Sunday Tournament Update

With almost 60% of the games in the ChessWorld Jerome Gambit Thematic Tournament completed, it is possible to rule out a half of the players from the list of possible top scorer – but it is not possible to go much further than that. (A player with the score of 0-1 in a 28 game event could finish up 27-1.)

Two players continue to burn up the track:  mckenna215, with 18.5 points out of 20 games; and AsceticKingK9, with 17 points out of 17 games. First place may come down to the outcome of the two games they play against each other.

White continues to score 39%.

We have seen an example of mckenna215 grinding out a difficult endgame ("A Not-so-Simple 'Simple Endgame' "). Here is AsceticKingK9, with White, finishing up an opponent who allowed his developmen to lag, fatally.

13.Rxf8+ Kxf8 14.Qf3+ Kg8 15.Rf1 d6 16.Qf8+ Kh7 17.Ngf6+ gxf6 18.Nxf6+ Kg6 19.Qg8 checkmate.

Surely there is more great chess to come!