Bulletin No.65 – Local Games: A Miniature and 2 King Walks!

From today the weekly bulletins will be shorter than in the past but we will still bring you plenty of quality content!  

Roughly every other week we will bring you three games by local players.   These will be a mixture of best/favourite games, short games and swindles and will be annotated by the players themselves or one of us.  

Today we start with a really nice miniature and two games featuring unusual middlegame king walks.

Martin Simons and Peter Anderson
12/6/21

Short and Sharp

This is a really nicely played miniature by Kevin Goater.

How to Survive a King Walk and Win – Attack!

This is a classic Mike Duggan attacking game, with an amusing return of his king to its original square and a nice finishing touch.

How to Survive a King Walk and Win – Defence!

When we asked local players for swindles this was Mike Waddington’s offering: he said the whole game was swindle! In truth, it is a really tenacious and ingenious piece of defence.  With Mike’s own notes…

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