Thread by @brterry17

@3Days3Nights After this post, I went back and reviewed the game and have a few thoughts for those who might have forgotten by now or are unfamilar with chess.

1. This game was AMAZING and incredibly intense. There was nothing ordinary about any of it.

@3Days3Nights 2. Capablanca means Whitehat. He was playing white.

Marshall had developed a brilliant attack strategy, then saved it for EIGHT years until the time and opponent was right.

(How long had Obama been working his part of the takeover again?)

@3Days3Nights 3. The game begins like normal but Black knows what White is going to do in advance. The opening moves are typically easy to predict in Chess.

Obama just spied on Trump instrad.

@3Days3Nights 4. After a few initial moves, Black is the first to diverge from the expected course. They make a move that leaves them open to a small attack and it is right out there in the open for the whole world to see. White obliges.

(Hillary's emails?)

@3Days3Nights 5. Black makes a few more moves then throws a valuable piece out there as a sacrifice. This move is a trap and the game ends rather quickly if you take it.

@3Days3Nights 6. This move begins a serious onslaught. White is constantly being attacked from all sides. Any wrong move will immediately end the game.

White can do nothing but play defense. The King is always in precarious position and eventually runs away to get safe.

@3Days3Nights 7. Both sides execute a series of brilliant moves & a few pieces are sacrificed to each other until the White King is finally safe.

White must still carefully defend, but for the first time, he can now make a move that helps with offense and defense.

He moves his Bishop to D5.

@3Days3Nights 8. As far as the game goes, D5 is hardly the most critical or exciting move and the critics do not reference it much, but it does represent a turning point in the game where White is no longer playing 100% defense.

@3Days3Nights 9. He has withstood the worst of the attack and is still in good position.

Now as fends off the last of the attacks, he gets stronger and Black gets weaker.

@3Days3Nights 10. Black makes one last attack and for the first time, White no longer defends. White responds with a counter attack and the game is over.

@3Days3Nights 11. There are two other important items to consider. First, near the end of the game, White has a few pieces which have not been used. Once the King is safe, they are finally freed.

@3Days3Nights 12. We should always be on alert for those loyal to the cause but that have not been part of the game yet. We should start seeing some of these begin to appear now.

@3Days3Nights 13. Second, the style of this game was never about White attacking and demolishing Black with their perfect moves.

This game was about a brilliant defense against an attack strategy nobody had ever seen before.

@3Days3Nights 14. This attack plan was created long before this game ever started and was saved for just the right opponent.

This attack strategy succeeds against the impulsive and those who do not see 10 moves in advance.

@3Days3Nights 15. It is easy to see why they wanted to use it against Trump and why they thought it would work.

We are witnessing this game, played out in real life, and it is almost over now.

Fantastic time to be alive!

@3Days3Nights Just a brief addendum to this point.

It has been noted that better translations exist than hat. After looking into it, I agree but have heard it used that way in the past.

It seems that word meaning would be more Spanglish than Spanish if that changes things for anyone.