This week Heritage was playing with #1 #2 #3 #4 and 4 alternates
Friendly Hills had #1, #2, #3, #5, and #6. so both teams had their A-Team there.
Here were the results - Winner in Bold
FHMS Heritage
Luke 1014->1015 vs Maize 637->636
Shanmuka 890->862 vs Boomer 579->607
Elijah 786->788 vs Silas 431->429
Amanuel 606->579 vs Jackson 328->355
Sam 493->498 vs Dylan 211->206
Final Score FHMS 3-2 over Heritage
FHMS retains the ISD197 Championship trophy and also placed 2nd in the league.
Heres an interesting position from Maize vs Luke on board 1. Maize has just taken Luke's rook on f8.
Problem #1: Black's turn. What move should Luke make?
#2.
Problem #2. Here's an easier problem from Amanuel vs Jackson. Amanual gets his queen out before controlling the center with his knights and Jackson makes him pay. Where should the queen go to?
Answer to problem #1: This features a beautiful move known as a swischenzug move (German for in-between move.) If you prefer Italian, call it an "intermezzo". Here's the idea: we're going to capture the bishop - just not yet. We're going to slip in an "in-between move" (that's English). But the move has to be forceful or it won't work because the Bishop will get away. The move is cxd3. Luke saves his pawn, takes one of Maize's pawns and forces the queen to move. Next turn we might take the Bishop unless we find another zwischenzug. For example, if Maize plays Qe1, we might slip in d2 or Nc2 before we take his Bishop. (In the actual game, Luke made a lot of fine moves, but he did miss this one.)
Answer to problem #2: The queen must guard c2, so in this case Qd1 is best. Amanual played Qd3 which also guards c2, but that queen is getting onto the battlefield. Jackson played Ba6. Now what should Amanuel do? He should take the bishop, give up the c pawn and the rook and take the knight with his bishop. If that had happened, Amanual would be ahead by a small amount. Instead he blundered by moving Qe3. After the royal fork and trade, Jackson's bishop took the bishop, pawn and rook and Amanual resigned.
Round 10 FHMS lost to Metcalf B by a score of 0-5
Heritage beat Faithful Shepherd by a score of 5-0 by forfeit.
Luke 1015->1012 Harrison 1346
Shanmuka 862->857 Soren 1155
Elijah 788->773 Kenny 816
Amanuel 579->577 Mason 946
Sam 498->497 Owen S. 900
FINAL STANDINGS
Team Matches Games
Metcalf A 9.5- 0.5 45.0- 5.0
Metcalf B 8.5- 1.5 38.5-11.5
Metcalf C 6.0- 4.0 29.5-20.5
FHMS 4.0- 6.0 15.0-35.0
Heritage 2.0- 8.0 15.0-35.0
FaithShep 0.0-10.0 7.0-43.0
Outstanding Player Award Winners
Harrison Stage -95pts, Gerald Johnson-95 points, Owen Krick-85 pts, Jake Schoenbauer-85 pts, Mitch Kellen-85 points…These students all attend Metcalf Middle School
