Dusk: The Blahaj Chess Champion

Fun fact about Dusk: he’s actually really good at chess! In the featured photo for this blog, you can see him with a chess piece. My friend, Monky, gave it to me from her trip to Europe! The chess piece was for Dusk, the famous grandmaster, and he was so happy to get it. Every time he plays chess, he makes sure to swap out a white knight with this one, just so that he can play with Monky’s gift.

We’ve been talking about how good Dusk is, but he can walk the walk too!

Here, Dusk and I are playing a chess game together. It might be a bit hard to see what’s going on, but long story short, Dusk is about to checkmate me. After a long, arduous game, my king was in a bit of a precarious position. I thought I was safe because his queen was the only piece chasing after my king. However, Dusk suddenly threw his queen into my corner. He allowed her death but forced my king out. I was a few moves away from losing, considering that my position was now completely open and about to be swarmed by rooks, so I just resigned (see this game for more information!). It was an extremely impressive move on Dusk’s part, and he’s quickly on his way to becoming the world champion, so keep your eyes on your TV because one day, you’ll see Dusk on it! Dusk might beat me all the time at chess, but I still have fun.

Anyway, that’s it for this blog! If you want your own Blåhaj to play chess against, you can get one here! And I should reiterate, that I’m not sponsored by IKEA, I just really like their sharks.

And I usually don’t like asking for donations, but if you can afford to give anything, please do it here! Every cent goes straight to the blog, and I’d love for the website to keep growing so that more people can see Dusk! Anyway, thanks for reading! If you have any thoughts on Dusk’s chess skills or if you have your own grandmaster plushies that you’d like to talk about, tell me in the comments below!