We may all be physically stuck at home but your fellow Club members are making their presence felt abroad—online that is! We are presently in team matches against clubs from Scotland, France, and Singapore. We also have our old foes the Reno Chess Club. The matches started on July 15th and are what is called “Daily Play” by Chess.com, who organized the event. But in fact it is more like old school correspondence chess as you have three days to make a move. Each participant plays two games against the same player in each match.
The match against Singapore has the most players, with seven on each team. But someone may have forgotten to remind our opponents of the time control as Randy Hough won his first game in record time—-a mere 3 days! Randy was surprised at the speed of his opponent’s moves but certainly took advantage of it. His e6 pawn push was a nice way to pick up the errant Black Bishop on g4. It is our featured game:
In fact, we are now up 4-0 against the team from Bishan, Randy also won his second game and Chris Stychinsky, not to be outdone, also finished 2-0.
But, it is much more likely that the matches are going to take many months to finish. We are still waiting for our match against Thousand Oaks Chess Club to conclude, which started last March and is 93% done, with @ObedientRunner playing the clock out in a lost position. We will be providing periodic updates but you can check out the games yourself by following these links:
United Kingdom: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/san-gabriel-valley-chess-club/1145550
Singapore: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/san-gabriel-valley-chess-club/1147218
France: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/san-gabriel-valley-chess-club/1147212
Reno: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/san-gabriel-valley-chess-club/1147214
Azerbaijan: https://www.chess.com/club/matches/san-gabriel-valley-chess-club/1147248