Category: Prime

Marc Smith visits the Italian Women’s Trials Final  The final of the trials to select the Italian Women’s team was more of a marathon than a sprint, played over 112 boards divided into seven 16-board stanzas. The two teams contained a wealth of international experience between them, all twelve players having previously represented Italy in…

Marc Smith visits the closing rounds of heat 9 of the alt New-Co  Last week, we left Heat 9 of the monthly Alt New-Co with the English/Swedish team still unbeaten and well in command after seven of the ten matches had been played. These were the standings in Group A going into the final three…