{"id":330,"date":"2014-04-26T17:08:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/?p=330"},"modified":"2014-11-20T19:19:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T19:19:01","slug":"2nd-qualifier-for-2014-national-championships-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chesstt.org\/home\/2nd-qualifier-for-2014-national-championships-under-way\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd Qualifier for 2014 National Championships under way"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2nd Qualifier for the 2014 National Championships has started. Leading the field are Candidate Masters Cecil Lee and Frank Sears. \u00a0Lee is taking on Hermes Mentor who made a lovely comeback in the Masters tournament earlier this year. Mentor has a lovely position coming out of Lee’s favourite English opening and has just sacrificed an exchange. I shall let you know how that ends up.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Sears is black against Ken Fitzpatrick. As many of you may know, Fitzpatrick played a big role in junior chess for many years up until the 1990s. Ken sacrificed a pawn against Sears and has a very active position. But as we all know, Sears is a fighter. It should prove very interesting to see if he can generate a k-side attack against Sears.<\/p>\n

This tournament has also seen the return of the tough & solid player, Colin Knight. Colin is currently playing Carlyle Singh on board 3. Singh who is a member of Knights’ Chess club and \u00a0is known for his great work as a coach with the T&T Chess Foundation, is playing a most fascinating position. If he can manage to open the centre, he may well be able to capitalize on Knight’s un-castled king. Stay tuned for more on that game.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the other great battle in this round is the game between juniors Daniel Bhola and Rishon Ramlogan. Bhola sacrificed a pawn and seems to have sufficient compensation for it as he gets ready to launch a king-side attack. Meanwhile though \u00a0Rishon is drumming up counter-play on the queen side.<\/p>\n

Tune in for more on the 2nd National Prelims on your favourite local chess website: www.chesstt.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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