Junior Club - 2012 competition round 3

Round three was an exciting round, as the the two leaders, both on six points clashed on the top board.  There were nine children at the club and the games were arranged as follows.

Joe       V    Dylan
Harry    V    Nicola
Tom      V    Aidan
Leia       V    James
Dhillan Bye.

Game 1,
Joe playing White, pictured below, made a solid start.  Joe has made massive improvements during his time at the club and he has all the ingredients to become a very strong player.  Unfortunately for Joe he lost his queen to young Dylan, which against Dylan is a lost game.  Dylan enjoyed promoting another queen and torturing Joe until he called checkmate.

 Game 2,
Harry as White faced the tricky Nicola, pictured below.  Nicola developed well, but leaked pawns left, right and centre.

 Harry, pictured below, enjoyed an early lead, but soon found himself dead level.  In a rook + pawn v rook drawn ending Nicola allowed the pawn to promote and was then checkmated.

Game 3,
Tom, picture below, was unlucky to be playing Aidan.  Aidan is one of the best players in the club, but missed round two.  If you don't come you don't score.

Aidan, below, was scoring the game and looked to play a very good game.  Hopefully we will look at the game next week.

 Game 4
Leia, picture, below played a wild game against James.  The material swings were massive.  James was a queen ahead,

then Leia won it back until James, picture below, had to be stopped trying to win with only a bishop.

Dhillan, picture below, was given a bye and scores a full 3 points.

 Well done Dylan, picture below, who has a perfect 9/9.

	Name	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Score
5	Dylan	W,6      3	B,1          3	B,3         3	9
3	Joe	B,9       3	B,4         3	W,5        1	7
4	Harry	B,10     3	W,3        1	W,11      3	7
9	James	W,3     1	Bye        3	B,7          2	6
2	Aidan	W,7     3	X	B,6          3	6
1	AJ	B,8      3	W,5       1	X	4
6	Tom	B,5      1	W,8         2	W,2         1	4
11	Nicola	Bye     3	X	B,4          1	4
12	Dhillan	X	X	Bye          3	3
8	Caroline	W,1     1	B,6          2	X	3
7	Leia	B,2      1	X	W,9         2	3
10	Jamie	W,4     1	X	X	1

Round boxes show Colour, Opponent and score gained.

3 = win, 2 = Draw, 1 = loss.  X = No show