Originally posted by Dance Master MC
Can somebody start the beggining of a cool story, and then somebody else can add a maximum of one paragraph to the end of where the last person left off.
she walked into the auditorium where the state finals would be held carrying her board and staunton pieces and clock in her neat carrying case, a present from her chess master father. this would only be her third tournament. the first was at the summer youth camp. the second was for her high school championship, which she won with a score of 7-0-2. the tournament matching board showed that she was paired with an expert (2165). Still the early rounds got her rated at 1750, way over-inflated as far as she was concerned. this would be awful, she thought, as she found her table (#18). Her opponent, the expert, glanced up from his board and clock that he had already set up and gasped.
