Life is beginning – only beginning – to get back to normal.
Lockdown is easing and the NLC players, having hunkered down in their front rooms for weeks on end, are finally emerging, blinking, into the mid-summer sun…and realising that there are other things to do on a Wednesday than play chess.
Which left only the very hardcore chess addicts playing on Wednesday 08 July – but the chess was still magnificently liberal.
Games of the week
Each week, this journal’s Editorial Committee will present to the Chess Circle two online games from that week’s session that, in their esteemed view, display a particularly lively charm. Perhaps it will be a ferocious attack, or a dogged defence, maybe a catastrophic blunder or simply something that piques the Committee’s interest…
It’s always good to see a straight punch up between two of the NLC old-timers.
Here we see a quick swapping of pieces as each player backed their own endgame technique. Soon enough they were left in a King and six pawns each endgame, followed by a pawn race, and finishing in a drawn King and Queen ending. Honours very definitely even there.
The second game is chosen simply for its appealing final position.