Jr High Chess League 2020 Schedule

Scroll down to find some interesting postions from Jan  24, 2020. Or look at the previous blogs - there are some good problems from last year.

Results (corrected)

Friday Jan 24 at Friendly Hills 3:40-6:15
  ROUND 1 MetcA 5 Heritage 0, FHMS 3.5 Faithful Shepherd 1.5,  MetcB 5 MetcC 0
  ROUND 2 Heritage 1 MetcC 4, FS 1 MetcB 4, MetcA 5 FHMS 0

Team      Match Games
Metcalf A  2-0 10.0-0.0
Metcalf B  2-0  9.0-1.0
Metcalf C  1-1  4.0-6.0
FHMS       1-1  3.5-6.5
FaithShep  0-2  2.5-7.5
Heritage   0-2  1.0-9.0

Remaining Schedule
Friday Jan 31 at Friendly Hills 3:40-6:15
  ROUND 3 MetcB vs Heritage, MetcC vs FHMS, FS vs MetcA
  ROUND 4 FHMS vs Heritage, MetcB vs MetcA, MetcC vs FS

Friday Feb 7   at Metcalf  3:40-6:15
  ROUND 5 Heritage vs FS, MetcA vs MetcC, FHMS vs MetcB
  ROUND 6 Heritage vs MetcA, FS vs FHMS, MetcB vs MetcC

Friday Feb 14 no games

Friday Feb 21 at Metcalf  3:40-6:15
  ROUND 7 MetcC vs Heritage, MetcB vs FS, FHMS vs MetcA
  ROUND 8 Heritage vs MetcB, MetcC vs FHMS, MetcA vs FS

Friday Feb 28 at Heritage 3:40-6:15
  ROUND9 Heritage vs FHMS, MetcA vs MetcB, FS vs MetcC
  ROUND 10 FS vs Heritage, MetA vs MetcC, MetcB vs FHMS

PROBLEMS
1. DIFFICULT Here's an interesting position from Board 1 Shanmuka of Friendly Hills is playing White against Mayotte from Faithful Shepherd. Mayotte has just moved his bishop from h6 to e3. The f pawn is pinned and helpless. What's White's best move?

2.  EASY Here's a position where T. Spencer, as Black, had a checkmate in two, but he missed it and let Graham Styles of Friendly Hills fight on for another 20 moves. Can you find the mate in two?

3. EASY Heres a common error. Chase of Heritage made a mistake against David Santos of Metcalf, but David playing White didn't capitalize on it. What move should David have made?


4. MEDIUM Beckham from Heritage has just lost his rook on a1. Time to resign?

ANSWERS
1. c6!  wins the bishop because if Black does not take the pawn immediately, it queens.
2. 1. Nf3+ covers the escape square 2. Bd2 Qxd2#
3. e5 forking the Knight and Bishop.
4. Beckham didn't resign, but he missed a good move - Nbc3 wins the queen for a rook which would have evened the score.

RULES
1. All games must be notated.

2. We will play with the touch-move rule. If you touch a piece with the intent to move it, you must move that piece if it is legally possible to do so. If you touch an opponent's piece, with either your hand or your piece, you will be required to capture that piece if it is legally possible to do so.

3. All games will be played with a clock if we have enough. Bring your fully charged I-Pad and become familiar with the chess clock application, which you can find with the link in the upper right. Time control will be announced at the beginning of the round - probably 30 minutes with 5-second delay or 35 minutes with no delay. That means a game may last 1 hr 10 min. There is a link to a nice chess clock from our chess club blog.

4. Players will be assigned a board based on their rating. If a teammate is not present, all players move up one board and a sub will play on board 5. If a team is short a player or two, that team will forfeit the game. If both teams are short a player, both teams will forfeit the game. To win a match a team must score 3 or more points. If a team scores 2.5 points the match is considered a draw.