Every Sunday SCA Chess Academy from Shanghai organizes an online tournament on www.chesskid.com to provide students with an opportunity to put their learned skills to test.
Last weekend’ international tournament took place on the 5th of April. 62 students joined from three different countries: China, Latvia, and Azerbaijan. The time control was 10 minutes + 2 seconds and participants played 5 rounds.
Results
This time both of the first two places were taken by students of SCA Chess Academy! Third place went to a student from Azerbaijan.
Congratulations to the winners!
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Upcoming tournament
On Sunday the 12th of April SCA Chess Academy organises another online tournament. It is a good opportunity to get more experience and play against players worldwide. If you would like to be a part of it please register 15 minutes before the tournament starts! If you have never participated in our Sunday tournament please register through the following form and we will add you to the SCA Chess Academy club on Chesskid.
The tournament will take place at 18:30 Shanghai time, on Sunday the 12th of April. Happy Easter!
Games
Once again, we would like to present you some interesting moments from the games We hope that they will inspire you to play better and better
Oscar Yasunaga (ExtraMaestro) – AZE-TeimurG
This game was played by the winner of the tournament – Oscar Yasunaga. With white pieces Oscar chose the Grand Prix Attack and quickly seized the initiative on the king-side. . In the game he demonstrated a brilliant attack on the castled king which started with the move 1.f5! This move opens up two white bishops for the cost of just a pawn. 1…exf5 (1…gxf5 is not any better in view of 2.Bg5 fxe4 3.Nxe4 winning the f6-knight) 2.Bg5 First the bishop comes into action and pins the knight on f6threatening – Nd5. 2…h6 (suicide, 2…Be6 could have put more resistance, for example: 3.exf5 gxf5 4.Rae1 with strong initiative) 3.Bxh6 Bxh6 4.Qxh6 Nh7 5.Qxg6!+ taking advantage of the second bishop that pins a pawn on f7. Queen can take a free pawn. The Black king became too exposed, no wonder it took Oscar only 5 moves to finish off the game by checkmate.
Lucas Granucci (SAS-LucasG) – AZE-Ayankh
In this position white – Lucas Granucci – the winner of second place in the tournament used the fact that the black king was exposed in the endgame. He has also demonstrated how pieces (two rooks and a bishop) should cooperate together in order to win material. 1. Kf8?, the g8 was the only safe square for the Black king. Now the second rook also joins the attack on the Black king.2.Rf1+ Ke8? (again 2…Kg8 was a better option) 3.Bg6+! now the bishop comes to attack the king 3…Rf7 black had to give up his rook to protect the king. 4.Rh8+ Kd7 5.Rxf7+ the white rook takes the black rook with a tempo 5…Kc6 6. Rxd8! White has a completely winning position.
AZE-NarminG – SVK-XiaohanL
In this position white – AZE-NarminG – a player from Azerbaijan who took third place demonstrated a winning technique in the endgame. He is already up an exchange and he has a very strong passed pawn on c6. The white rook on c1 is situated behind the passed pawn which is very favourable for white. So, when you have a passed pawn you should push it! 1.c7 the further the passed pawn gets the more dangerous it becomes. 1…Ne8 2.Rd8 Rxc7 black doesn’t have any other choice than to give up a rook for a strong pawn on the 7th rank 3.Rxe8+ white takes a knight with a tempo first Kh7 4.Rxc7. White has a winning endgame.
