Chess Match vs. Greenwood

On February 12th, the Trinity Chess Team took on Greenwood.  Greenwood was hoping to get their first win of the season versus Trinity, but that proved a difficult challenge.  In round one, Trinity had a 14 to 1 lead, and Trinity never looked back.  We finished with a final score of 34.5 to 8.5.

 

One match that caught my eye was between Evan Holmes (Trinity) versus Graham Golden (Greenwood) in round 2.  Evan was following sound opening principles: he developed all his pieces; he fought for the center; and he castled early.  His opponent was doing similar except for castling, and this proved decisive.  Since Graham’s king and queen were both in the center, Evan found an opportunity to skewer them with his bishop.  This looked like it would win the queen, but Graham found a clever way to block with his knight.  A few moves later, Evan found another opportunity to skewer the queen and king. This second skewer was with his rook, and this one could not be blocked.  Evan won the queen and eventually won the game.  

 

Five of our players had three wins with no losses or ties: Chase Stelmaschuk; Tobechukwu “Daniel” Okoli; Charles Dorman; Evan Holmes; and Ryan Hart.