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
Our last puzzle was played well over 100 years ago, to bring us bang up to date here is a puzzle from a game played this week.
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
Did you find the superb combination?
White to play
Using forcing moves we saw the brilliant
and whatever Black plays next White will play Bf4 mate