The following position was reached in the final game of the Final of the Aimchess US Rapid.
World Champion Magnus Carlsen was playing White against the young Russian Vladistav Artemiev; Black has just played Ng4 pinning Carlsen’s Queen.
There is only one winning move, can you find it?
White to Play
Our game this week was played over the board, not in a big international event, but in the 1st round of the 2021/2 Swale Chess Championship.
Both players are well known to me – with the White pieces is youngster Eli Gallamoy and with Black the current Swale Chess Champion David Page.
This was Eli’s first competitive game using a clock and, it is fair to say, that Time Management is the only weak link in his chess armoury
White: Gallamoy, Eli Black: Page, David
Swale Championship Round 1 – Sittingbourne – 26th August 2021
Game in 60 minutes + 15 seconds per move increment
Great news is that Broadstairs Chess Club should soon be meeting on a Monday evening again. It has been a very long time since chess players have enjoyed ‘proper’ over the board games.
Although online chess has been a great benefit to us all it just isn’t the same.
More details to follow as soon as we have the date of our first meeting since the Pandemic started
Playing White was young local talent Eli Gallamoy: with his Queen under attack how does the 11 year old continue the game?
White to Play The game continued
a very nice finish
I have already mentioned the fantastic London Chess Festival, held last weekend in glorious sunshine. One of the highlights was a Blitz challenge match between chess prodigies 12 year old Shreyas Royal, playing in Trafalgar Square and 10 year old Tani Adewumi playing from his home in New York
Both players were fantastic, Shreyas undoubtedly had more pressure, with a noisy crowd urging him on, in fact he declined a draw by repetition to give the thousands watching a more exciting game
Here is our Game of the Week
White: Royal, Shreyas Black: Adewumi, Tani
UK v USA Blitz Challenge – Trafalgar Square 18th July