The exciting news was the announcement of our next event on
April 13th!
Pre-register by email or stop by the club for casual chess
on April 6th.
On April 13th – with a 6pm to 6:30pm registration – it will be a One – Night
tournament – all games in 15 minutes per side. 4 rounds!
This means the most any game can take is a half hour (30
minutes). This is the perfect opportunity for players of any strength to get
into a chess tournament and have some fun.
This is a ONE NIGHT tournament open to all that show up and
want to play. It will be a Swiss System format – which means – if you win your
first round, you will play someone else who won in the first round in the next
round. If you lost, you play someone else who lost.
In the later rounds, you will be playing players within the
same strength category you are. So have no fear, you will have fun every step
of the way; either learning by losing or something or teaching something by
winning.
Rounds will be (close to this anyway):
Round 1: 6:30 pm
Round 2: 7:15 pm
Round 3: 8:00 pm
Round 4: 8:45 pm
White to move and win! |
The tournament will definitely be over by 9:30 . So, this is a chance to get a lot of
exciting chess in one night! Get registered as soon as possible!
And now a puzzle to solve. White to play and either win or
get a nice advantage. You tell me which it is!
You gave it away with the caption on the diagram that reads, 'White to move and win!' haha. Anyways...
ReplyDeleteThe quickest mate
1 Bxg6 ... fxg6
2 Qxf8#
Or:
1 ... Nxg6
2 Rxg6+ ... hxg6
3 Rh8!! Now the mate is unstoppable and black can resign
Black is losing in all variations and can only prolong things. Didn't calculate the longest variation, but it's probably a mate in 9 or 10 and definitely starts with the Bishop taking on g6.