August Swiss

We had a small turnout for the august swiss. This is to be expected when the MI Open is at the end of the month. Congrats to Tony and Neal for shared 1st.

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Pair |       Name           |Total|Round|Round|Round|
Num  |        Rtg           | Pts |  1  |  2  |  3  |
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   1 | ANTHONY NICHOLS      |2.5  |W   4|W   3|D   2|
  MI |        2034          |     |     |     |     |
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   2 | NEAL ANDERSON        |2.5  |W   8|W   5|D   1|
  MI |        1777          |     |     |     |     |
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   3 | WILLIAM BUCKINGHAM   |2.0  |W   7|L   1|W   6|
  FL |        1692          |     |     |     |     |
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   4 | RICHARD WILSON       |2.0  |L   1|W   7|W   5|
  MI |        1666          |     |     |     |     |
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   5 | STANLEY JAROSZ JR    |1.0  |W   6|L   2|L   4|
  MI |        1903          |     |     |     |     |
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   6 | DAVID SUNDEEN        |1.0  |L   5|W   8|L   3|
  MI |        1600          |     |     |     |     |
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   7 | JOHN GRIFFIN         |1.0  |L   3|L   4|W   8|
  MI |        1514          |     |     |     |     |
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   8 | JERRY CRYSLER        |0.0  |L   2|L   6|L   7|
  MI |        1481          |     |     |     |     |
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No Club Next Two Weeks

Normally the chess club meets every Friday night, but the powers that be will be at a chess tournament this week and camping the following week.

I repeat: on August 15, and 22, no club. We will resume on August 29.

Can't Lose - Version 2

For those of you that missed it, version 1 is here. Basically this is me proving Tony Nichols wrong, who said, "I've never seen a position I can't lose in 1 move."

I've addressed the realism concerns to a rather absurd degree, to the point where not only does the position look realistic, but I've created a series of moves (a game?) that leads to it.

That game itself is quite ridiculous, but I tried to make it look as real as possible. There are times when one side appears to be responding to the other.



As you'll see, the very last position, after 31... c6???? (a candidate for the worst move in chess ever played), white has no choice - the only legal move is 32. Nb6, checkmate.