Pacific Southwest Scholastic Championships!
Craziest Game
From this position (with Caleb playing Black) there followed 4 checks out of 5 possible! This is a very rare occurrence in chess! There followed 20. Re1+ (+ at the end of a move means check) Ne6+ (counter check!) 21. Ke2 Nd4+ (that’s 3) 22. Kf1+ (counter check again!! And that’s 4).
From this position (with Caleb playing Black) there followed 4 checks out of 5 possible! This is a very rare occurrence in chess! There followed 20. Re1+ (+ at the end of a move means check) Ne6+ (counter check!) 21. Ke2 Nd4+ (that’s 3) 22. Kf1+ (counter check again!! And that’s 4).
Best Game of the Tournament goes to Ben Wolfe! (below)
In this position (below), Ethan Yao (playing Black) was able to do a very cool fork that helped him eventually win the game! Can you find it?
Photos from the Event
Caleb Winner of the craziest game award!!
Evelyn trophy for 5th overall, Evelyn played in the highest section and still took home a trophy!!
Michael Shea's trophy, he only lost one game the entire tournament!!
Oleksii's trophy. This was one of his first tournament but he's proven to be a force not to be reckoned with already!
Seamus Brown, who started out with an amazing 3/3!