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Twas the night before the World Open and all thru the 'Mark
Not a hustler was stirring - they're still at the park;
All the sandbaggers were hung on the pre-reg on the door
In hopes that Saint Bill would not raise their floor;
The class players were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of $10K danced in their heads;
And From with his Gambit and I with my lesson
Had just settled down for any early summer session,
When out on the floor there arose such a clatter
I sprang from the board to see what was the matter,
Away to the TD room I flew like a flash,
Tore open the door and gazed at the cash.
Of course at the heart of my long-term strife
My picture unseen in 38 years of Chess Life.
But what to my wandering eyes should there be,
But a portable computer and eight tiny TD,
With a thin wiry ED, so lively, not still,
I knew in a moment it must be Saint Bill.
More rapid than dragons his judges they came,
And he whistled and shouted and called them by name:
Now, Steve! now, Sophia! now, Dana and Harold!
On, Walter! on, Mike! on, Ernie and Carol!
To the top of the GM room! To the demo boards on the wall!
Now rule away! Rule away! Rule away all! ...
Copyright 2004-2005 by Dan Heisman, all rights reserved.
About the Author
Dan Heisman is a full-time
chess instructor and author. He is a rated master by the US Chess Federation
and also a Senior Tournament Director. He serves as the Scholastic
Coordinator for
SE Pennsylvania
for the PA State Chess Federation. Mr. Heisman’s chess books include Elements
of Positional Evaluation, The
Improving Annotator, Everyone's 2nd Chess Book, The Traxler Counterattack,
The Computer Analyzes the Fried Liver/Lolli, A Parent’s Guide to Chess,
Looking for Trouble and in 2005, an 8th book on beginning
tactics. He has written many articles for various sources, including Chess
Life, the on-line magazine Chess
Café, and JeremySilman.com.
Mr. Heisman has been granted several awards by the Chess Journalists of
America (CJA) for his fiction and non-fiction, including "Best
Instruction" twice for his world-famous Chess Café Novice
Nook column. In 2005 Novice
Nook was voted the Cramer Award for "Best Column, any Media".
In 2002 Mr. Heisman began his chess talk radio show, "The Renaissance
Man" for http://www.chess.fm, which
currently airs Thursday evenings at 9 PM Eastern. He is a member of the
International Computer Game Association, and worked at both the Kasparov
vs. Deep Blue matches. You can e-mail him at danheisman@comcast.net
or visit his web site at http://www.danheisman.com/.
Mr. Heisman currently lives with wife Shelly, and dogs Brynn and Patches in
Wynnewood,
Pennsylvania.
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