Feb 28 Results and problems (corrected)

Results
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