Exercise is overrated. I got up this morning and went for a long walk. It felt good to get out and about in the fresh air and Beach Haven is a nice place for it. Let me show you.
This is Island bay, on the northern shore of Auckland.
Its amazing to see how the trees hang on desperately to the cliff face as it gets eroded away.
And t [...]
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George Trundle Masters Rd 5
Exercise is overrated. I got up this morning and went for a long walk. It felt good to get out and about in the fresh air and Beach Haven is a nice place for it. Let me show you.
This is Island bay, on the northern shore of Auckland.
Its amazing to see how the trees hang on desperately to the cliff face as it gets eroded away.
And t [...]
George Trundle Masters Rd 4
Today’s game was a bit shaky and I blame facebook 🙂 I was engaged in a frivolous conversation about  the Borislav Ivanov case until about 3am. Just in case you have not heard about it or are not a serious chessplayer, allow me to summarise.Borislav Ivanov is a Bulgarian amateur who has been performing remarkably well. So well in fact [...]
George Trundle Masters Rd 3
Today our house scored 3/3! Our host Bruce Watson won an incredible game against Athula Russell, who is our fourth foreigner although he lives in New Zealand now. I was certain that he was busted but Bruce’s mate Fritz disagrees with me.Steven {Solomon} got off the mark at last as well with what looked like an easy win against the tal [...]
George Trundle Masters Rd 2
Today I played my host, Bruce Watson. We have played before and that too was a scrappy game. Last time, in the 2000 zonal, while trying to convert, I blundered with 84.Kg6?? allowing mate in one. Instead Bruce played 84…Qc5?? allowing 85.Qd8 mate!
Today neither of us blundered quite so badly. Bruce sacrificed the exchange for a pawn [...]
George Trundle Masters
It has been a few years since I have been to Aotearoa, aka New Zealand, and I have missed it. The country is the most beautiful one on planet earth, or at least the most beautiful I have seen. The chess scene is vibrant and friendly despite it’s distance from the rest of the world.One of the reasons for its success is the Auckland ches [...]
Happy 50th birthday Steven Solomon
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Last weekend Anthony, Steven’s son, organised an open tournament in honour of his dads birthday. Since mine fell on the weekend, I was included as well. Thanks Anthony. And thanks for wearing your Doubleroo t-shirt at the prizegiving.
Prizegiving
Steven duly won the tournament with a picket fence score. His fifth round win a [...]
Brodie McClymont wins Peninsula open.
Brodie won with a picket fence 7/7. He was in trouble in round 5 against Yi Liu but apart from that his tournament looked like plain sailing. I was second on 6/7 and Tony Weller finished in clear third! A sensational result for Tony in a strong field.The other prizes were mainly taken by the juniors. I’ll publish those results when I f [...]
Peninsula Open, rounds 4+5
First up in the morning I had to play Brodie with black. 18…f5 was based on a miscalculation which obliged me to sack a pawn. I got some counterplay only to miscalculate the ending. Shows I need a warm up before Malaysia.
So feeling quite dejected after the morning debacle, I played this game quite aimlessly until my opponent made an [...]
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