on the game in question, as being a gift.

Which is why I would like for this chess position/solution, to be known as, All Glory to God, Chess Solution,
which was given to, and then written up, by Wannabe Christian Doorman.