I HAVE been asked by a few people why I don’t produce any of my own winning games? Well, first of all, this column should be about all the chess players throughout the island.

Second, I have been featured in this column a few times before. Also I might add that Bermuda has a lot of people who know how to play chess and I really like the idea of featuring them.

My trouble is that I don’t have a game (in my chess base where I store a record of most of the games played at the Chamber of Commerce) for some of the players I would like to feature — including those who play at Harbour Nights (which by the way starts next month) — and I would really appreciate anyone who could help setting up tables and so on.

It was in last week’s column that I wrote about Alvin Amore and Kumi Bradshaw’s game; Bradshaw (pictured)<\p>lost this game.

If you read the article, you might recall that I said that everyone is a winner. Well, in Round 2 Bradshaw won against me and it was a good win at that! He was off the island for rounds 1, 3, and 6, and therefore has a lot of catching up to do.

But he is not the only one who needs to catch up and play some away games.

Bradshaw is also hoping to make the Olympiad team that will represent Bermuda in Germany in 2008.

Although he knew how to play the game, there have been so many years he just did not play at all. So it’s good to have him back on the scene.

It’s Bradshaw playing White and Ebbin playing Black. To start things off, Bradshaw made a knight sacrifice for position, in move 15. Look at Diagram 1. My king was on h7 at this stage of the game and Bradshaw had just captured my knight on g6. From here all the pressure is on me to play.

Diagram 2 looks so much like Diagram 1 — the only difference is his bishop which has an attack on my queen and rook. If I cut the attack off by playing pawn to d6 I save my queen but lose a rook.

So I counter attack by taking his knight, thinking that he would trade off queens and I could save my rook. But Bradshaw had a bigger plan and it is in Diagram 3 with queen to g5 check. Now my queen is lost and my rook is still under attack.

At this stage, I should have resigned but I thought that I could recover and it would pay me to play on. But in Diagram 4 it is mate in two for Bradshaw. And, as I said, it was a very good win for him.

Kumi Bradshaw: White

Larry Ebbin: Blac>

Bermuda F.I.D.E. Rated Tournament 2007.

1. e4 g6 2. d4 e6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. d5 exd5 5. exd5 Qe7+ 6. Be2 Qb4+ 7. c3 Qd6 8. 0-0 Ne7 9. c4 0-0 10. Re1 h6 11. Nbd2 f5 12. Nb3 b6 13. Nbd4 a6 14. g3 g5 15. Nxg5 hxg5 16. Bxg5 Ng6 17. Qd2 Kh7 18. Rad1 Bb7 19. Bh5 Qc5 20. Bxg6+ Kxg6 21. Be7 Qxd4 22. Qg5+ Kf7 23. Rxd4 Bxd4 24. Qxf5+ Kg7 25. Qxf8+ Kg6 26. Qg8+ Kh6 27. Qg5+ Kh7 28. Re4 Bg7 29. Rh4+ Kg8 30. Bf6 Kf7 31. Qxg$>

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