Nihal Wins 2 Games and Draws 1 At Chess Jamboree

Nihal was up at 5:30am this morning waiting in anticipation for the excitement that awaited him at todays Chess Jamboree.

Participant teams came from Tettenhall Colllege, Lanesfield, Warestones, and his own school.

3 Different year groups attended from each school ranging from the chess prodigies from Year 4 that included Nihal, up to the established players from Year 6.

From Nihal's year 3 participants joined into play.

Nihal won 2 against Warstones A and Lanesfield B respectively and drew against Warestones B
The other two participants scored 1 Win 1 Draw and 1 Loss, and 2 Wins and 1 Loss respectively.

Nihal's first game was a draw, whereby each player concentrated on protecting the king and resulting in a stalemate, where at best of times the takes were to defend as opposed to gambits.

Nihal's second game was a constant game of bishops and knights, and at one stage setting up a triple fork using a bishop against 2 rooks and a queen. The opponent was left with no choice but to defend the queen by sacrificing a rook, and this ended up sadly with backing off into a checkmate, brilliant strategy Nihal!

Nihal's final game was pure acceleration resulting in a checkmate in 13 moves!

Fantastic stuff Nihal, well done!