Chess Update

On Wednesday, February 18, Trinity Chess took on Greenwood Chess.  Trinity prevailed by a score of 35 to 4.  One game that stood out to me was by Ryan Hart.  He was in a middle game with a slight lead in material.  Ryan’s opponent used a pawn to attack Ryan’s knight.  Ryan used the tactic of different threat levels, and attacked a higher value piece.  This went on for two or three more moves (Ryan kept making bigger threats), and then Ryan got checkmate.  The interesting thing was that the knight his opponent never had the time to take was instrumental in the checkmate!

 

On Thursday, February 19, Trinity Chess took on newcomer Pease Chess.  Similar to the day before, Trinity prevailed by a score of 31 to 8.  The game that stood out to me that day was by Nathan Makut.  Nathan was in the end game with a queen versus a rook, bishop and pawn (there may have been a few more pawns on the board, but basically it was an even end game).  Nathan had the correct plan of trying to use his queen to fork, skewer or pin his opponents king, rook, and/or bishop.  Nathan kept making threats, but his opponent kept seeing them and responding.  I was worried that Nathan would run out of time, but he finally got one of these tactics to work and won the rook.  Then he quickly captured the pawn(s) and bishop, and Nathan won the game with time to spare!

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