Protect Ya Neck

"The game of chess, is like a sword fight. You must think first, before you move."

Wu Chess was co-founded by GZA from Wu Tang Clan, and as part of his tour in Liverpool Leaf Cafe hosted a Wu Chess knockout-style competition with the final competitor winning the chance to play GZA genius.

This is an event i probably should have taken a tad more seriously as i had been excited about this for quite some time. But when a football team night out was arranged for the night before the big tourney ..... you can see my predicament. If only i was a strong enough person. In the words of Andy Grey, Stuart Hayes-Irvine take a bow son.

After what only could be concided as a heroic amount of beer and rum consumed, i mustered up whatever cognitive activity was left in my brain to come up with a plan as to how on earth in was going to tackle a chess tournement in six hours time. Three clear options seemed viable, the first being to eject everytime out of my body that had entered, the second to drink a copious amount of water and drown the evilness out and the third option to continue partying and ride out the storm. Tempting as the final option was i felt at the time water would come to my rescue.

Fast-forward 10.00am. Surrounded by hardened chess geeks...... Oh dear destroyed in the first round! Personal well done to Studog, semi final robbery.