Exchange Excitement

Last Tuesday (16th July) the club held a double round robin exchange tournament. Exchange chess is played in pairs and when your partner takes a piece you can put it on as a move. Needless to say matches get quite wild with many tactical thunderbolts and tense teamwork.
Team No, James McGrath and Nick Warren, stormed to victory with 11/12. Neither had played the variant before and lost the first game as they got used to it. After that there was no looking back with 11 games in a row to take the tournament with ease.
Team Robben, Rob and Ben, played extremely well to come in 2nd with 8/12. Consistently great play was rewarded as only Team No managed to beat them.
Team Tal-ents, Anthony and John, were just behind Robben with 7/12 to take 3rd place. They had a slow start in choosing a team name and getting used to the variant, but accelerated towards the end to comfortably finish on the podium.