The chess grandmaster

Twilight was awaiting on her armchair in the reading room while Anon was setting everything up on the tea table. Anon once again analysed what had just happened and thought that this was going to be a long night. At least he was going to have some fun

"So this game is called chess and the rules are..." Anon went on for fifteen minutes while Twilight was carefully listening to every single one of his words. Twilight's mood changed slightly as for now a small smiled appeared on her face. This was not a good sign for Anon.

Anon played for the whites so he chose a typical aggressive strategy as anyone else would do. He decided to 'babymate' her since he had nothing to lose and wanted to finish this quickly. Anon moved the pawn, Twilight copied his move, Anon moved his bishop, Twilight copied again.

"The ones who copy always lose" Anon thought to himslef.

However after Anons move with the queen Twilight opened up her flank in between the pawn line, thus leaving her king defeseless.

"A piece of pie" Anon smirked.

"Don't rush at conclusion" Twilight said with a devious grin.

"Did you play chess before?" Anon asked.

"No! Not even heard of it," Twilight defended herself.

"Fine then" Anon said while loosing his confidence, his hands were shaking when he was making his last move before the checkmate.

"But I know a quite similar game," Anons eyes almost popped out when Twilight said this. His bishop and queen were so vulnerable and unprotected that if Twilight counter attacked he would surely lose his dominance on the field.

"Don't worry, I was never goo at it anyway," Twilight giggled.

"Stop fooling with me and make your move please," Anon felt nervous, what if she defeats him?

Twilight carefully picked her own queen and slowly moved it to Anons home front, not only her queen was protected by a pawn and her bishop, but now she took control of the entire centre of the battle ground, which means she threatened to check Anons king, she could now take out Anons bishop, she could relieve her defences. The possibilities were endless... With a single, light and swift move Twilights 'froce of darkness' turned from the prey into the hunter.

Anon gasped in surprise awaiting for his end he took the leftover of his armies back into the home front for preparations of defence, leaving the queen as a trophy for Twilight. God, she did enjoy it when she swiped this behated figure from the field.

Anon was too slow on preparation of defence, he was not even able to complete the castling. Twilight took out everything she had and supressed any of Anons opposition, she was even able to bring out her rook which was almost never done at the first phase of the game.

Twilight looked into Anons eyes, she saw that he was visually begging her for mercy.

"Anon must learn to respect any opponent that he faces. Strong or weak, big or small, expirienced or just a beginner. This will be a good lesson for him," Twilight thought when she savagely knocked out Anons king whith her knight and proclaimed herself the winner of this battle, It lasted for about five minutes which was highly unusual for such a skilled player as Anon.

Anon carefully rechecked if there were any possibilities to let his king escape, if Twilight made a mistake, but Anon was very soon to be disapointed by the fact that there was no escape for him and that he had suffered a humiliating defeat.

"Hey, I won! I beated you at your own game! I thought it would be harder and would require some intellect, well a deal is a deal, you must keep your word," Twilight screamed at the top of her voice with the purest form of excitment, as if she had just passed her yearly conclusion exams.

Anons face turned steaming red, he just wanted to beat himself up until he was bleeding dry, his teeth were laying all over the floor and until he would lose his consciousness all because he just let a beginner defeat him so easily.

"When?" Anon groaned like a bear, Twilight surely understood his anger and dissatisfaction.

"Since I am very tired right now, I can't find any better time for a massage," Twilight said still with excitment in her voice.

"You said that you did not know how to play chess or your similar game properly" Anon said with now a much calmer voice.

"It depends on how you look at it, heh," Twilight chuckled. "I was not a champion among the students of the royal academy, I usually would get bronze places, rarely I would get any gold,"

Anons eye brows started twitching and his face looked as if he was about to explode. If this was an good ol' 1980 cartoon then there would be steam coming out of Anons ears while making a train whistling noise.

"Look on the bright side, you weren't defeated by a beginner, but by a three year in a row grandmaster champion! Erm... alright I love this game!" Twilight tried to soothe Anons shock.

"What is your game called?" Anon asked, now calming down.

"Royal clash, the only difference is that we have Celestias army instead of the white figures and Lunas army instead of the black figures."

"Makes sense... Well what are we waiting for?" Anons enthusiasm had returned to him.

"So you are not mad at me?" Twilight asked curiously.

"As long as I will have a rematch!"

Both the pony and the human laughed for a bit. Anon was right, this game did make Twilight feel much better and forget about her tiredness, in fact she enjoyed shredding Anons helpless army into pieces. Even Anon had some fun, he did not face a true rival for such a long time.

He would have a rematch very soon, next time he will show his full potential...