World Championship: Sissy has a hand on the trophy

28 October 2024

Sissy keeps marching inexorably towards defending her title.

With another two impressive displays of patience and tactical skill, “Queen” Sissy extended her overall lead to 9-3-3 in the first-to-10 series of XMädn’s most prestigious event.

After only 15 of a maximum of 28 games, Sissy has a hand on the trophy and will now have at least seven opportunities to get the last win required to complete her second “Royal Triple Crown” – the first of which to come before the weekend.

At Monday Night MÄDNess, Game 15 turned out a quite remarkable game as by the 90-minute interval, each player had saved only one pawn.

Nici opened the score with her first violet pawn after 25 minutes followed by Sissy’s first yellow after 40 minutes and Harry’s first blue four minutes before the hour mark.

Once again, Sissy disturbed Nici’s and Harry’s collaboration attempts by switching her endorsing moves back and forth between her froggy daughter and her husband.

Right after the break, Nici was forced to save a green pawn before Sissy put in a sprint and saved her second and third yellow pawns within eleven minutes to start her first PWL after 1:46 hours of play.

Shortly afterwards, Sissy opted to save a pawn of her black allies who provided tremendous blocking throughout the game even though there were also incidents of “friendly fire” to overcome.

After 1:54 hours of play, Nici saved her second green pawn to stay alive in the game but only seconds later, under pressure from Nici’s second violet and Harry’s second blue pawn, Sissy threw a “2” to convert her second match point and complete her only PWL.

It was Sissy’s fifth win in a row and her eighth win in ten games. The evening before, she had become the first player to win four straight triple-threat single-game wins.

In Game 14 on Sunday evening, Nici seemed well on her way to stop her Mom’s winning streak when she saved her third violet pawn to start her first PWL after 1:20 hours of play. At that time, Sissy had one black and two yellow pawns saved while Harry’s houses were still empty.

14 minutes later, Nici had four PWL cut short, the fourth one two thirds around the track, and Sissy started a PWL on her own with her fourth yellow pawn.

Harry only got to save one pawn of each of his allied colours. When he soon realized pulling out a win would be a long shot, he turned to fully endorsing his froggy daughter. However, aided by smart blocking from her remaining black pawns, Sissy once again fought off collaborators.

With a lucky turn of two consecutive “6” followed by a “5”, Sissy got herself in match-point position. After 1:44 hours of play and with Nici two thirds around the track on her fifth PWL, Sissy completed her only PWL on a “2” with her third match point.

Aggregate score (first-to-10):
Sissy 9, Nici 3, Harry 3

Game 16 is scheduled for Thursday when the Germans celebrate their national holiday, the Day of German Unity. If still required, Game 17 and 18 shall be played on Sunday and at Monday Night MÄDNess.

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