Midland Classical Academy beat Trinity in our last lower school match of the season.  The match was well fought, with MCA winning rounds 1 and 3 and Trinity winning round 2.  Our top three boards were manned by our team captains, Ewan MacDonald, Joaquin Gil, and Ollie Mathewson.  Twenty Five Trinity Chargers participated in the match, and two went undefeated: Ewan MacDonald, Micah Griffin.

 

One match that caught my eye was in round one between Ewan MacDonald and MCA’s top board Gregory Gallardo.  Most of the other games had already finished, but this game was still going on.  When I looked, Ewan had a comfortable lead in material, but he was down to 22 seconds on his clock.  He needed to get a checkmate with his king and rook in that amount of time.  Normally, that checkmate would be easy for him, but with 22 seconds...  Well he pulled it off with a few seconds to spare.