I'm as surprised as you, but its time for another Game of the Month article. These generally come around with as similar frequency to Halley's Comet, as it takes something special to prompt me into action. and we have something special here as it features a splendid win by Dan, playing for Kenilworth D in a recent Division 2 match against Leamington B. Dan has been in splendid form for the club this season, which is essentially his first playing league chess in the Northern Hemisphere! So far he has scored a very impressive 9.5/13 across his D, E and U8750 Cup appearances, and has also found the time to play quite a few games for Coventry in the Coventry League. (For which we forgive him!)
The Game of the Month sees Dan despatching the much higher rated (+281 points) Chris Ward (but no, not the English GM of the same name!) in impressive fashion. Chris goes into the record books as the highest rated player that Dan has beaten in an over the board standard play game - at least for now! We can reliably expect even better things to come from Dan in the future. The game features what must be one of the queickest wins of a queen I have ever seen, followed by a suitably violent and brutal king hunt that drives the White king up the board, where it perishes when faced with the choice of being mated on a4 or a6.
A splendid game by Dan which deserves to be accompanied by a song. Something Antipodean is called for, I think. And they don't come more Antipodean than this!
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