Dear c6 pawn, little thing.
You arrived on the chess board at move 8, and surprised me staying there for the whole game, patiently waiting to promote.
You will be in my chess dreams tonight.
(Loosely based on Donner's a pawn poem, see below).
"Dear pawn on a5,
Sweet little thing, a rook's pawn you are, just one square is all you control. You're so small, almost nothing and throughout the game you've been standing there on your little place, but all that time my hope was built on you, and all my fearful hankering was for you. I did see you standing there, you little rascal. People thought, of course, it was the d5 pawn that it was all about, he drew their attention, they all looked at him, but you and I knew better, it was all about you, about you and you alone.
You've been waiting, you naughty boy, not wanting to come on, because you knew that all the time I was only thinking of you and that you didn't have to do anything at all, because I would be coming to you of my own. Little rook's pawn, you're free now. Go ahead, unspeakable bliss is waiting for you and me on a8. Thank you, you sweet little thing. I love you,
your King"
closetgrandmaster.blogspot.com/2008/02/sweet-little-pawn.html
You arrived on the chess board at move 8, and surprised me staying there for the whole game, patiently waiting to promote.
You will be in my chess dreams tonight.
(Loosely based on Donner's a pawn poem, see below).
"Dear pawn on a5,
Sweet little thing, a rook's pawn you are, just one square is all you control. You're so small, almost nothing and throughout the game you've been standing there on your little place, but all that time my hope was built on you, and all my fearful hankering was for you. I did see you standing there, you little rascal. People thought, of course, it was the d5 pawn that it was all about, he drew their attention, they all looked at him, but you and I knew better, it was all about you, about you and you alone.
You've been waiting, you naughty boy, not wanting to come on, because you knew that all the time I was only thinking of you and that you didn't have to do anything at all, because I would be coming to you of my own. Little rook's pawn, you're free now. Go ahead, unspeakable bliss is waiting for you and me on a8. Thank you, you sweet little thing. I love you,
your King"
closetgrandmaster.blogspot.com/2008/02/sweet-little-pawn.html