My Tombstone Game Poem by Darwin Henry Beuning

You are obviously a master of chess playing. Tournament chess must be another level from social games. I played chess for a while at high school. Another fine photo-'the writer at work'.

a long, thin tombstone? shaped like a chess piece? perhaps you will also take the board and pieces to your grave? ? bri :)

Here are the moves to the game in algebraic notation. 1. N-f3 N-f6 2. P-g3 P-g6 3. B-g2 B-g7 4. OO OO 5. P-d3 P-d6 6. P-e4 N-g4 7. P-h3 N-e5 8. N-h4 P-f5 9. P-f4 N4-d7 10. PxP PxP 11. B-d5ck K-h8 12. Q-h5 N-f6 13. N-g6 checkmate This will easier for chess lovers to follow, Enjoy! ! Hank

The picture is a great addition. Thanks for letting me know it was there. It must have been taken by your brother at his Minnesota house.

Checkmate in 13 moves? What took you so long? My favorite game only took eight moves! Of course it all depends on what the opponent does! My game was played during the day, and my opponent said 'It can't be checkmate already! ' Sitting on the board next to us was Robert B. Tanner, the tournament director, who later became a USCF National Director. (You know Bob.) He looked over and said, 'Yes, that's checkmate all right.' I held out my hand to shake the hand of my opponent, but he dropped his pen on the board, got up and walked out and never came back to play the next round. Not very sportsmanlike. Great game, Hank! I will now go set up my chessboard and play through it!