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Online Tournament 19th April Review 4月19日比赛回顾

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SCA’s students are getting better at tactics!

 

Every Sunday SCA Chess Academy from Shanghai organizes an online tournament on www.chesskid.com to provide students an opportunity to put their learned skills to test.

Last Sunday’s tournament was attended by 39 students and was played with a new time control of 8 minutes + 2 seconds increment per player, allowing the tournament to go 6 rounds.

Eva Han ( SHSID-EvaH )  –  Donald Wen ( SUIS-DonaldW )

In this position, second placed Eva Han is playing with white. Donald mistakenly left the a4-pawn unprotected playing 1…Rc4? (1…Ra1 would have been a better choice). Perhaps Donald was counting on the resulting pin. Nevertheless, Eva found the way to refute Black’s intent: 2.Rxa4 Bc3 putting pressure on the pinned piece 3.Ra7+! and getting out of the pin by giving a check 3…Kg8 4.Nd4 The Black pawn is gone, and the worst is already behind Eva.
Results

 

The first three places went to:

1. Oscar Yasunaga ( ExtraMaestro ) SCA Chess Academy

2. Eva Han ( SHSID-EvaH ) SCA Chess Academy

3. Donald Wen ( SUIS-DonaldW ) SCA Chess Academy

Congratulations to the winners!

Number of students from each team:
  • SCA Chess Academy – 33 students
  • Azerbaijan – 4 students
  • Philippines – 1 students
  • Poland – 1 students
SCA’s students are getting better at tactics!
Here we present some interesting moments from the games to inspire you to keep on improving.

Ethan Zhu ( SAS-EthanZ )  –  Oscar Yasunaga ( ExtraMaestro )

In this position the winner of the tournament – Oscar Yasunaga – found a fantastic tactical blow that let him simplify and win the game.1…Rxc3! Leaving the queen under attack. 2.Rxa3 Rxc1 3.Kh2 Rh1!+ Black lures the White king onto the “deadly” h1-square. 4.Kxh1 Nf2+ 5.Kg1 Nxd3 Regaining the sacrificed queen. 6.Rxd3 bxa4 The resulting endgame seems helpless for White since Black is up two connected passed pawns.

Donald Wen ( SUIS-DonaldW )  – Michael Jiang ( SCIS-MichaelJ )

In this game Donald Wen (white) – who placed third in the tournament chose the Smith–Morra Gambit. White sacrificed a pawn for quick development in the opening. Black just played 1…Nf6 (1…e6 is better) falling into a well-known trap. 2.e5! Nxe5?? This move loses by force. The last chance for Black was 2…dxe5 3.Qxd8 Nxd8 (3…Kxd8 4.Ng5 taking the f7-pawn next move) 4.Nb5! with evident compensation for the sacrificed material. 3.Nxe5 dxe5 4.Bxf7!! The Black king is lured to f7, and White takes the unprotected queen on d8. 4…Kxf7 5.Qxd8 +-