Thursday, January 23, 2014

4: Chess @ PMC GYM - Wed 22 Jan 2014

A Ong and W Lim played 2 games of chess that afternoon. Ong played the Ruy Lopez against Lim, winning the game in a position that led to mate. Lim retaliated with the King's Gambit. But the game was discontinued due to GYM closing time.

An interesting position was arrived at in the second game with Black to move.

Friday, January 17, 2014

3: Chess Quadrangle - Fri 17 Jan 2014

The 4 protagonists turned up as planned for the Chess Quadrangle of former MOE officers.

The 1st pair to play was Woo Lam Sang vs William Lim. The result: Woo beat Lim.

The second pair was Albert Ong vs Donald Koh. The result: Ong beat Koh.

This interesting position arose in the middle game between Ong and Koh with White to move. How would you proceed?

Thursday, January 16, 2014

2: Chess @ Jalan Isnin - Thu 16 Jan 2014

Hahaha! W Lim turned up one day early for the Chess Quadrangle. Nevertheless, we played one game of chess. Lim opened with the King's Gambit which A Ong accepted. Finally, Lim had to resign as he was unable to stop Ong from promoting his queen rook pawn.

<<<: An interesting position in the middle game.

The game contd: pxp, Rxp.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

1: Chess @ PMC GYM - Wed 8 Jan 2014

William Lim & Albert Ong played 1 game of chess but were unable to finish the game as the speaker's message had gone into extended time.

Lim opened with the King's Gambit. Ong accepted. However, the game was abandoned at GYM closing time.