“Rg6+.”

I spotted his plan immediately: rook sacrifice, then discovered check, skewer, and finally mate. A brilliant, inescapable plan.

I sighed and softly tipped my king over. Obviously I had vastly underestimated my opponent.

Don, for his part, was taken aback, since he could only see a potential rook trade.

Nelson Scott is a student who is brand new to writing fifty-word stories, and thus has no idea what he’s diving into whatsoever.