ONE of the things that you look forward to when you meet an old friend is their smile. It is really appreciated and can brighten your day when given. Even a chess player who is about to meet his opponent at the start of a game gives a good luck hand shake and a smile.Now the person whose game I am going to highlight next has devoted the most part of his life to helping a lot of people in Bermuda have their best possible smile — and that is Dentist Dr. Nigel Chudleigh, pictured.

He has also been a strong chess player for some 30 years now. Within that span, he has represented Bermuda a number of times, both in Olympiad Chess and in our own Bermuda International Open, which by the way is to take place between February 9 and 11 2007.

One of the Olympiads that Dr. Chudleigh attended was in 1978 in Buenos Aires. It was Round 10, the last round, when he played against Yum San Chiu. To start off with, both Yum San Chiu and Chudleigh had the same Elo rating — 2,200. Also in this game you can see that Nigel's knight does what a good knight should do, and that is to attack two pieces at the same time as you can see in Diagram 1 move 51.... Nxa3 then again in Diagram 2.

After move 56 as in Diagram 3 you can see that Yum Sun could not remove the knight.

And if he did capture the knight as in Diagram 4 it would have been over soon with Rc1+ the king move to Ke2 with no way of stopping el equals Queen+

On October 25th 1978 this game made the news around the Olympiad. It is all smiles for our Bermuda team and Dr. Nigel Chudleigh.

So — smile! You never know how good it looks on you!

Chiu, Y (2200) — Chudleigh, N (2200) (C02)

Buenos Aires ol (Men) Buenos Aires (10), 1978

Yum San Chiu — white

Nigel Chudleigh —black.

1. e4 36 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Nge7 6. Bg5 Qb6 7. b3 cxd4 8. cxd4 Nf5 9. Be3 Bb4+ 10. Nbd2 Nfxd4 11. Nxd4 Nxd4 12. a3 Bxd2+ 13. Qxd2 Nxb3 14. Bxb6 Nxd2 15. Bb5+ Bd7 16. Bxd7+ Kxd7 17. Be3 Nc4 18. Bf4 Rac8 19. 0-0 Rc5 20. Rfb1 b6 21. h3 Rhc8 22. Rb3 d4 23. Rd3 Rd5 24. Re1 Kc6 25. Re4 Rcd8 26. Bg3 Nb2 27. Rd2 Na4 28. Rh4 h6 29. Rg4 g6 30. Rh4 h5 31. Rf4 R8d7 32. Rf3 d3 33. Re3 Nc5 34. Re1 Nb3 35. Rb2 Nd4 36. Kf1 Ne2 37. Rd2 Rd4 38. Bh2 Kb7 39. f3 Nc3 40. Rc1 Na4 41. Bg1 Rfd5 42. f4 Nc5 43. Rc4 Nb3 44. Rd1 a5 45. Rc3 a4 46. Ke1 b5 47. Be3 Na5 48. Bf2 Nc4 49. Rb1 Ka6 50. Kd1 d2 51. Rc2 Nxa3 52. Rc6+ Kb7 53. Rb6+ Kc8 54. Rb2 Nc4 55. Rc2 Rc7 56. Ra6 Nb2+ 0-1