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Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!

What say you Brian?  In front of both people who visit this site, I challenge you to a high stakes game of "eschez."  The stakes, you ask?

  1. Bragging rights (to the winner, in case you weren't sure)
  2. Your manhood (figuratively speaking)
  3. Loser does 100 push-ups, has to be filmed and posted on this site.

The rules:

  1. No cheating

You up for it?  Good, then I say e4!

UPDATE: "Eschez" is a word Brian made up.  He thinks it's Spanish for chess, as in (with Antonio Banderas accent): "Would you like to play [dramatic pause] eschez?"

Posted Aug 27 2007, 02:22 PM by doug
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Attachment: doug_brian.jpg

Comments

claire wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 08-27-2007 6:35 PM

I love you Tio Brian but I must say: GO, DADDY, GOOOOOO!

clyde wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 08-28-2007 12:08 PM

Doug needs the exercise.  Go ahead, Brian.  Win this match and do us a favor, PLEASE!

Hmm, I wonder if baby Andrew can sit still on his Dad's back (to add more drama to the push-ups demo) while I'm filming the event...  I'm off to get the camera ready.  :)  

Jennifer Bringhurst wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 08-28-2007 12:31 PM

I'd like to see Doug squeeze out ten push-ups.  

Brian Taylor wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 08-29-2007 10:25 PM

You must be sucking the lead paint off your chinese made chess pieces.  You're going down, funny boy.

e5

doug wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 08-30-2007 12:32 AM

Ha!  He accepts!  Start practicing your push-ups, sucker.

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 *

Brian Taylor wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 09-01-2007 10:27 AM

Nc6

doug wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 09-01-2007 10:57 AM

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 *

Brian Taylor wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 09-05-2007 10:36 PM

bishop to h4.  I don't have a chess program installed to track notation, so I just make it up.  Let me know if my moves look illegal or even just ill-advised.  I'm sure it's just a problem of reading the notation upside-down.

Brian

doug wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 09-05-2007 11:44 PM

You have no bishop that can move to h4.  This is not going to go well for you.  Download and install ECTool - even if you don't use the e-mail portion of it, it's still a great program to keep track of your games.

doug wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 09-19-2007 8:33 PM

Come on Brian, keep it moving!

doug wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 09-24-2007 9:32 PM

Brian, it's been 17 days.  You remind me of Grandpa Jessie, "I'd rather owe it to you than cheat you out of it."

doug wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 10-09-2007 9:20 PM

Our game has resumed, and it's starting to get ugly.  Brian made an early error on move 6, costing him a rook on move 8.  However it's still close.  Well as close as can be expected anyway.  The graphic has been updated with the current game state.

[Event "Casual Game"]

[Site "E-mail"]

[Date "2007.08.27"]

[Round "*"]

[White "Taylor, Doug"]

[Black "Taylor, Brian"]

[Result "*"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 d5 5.Nxe5 dxe4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bxc6+ Bd7 8.Bxa8 Qxa8 9.d3 Bb4 10.O-O *

doug wrote re: Brian, I challenge you! Eschez or die!
on 10-18-2007 11:56 AM

I've updated the image in this post to reflect the current state of the game.  For those of you following along:

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 d5 5.Nxe5 dxe4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bxc6+ Bd7 8.Bxa8 Qxa8 9.d3 Bb4 10.O-O O-O 11.dxe4 Nxe4 12.Qxd7 Qd8 13.Qxd8 Rxd8 14.Nxe4 f5 15.c3 *

Brian (black) brought his pawn up to threaten my knight.  I responded by threatening his bishop.  He's already down in material, so would a trade be wise now?  I think not.  But since when has Brian been making wise moves in this game?

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