Originally posted by RJHindsI know how you feel. I was squashed by Fabiano Carauna in about 20 moves when he was about 8 years old!
I seem to get beat all the time by these young kids. It makes an old man like me almost want to give up chess. But I still love the challenge, but with these young kids around they keep bringing my OTB rating down as theirs go up.
On this game that the 10 year old kid won, I decided to go back through and stop the video and record the moves. I had a little dificulty when the video went off the board and on the Kid. However, that was only for a couple of moves and I am pretty sure I filled in those moves correctly. When the game was finished I stopped the video to read the times left on the clocks and the kid still had 1 min 32 seconds and the IM had only 12 seconds remaining. I believe the mistake came on the 8th move even though the IM told someone he made a mistake on the 5th move.
[Event "3 min Blitz"]
[Date "2010.12.29"]
[White "IM Greg Shahade"]
[Black "Samuel Sevian"]
[Result "0-1"]