First of all, I want to share with you my own chess experience this week. I took part in the Western Province Individual Blitz tournament on Thursday evening. I saw a couple of familiar faces faces from the previous tournaments I played in, and from the Western Province Individual Schools Tournament, that took place in Gansbaai in the July holiday. It was held at the Claremont Chess Club.
We played 7 rounds between 19:30 and 21:30! In this blitz tournament we had 3 minutes on the clock, with 2 seconds being added to your time (automatically) with every move that you make. I had a score of 1 out of 7! I only won my sixth match! But it was a good experience, and I enjoyed and learned a lot. It just goes to show - the more chess you play the better you will get, and the less chess you play (like myself), the rustier you get! :-) Back to the drawing board for me, as they say!
For more information, click here to go to the Western Province Chess website for more and up and coming WP chess events. Here are the photos that I promised. The rest you can find in another photo album in the right hand navigation bar.
The next one was an big ornament in the club:
Can anyone please remind me from what TV show this was from? Thx!
Send me an email: chess dot aristea at gmail dot com
Just to end off this post, just a easy puzzle to get your brains going:
Checkmate with a pawn!
:-)
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