Clash of the Chess Titans
Clash of the Chess Titans begun in School this week, a match for Year 12’s Rowan and Nikolai, two of the School’s strongest players, competing to discover who is indeed, the best Chess player in School!
Rowan and Nikolai played their first game of six on Wednesday, surrounded by the noise of their fellow students in a packed dining hall. Nikolai prepared a surprise variation in the opening, but Rowan had checked Nikolai’s online games and had seen him use that variation before, so was prepared in case it happened. As a result, Rowan did extremely well in the opening, putting Nikolai under time pressure in addition to creating other problems for him on the board.
With each player having 10 minutes plus 1 second added for every move they make to play the game, Rowan took the win, with only 12 seconds left on the clock, and Nikolai was down to 2 seconds.
Both of these students of course are taking this competition very seriously, and so we await the second of the six games next week with much anticipation and excitement.
