World #1 for six minutes: my claim to fame?

Well, no, not really. Alas, I don't actually have a claim to fame. And whilst in the loosest of senses I was #1 for six minutes, it is not in a very important way; in fact, in a very trivial way. But being the wrong side of 50, one has to clutch at straws, however flaky.

Playchess.com, where I play most of my 3 minute per player blitz chess, has recently added to its homepage the board on its site. I suspect the algorithm is something to do with the combined rating of the two players, or maybe the rating of the higher played, but yesterday I was that player/that pairing.

(The astute reader will see that I have used all the imagination of a chartered accountant in devising my pseudonym: allanbeard )

Oh, and I didn't even get a full six minutes of fame, because my opponent resigned in the above position. So, I have now summited my personal Everest. Perhaps I should change my name to something beginning with K?

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