Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Chess in the time of cholera

The ACTCA Chess Association, along with the ACT Chess Clubs, have decided to suspend all chess events for the foreseeable future. This also includes Street Chess, which will not be running this Saturday (and future Saturdays for the time being).
However, the ACTCA is looking for a replacement to keep everyone connected, in the shape of online events. 
The first test event was run this evening, in the form of an invitation event on lichess.org. While the tournament ran well enough, the 'Arena' format that lichess uses is probably not suitable for what we are looking for (set number of rounds, normal swiss pairings). The next test event will probably be on chess.com on Thursday, and if that works, then we are looking to hold evening events through the week.
Here is one of the games from the tournament, played between the top 2 finishers.

Yin, Wenlin - Press, Harry [C77]
Hodges Arena, 2020.03.17

Start positionPrevious MoveNext MoveEnd positionPlay movesStop playing
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. d3 O-O 8. Bg5 d6 9. Nc3 Bb4 10. Bd5 Bd7 11. O-O Qe7 12. Nh4 Nd4 13. Qd1 c6 14. Bb3 Nxb3 15. axb3 h6 16. Bd2 Bxc3 17. bxc3 Nxe4 18. dxe4 Qxh4 19. f3 f5 20. exf5 Bxf5 21. Be3 Qf6 22. Qd2 d5 23. Ra5 Qg6 24. Rfa1 Bxc2 25. Rxa6 Rxa6 26. Rxa6 Bxb3 27. h3 Bc4 28. Kh2 b4 29. Rb6 b3 30. Bc5 Ra8 0-1

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