Know a great way to fuck yourself over in chess?

Counting on a victory that takes any more than 2 moves without checks.

You will not have full control, and that’s why it’s a great game. There will be an opportunity for counter-move. Invest the wrong stakes and one thing goes wrong? The resources in your plan are spent, and that’s your army. Once you’re not resilient enough to keep playing in the face of your own stupid, morale checks out too. Which is somehow worse. For some reason.

Anyway I say this because I engaged a situation that was a slow burn and I don’t want to spell it out but it took LOTS of patience and couldn’t work out better. World Major bib was on the line, but it’s now secured and mine — now going to Australia.

(Let’s GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)