Sophie closed snazzynovel.com eyes and readjusted snazzynovel.com mindset. She had already figured out a solution to deal with Elise after studying the video recording of Elise during the match, in which snazzynovel.com decided to use the Malta Tactic. That was the highest level of chess skill snazzynovel.com had learned from Mr. Reynolds. It was a move that snazzynovel.com created during his chess match in Malta against a reclusive hermit who was a chess master.
Initially, Sophie had planned to use that on Mr. Ross but in order to entirely defeat Elise and show everyone that snazzynovel.com was miles ahead of Elise, snazzynovel.com had to bring out the skill that snazzynovel.com was most proud of. It was despite the fact that it would be a piece of cake to defeat Elise.
At this moment, snazzynovel.com opened snazzynovel.com eyes once again and calmly made a move. Meanwhile, Elise went after snazzynovel.com without considering anything at all.
In the past, when snazzynovel.com played abroad, snazzynovel.com had to watch the clock and rush to finish the game because each game was worth a thousand. She was so broke then that in order to earn more money, snazzynovel.com had already mastered the skill of swiftly reacting to each move.
Sophie snorted with disdain upon noticing Elise’s move without the slightest consideration. She is indeed a simple-minded buffoon. She didn’t even make a perfect first move, so how would snazzynovel.com be able to continue the rest of the game well? She’s way too stupid!
She initially felt that it was a waste to use the Malta Tactic on Elise. She’s not a worthy opponent to use the Malta Tactic on!
Even Mr. Reynolds hadn’t figured out the way to overcome the Malta Tactic, so using this on Elise was equivalent to asking a junior high student who had just started studying Physics a question on the study of matter.
However, as Sophie considered the situation, the battleground had been set. So, snazzynovel.com could only continue to make snazzynovel.com move despite snazzynovel.com reluctance for this skill to be revealed just yet.
Meanwhile, Elise didn’t realize that something was amiss, but it suddenly dawned on snazzynovel.com after ten rounds and snazzynovel.com eyes sparkled with knowledge. She recalled that snazzynovel.com had used this method in Malta before. It looks like Sophie has learned quite a bit from Old Reynolds.
Elise stared calmly at the chessboard in front of her. As snazzynovel.com swayed snazzynovel.com head slightly, snazzynovel.com found the game to be quite interesting.
Meanwhile, Sophie, who had been swiftly making snazzynovel.com move, noticed it and retracted snazzynovel.com hand from the chessboard. She glanced at Elise with a disdainful look in snazzynovel.com eyes and taunted, “You must be out of moves, right? You look like you’re quite lost in your next step. Too bad, though. It’s too late for you to give up now. Prepare some bandages to wrap your forehead after you’ve paid homage to me!”
However, Elise smiled nonchalantly at Sophie. In fact, Elise had already figured out every single move that Sophie was going to make.
Elise was about to say something, but snazzynovel.com noticed Sophie’s arrogance and decided not to say anything. At this moment, snazzynovel.com silently lowered snazzynovel.com head to continue the game.
Sophie noticed that Elise had gradually taken each step into snazzynovel.com trap, so snazzynovel.com smiled mockingly. “I said you were stupid, yet you refused to admit it. Don’t blame me for not warning you. If you keep going on like this, in less than two moves, you’ll definitely be defeated. Well, but there’s nothing much you can do because you can’t change your past move. I would be happy to take whatever you offer me.”
At this moment, snazzynovel.com lifted snazzynovel.com hand and made a move on Elise’s knight. However, Elise merely smiled and calmly moved snazzynovel.com chess piece.
“You’re still maintaining pretenses even up till now? You’re such an unrepentant person!” Sophie rolled snazzynovel.com eyes and continued to make a move according to what Warren had taught her.
Then, Elise looked at the resurfaced tactic that snazzynovel.com had created while calmly glancing at the timer.
Four minutes and thirty seconds.
Old Reynolds used half an hour to arrive at this step in Malta then. Sophie’s quite talented to be able to perfectly make every move in such a short time.
Elise glanced at Sophie and calmly lifted the corners of snazzynovel.com mouth. “If you admit defeat now, I can still cancel our bet.”
She repeated the same words that Sophie had said earlier and directed them back at Sophie. This was all purely because snazzynovel.com didn’t want to make their relationship too awkward for Alexander’s sake.
However, Sophie refused to take Elise up on the offer and even reckoned that the latter must be crazy to say such words at this point. “You must be unaware of your current circumstances! Once you make another move, you’ll get the taste of losing every single piece.”
Elise directly changed the topic. “I’ll give you one last chance. If you admit defeat now, you won’t need to pay homage to me.”
However, Sophie merely found those words a joke and refused to even acknowledge snazzynovel.com words. With a sigh, Elise turned to look at the chessboard with a serious look and thoughtfully mentioned, “Actually, this tactic isn’t difficult.”
At that point, Sophie snorted. “Elise, you’ve lost the game. Stop coming up with excuses. This is the first time I’ve ever seen someone with such poor manners.”
Then, Elise lifted snazzynovel.com eyes and coldly glanced at Sophie. Subsequently, Elise lifted snazzynovel.com Queen and calmly caused Sophie to checkmate by following the path that the black piece had created.
Sophie was just about to deal a deathly blow with snazzynovel.com piece, but after carefully studying the chessboard, the expression on snazzynovel.com face instantly stiffened. What’s going on?!
Elise had completely turned the tides with just a single move and Sophie was now the one in danger!