1. b4 Nf6 The Genevan Gambler Attack is a sharp and risky opening, so Black must be cautious. The Left Wing Butterfly Defence is not a usual reply, but serves well in this instance to introduce novices to the difficulty of unweighting dark squares in the event of a frozen Bishop, as GM Wolfgang Plausch's opponent unfortunately discovered in losing the 31st German Championship of 1884. 2. Bb2 e5 3. Nf3 g6 The unorthodox Rolling Barrel attack was pioneered by the Italian Mikko Scarlotti at the 1922 Nationals and, depending on White's response, can lead to the exciting Open Unflanked Carnival Combination ( with a temporarily frozen Knight on an unmoded square ) . 4. h4 d6 5. Qc1 Ng4 6. e3 Qg5! 7. hxg5 b6 8. Rh4 There was a very informative article by Dr. Nasal Splagbucket in ISRC Monthly ( September 2004 ) refuting the Inverted Columbus Combination. Splagbucket is of the opinion that Nc3 blocks the long diagonal by virtue of the fact that White has trumps. 8... h5 9. Qd1 Nxf2 10. Rc4 Under the "Magic Mirror" defence ( with the Rook on c4 cleverly blocking the mirrored Knight pairs on the b and f files! ) , all West facing Knights are temporarily frozen, preventing immediate material gain for Black. This only works because the Knight on b8 is not yet flexible, nor East facing ( as in the game attributed by legend to King Arthur against Merlin, AD866 ) . 10... a6 11. Kxf2 Bg4 The daring adventures of my Knight on f2 have come to a sudden end. It must be removed from the board, since my opponent has chosen to exercise his "Free Defrocked Knight Capture" option on this move ( usually allowed only once during the game, with written permission required from the chief adjudicator ) in view of the incredible pressure being exerted on his royal pieces. Note that the eleventh move brings us into the second Set of play. Following the completion of the first Set ( after move 10 ) , at this point the board is traditionally turned around, with both players switching sides to reduce any possible advantage due to seating position. Naturally, it is impossible to implement this over the internet and my opponent is slightly advantaged by this limitation. In France, the players also exchange the black and white pieces after every Set, to eliminate any advantage that might be mentally associated with a certain colour. This is referred to in SR Chess circles with the term "l'échange de couleur". Note that the board and piece position does not change, but merely the colour of the player's pieces. 12. Rxc7 Bg7 13. Na3 O-O The game is now entering the final thrilling stages of the Inverted Columbus. Now that White has the possibility of developing the Knight on a3 into an East Facing Knight ( with immediate modal privileges ) , the Iberian-Karkarese Gambit might no longer be a satisfactory conclusion to the I.C. combination, particularly because the game is already in the Second Set. 14. Nc4 Bxf3 15. gxf3 Ra7 16. Rc8 Nc6 17. d3 Kh7 18. b5 Under the fairly recent ( early 20th century ) Second Left Amendment to SR Chess rules ( Rule 56B, sub-section xvii, para 3, Revised Elementary Version ) , in the highly unusual event that a player has no legal moves, "the adjudicator shall grant the aforementioned player a 'free' move." This 'free' move is sometimes referred to by critics of this Second Left Amendment as the so-called 'cheat' move, although the term is misleading and entirely unfair to the player who plays this move. Before creating a position without any legal moves, a player must first create a Locked Board pattern, the difficulty of which cannot be underestimated. The "free" move is an appropriate reward for achieving this remarkable effect and under its provisions the player is permitted to move any piece to any square of the board. So it is obvious that because there is no legal move, my opponent's move is in fact fully legal. A long-standing practice requires both the Arbiter and the opponent to be blindfold during the placement of the 'free' move. When the blindfolds are removed, both the Arbiter and the opponent engage in an "Unlocked Board Identification Challenge" ( U.B.I.C. ) , to determine who can identify the free move first. An extraordinary Tea Break ( referred to as the "Free Move Tea Break" ) is first taken to allow the placing of bets on the outcome, a practice that has been revolutionized by internet betting. 18... Rxc8 19. bxc6 Rxc6 20. Qd2 Rac7 21. e4 Rb7 22. Bc1 Although only diagonal Bishop moves are allowed in Common Chess, certain combinations of perpendicular/horizontal moves are allowed in SRC - this move was a good example, as it was in fact Bb1 then Bc1 in the same move. 22... Ra7 23. Ba3 Rac7 24. Bxd6 Rc8 25. Bh3 Rc5 26. Bxc5 Rxc5 27. d4 Bh6 Despite being a legal move, the Lancelot Layover ( a variation of the Guinevere Assault ) is named after Thomas Malory Lancelot, whose name is closely associated with match fixing. Lancelot was so concerned about match fixing that he insisted on shuffling the pieces before placing them on the board, instead of afterwards as is usually the practice. Despite his apparent obsession with fair play, his own ethical standards were called into question numerous times, especially when he was indicted by the ISRCA Grand Jury for piece-tampering early in his career. When an alert adjudicator at the 1925 Swedish Open noticed that his pawns appeared to be prematurely weighted, it was discovered that the base of his pawns had been drilled and replaced with cheese. He was acquitted following an investigation, where he pleaded insanity. He did not deny drilling the holes and filling them with Swiss cheese, but claimed to have mistakenly confused his pawns with his wife's home-made bread rolls ( known to be rather hard ) . Since this time, however, regulations require that all pieces ( and the players ) are weighed by the adjudicator before the start of the game and conform to the limits prescribed in the ISRCA charts. Overweight pawns are confiscated, whereas overweight players are immediately placed under house arrest, then in solitary confinement in a sauna and on a high-protein diet. An international match involving Hirisaki Nagamuchi, a former Japanese sumo wrestler, was once delayed by six years until he satisfactorily met the weight requirements. By this time, his Mexican opponent had long since lost interest in the game and only after Nagamuchi had played 1.a4 was it discovered that his opponent had been admitted as a monk in a nearby Hindu monastery two years earlier and had no intention of completing the game, being more interested in Brahmin than bishops. 28. Qe3 Rxc4 29. Bg2 Ra4 30. Rd1 Move 30 is the final move before VH Conditions come into effect. Black's priority here is to increase his pawn weighting before the Final Set. Understanding the fundamentals of pawn weighting is one of the essentials that novices should master for effective strategy. An old but time-tested classic on the subject is Baron Karl Von Damm's excellent two volume German work "The Queen and her Pawns in Waiting: Understanding Weighted Pawns" ( Vol 1 ) , and Vol 2 "Understanding Unweighted Pawns", published in an English translation for the first time in 1906. The calculation of pawn weighting is allowed at any time during the game, as long as players limit themselves to using fingers and toes. Count Tyrone Rugen of Florin had the misfortune of having six fingers on his right hand, and was subsequently handed a lifelong ban from tournament SR Chess on the grounds that his biological abnormality gave him an unfair advantage in match-play. Upon appeal, this penalty was downgraded to a suspended sentence that would commence following his death. A recently published thesis by a Harvard post-graduate student has suggested that Count Rugen's excessive number of digits could not have benefited him anyway, due to the mathematical difficulties created by the number six in the decimal system that is in use for SR Chess. He also cited Rugen's low intelligence, based on findings of standardized government regulated math test results from Rugen's childhood. When calculating pawn weighting, Grandmasters typically use their toes rather than their fingers anyway, since it is extremely rare to have more than ten pawns of one colour on the board at any given moment. 30... a5 An "in-between" move, while waiting for VH Conditions to come into effect. This move completes the Third Set and after the mandatory Tea Break, the Final Set commences with VH Conditions now in effect and the possibility of winning by creating a Forced IMR. 31. gxh6 Capturing a rim Bishop creates The Collared Cleric board pattern ( condemned by Pope Bean VIII in his fourth encyclical entitled "On the Disrespect of Priests, Clergymen and Pawns in Publick Entertainment" ) and good chances for White to create a Forced IMR. 31... exd4 32. Qe1 d3 1-0 A classic "Unbearded Lance Thrust" ( so named due to the absence of supporting pawns ) , usually only played under VH Conditions. The ULT allows White to capitalize on an Unharried Royal Pattern ( quite different from the Unhairied Royal Pattern ) and Black must concede the game with an immediate Forced IMR allowed under this pattern. Note especially the alignment of White's King and Queen relative to Black's pawns on b6 and a5. For understanding the nuances of this Pattern, see "A Reexamination of Forced Inferior Material Resignations: A Guide to Winning Play under VollenHauser Conditions" by Leopold Strauss ( Belgrade Press, 1934 ) , chapter 21 "Winning Patterns with Unharried Royal Pieces."