Matthew won 6th board to begin the scoring.
All NCP players have a time advantage over their Heyworth counterparts.
Here is a good story:
Isha has taken all her opponents pieces, and he has no hope to win, but the other player has not resigned, providing an illustration of the literal interpretation of "never surrender". Sometimes this attitude is futile, but at early levels of chess play, one can always hope that the winning player will blunder into a stalemate, giving one a draw as a gift. A player of Isha's strength will not blunder into a stalemate.
But you gotta give the guy recognition for trying. Watch this:
Isha got a pawn to seventh rank and was in postion to promote. The other player helpfully picked up a queen and set it on the board before Isha waved it off. Had he gotten away with this "act of politeness", he would have been stalemated and he'd have stolen a draw out of the game. Isha did not fall for it, and let his king take that pawn for free. Meanwhile, she turned to her remaining fistful of pawns to promote to a useful queen and finish off the game summarily.
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