In last Saturday’s club meeting “the pin” was discussed in the beginners group. We were glad to welcome Christopher as our new member in this group and together with Mikael, Julien, James and Kaiden some really decent chess was played. The group is picking up and as a whole seems to be heading towards a higher plateau: developing towards the center, castling and no early queen ventures all around the board has become common good.

In the advanced group smothered check mate was discussed after which 2 games were played in the 3rd round of the Spring 2013 competition. Miguel Angel defeated Chor Wei and Mei Jing beat Max who joined from the Intermediate group to try Advanced out.

 

 

Wilson and Bryant did not have time to play their competition match but they did get their practice with casualquick games: Bryant tried his luck against Mei Jing and Wilson played against Richard Takasumi who paid a quick visit as guest. With the move of the Takasumi family to Discovery Bay we look forward to see Richard become member too!