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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Simultaneous Chess: Mr Puchades v. Five Pupils

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Richard Puchades 

On the Tuesday on the last week of the Summer term I played the 5 best PGS chess players in a simultaneous match organised by Luke Ronaldson. All of the games were hard fought but, in the end, experience triumphed over youth and I won 5-0.









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