Hellbent

Last night in chess, I goofed and Ben's queen skewered both my rooks. There was nothing I could do to save both of them, so I positioned my bishop to A6.. (damn, I should have taken a picture) .. so that it'd be in position to pressure his king, which hadn't castled. My queen also had open floor to the king. In my offensive haste, I forgot that my king would have to deal with check after he took my first rook, allowing him to take my other rook! (which had just taken out a key pawn of his). I thought the game was done. But my bishop and queen were giving his king such hell. I had dispatched of his key pawn to protect his king, so there was nothing he could do about my bishop. I wasn't able to checkmate him, of course, since he had two rooks and a queen now protecting his king. But despite this immense power, I was being such a nuisance! My pawns and maybe a knight were positioned such that my king was well protected. It was an unconventional game in that he took one of my bishops early in the game to cause stacked pawns. I kept putting him in check. Started moving one of my pawns for another queen. He finally got an opportunity to pressure my bishop out of there, and put me in check with his queen, but my bishop was prepared for this and moved in front of my king to threaten his queen. He was so exacerbated by my bishop at this point and had such a material advantage that he took my bishop with his queen! He failed to take into account that his king was blocking his rook to my advanced pawn's landing square for Queening, and that he would not have enough time to prevent it. He resigned.

It was sheer astonishment and amusement that my bishop could have caused him so much grief that he'd sacrifice his queen to get rid of it--never seen such absurdity in chess before. I've likewise never seen a bishop be so powerful.