Niles North -Evanston meet

NN - Evanston
12 0
11 0
5 5
0 9
4 4
7 0
6 0
2.5 2.5

47.5 20.5

Bloom Trail

Niles North attended the annual Bloom Trail Knights of the Round Table tournament this weekend. We took 14 players with us and the tournament was a lot of fun. Here are results from our players:

Freshmen
Chad1/5
Atif- 2/5
Evan - 2.5/5
Hunt- 2/5
Mike(Austin)- 4/5

Sophomores
Ashour-1
Cabbage-4/5
Fedya-4/
Glen-3 /5

Junior:
Ilan 5/5

Seniors:
Oscar- 4.5/5
Ben 5/5
Sherwin 2/5

Igor 3.5/5

Here are a couple tactical exercises that appeared from Niles North players:



tactic 1: Meerovich-Kirsch Should white be worried about Qb6+ winning the pawn on b2?

tactic 2: Rothschild-Liang What would you play as white in this position?




















* All pictures from www.chesscoach.org