TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Cavan - The three games you lost were to players rated much higher than you. In the two games where the rating were equal, you prevailed.

Thomas - you somehow managed to get paired against strong players (all over 800) and I thought you would be able to win the last round when you played someone with a 1 and 3 record, but your opponent was rated 1295 !  So your rating went down only 4 points.

                                 bef   aft   chg

Cavan   L W L W L 384  410  +26

Thomas L B L L  L  254  250    -4

Cavan	410
Quillan	331
Warren	325
Simon	313
Owen	275
Thomas	250
Lucia	241
Luke	184
Jack	124
Grant	121
Kellen	100
Alan	100
James	100

Here's a position from Thomas' round 4 game. Can you find the 3-move checkmate for white? Thomas found the first move, but made a mistake on the second move.

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Answer:

1. Qf8+ Qg8

2. Qf6+ Qg7

3. Qxg7#