Or in Jude's case, make that the last to come and the first to leave. Arriving at last night's KCC v University B match after the other 3 games had started (but still ahead of the 7.30 scheduled start, which may well have been critical, as his phone went off when he came in the room!), he was finished in about 30 minutes or less. Having already played Nc7+ and Nxa8, he soon followed up with Ne5+, which would usually be a good move, but when the Black queen is on c6, it is rather terminal.
Mike finished next with another win, but I had long since given up looking at this game as I couldn't understand what either player was doing. But Mike clearly understood more than his opponent and was a rook up in the final position.
Ben tried to drum up a big attack against the Black long castled king, but some nice bishop play by his opponent convinced him to take a draw by repetition after a perpetual attack on his rook.
As is often the case, I was last to finish when I avoided the one move on the board that would have delivered stalemate in favour of queening a pawn. And I was already 2 pieces up. Things had not been so straightforward from the opening, but as soon as my opponent decided to jump in with Nb7+ he was doomed, as the advance knight had no way out and was certainly going to drop off eventually.
So a 3.5-0.5 win for us, to get us on the scoreboard for the season.
And now for the song. Another classic performance from Jackson. Listen carefully, and the title of this post will appear before your very ears! Sometimes, even I don't know how I do it.
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