Chess Party in Stellenbosch

The chess party, organised by Chessmates-Skaakmaats was at Fandango on Sunday. People I knew previously who were in attendance: Anthony F. (who kindly provided me a lift there and back, and conversation on chaotic systems and computer models of human psychology, the fractal nature of plant life, and black holes and the entropy of the universe), John M., Mikhailo M., plus two people whose names I'll remember shortly - about 50% of the facebook confirmations. It was a cool, overcast afternoon, and hot chocolate was in order. For the first time I took down the moves of a game, as I've only played a handful of games since chess club in primary school. Playing against Anthony I forgot to take moves for a while (while tenaciously fending off attacks), but managed to write down the game against John without too many mistakes - which fortunately show up as invalid moves when you enter them on the computer. I downloaded Winboard/Xboard to record the game, and discovered it lets you play chess on the internet, against GNU Chess, or view games (save with a ".pgn" extension): [Event "Graham vs John"] [Site "Fandango, Stellenbosch"] [Date "2008.02.03"] [Round "-"] [White "Graham P"] [Black "John M"] [Result "1-0"] 1. d4 b6 2. e4 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. b3 Nxd4 6. Nxd4 Qe4+ 7. Be3 Bg4 8. Nf3 g6 9. Bd3 O-O-O 10. Nc3 Qb4 11. Qd2 Bg7 12. a3 Bxc3 13. axb4 Bxd2+ 14. Nxd2 Nf6 15. Be4 Nd5 16. O-O Nc3 17. f3 Bf5 18. Rxa7 Ne2+ 19. Kf2 Bxe4 20. Nxe4 Kb8 21. Ra6 f5 22. Ng5 f4 23. Nf7 fxe3+ 24. Kxe3 Kb7 25. b5 Nd4 26. Nxd8+ Rxd8 27. c4 Nc2+ 28. Kf2 Rd2+ 29. Kg1 c6 30. c5 cxb5 31. Rxb6+ Kc7 32. Rxb5 Ne3 33. Ra1 Rxg2+ 34. Kh1 Kc6 35. Rb6+ Kxc5 36. Re6 g5 37. Rxe3 g4 38. Kxg2 1-0 Tania organised the event, but couldn't make it due to an emergency.