Keith Gregory’s 4th simultaneous match against his friends in Chandler’s Ford Chess Club. Congratulations to Keith on being unbeaten in the match: he won 5 of the 6 games and drew the other game (Graham Stuart thwarted the whitewash).

Simultaneous Exhibitions

Keith has now set up four of these club simultaneous tournaments online. These events, where one player takes on multiple opponents, are known as Simultaneous Exhibitions, or ‘simuls’ . Simuls can be over the (several) boards, or online. Keith has set up four of the online simuls so far.

These are very busy for Keith of course – and good fun for all of us. Keith copes well with the pressure of multiple opponents and the technical issues, and plays very well, and scores impressively highly each time.

Keith’s 4th Simul vs Chandler’s Ford

The 4th ‘Simul‘ tournament was on Monday evening, 21st August, on the online platform lichess.org. The games had full, standard time control, this event being 60 minutes for each player plus an increment of 20 seconds per move. As host, Keith played as white, and had an overall extra 20 minutes. As it happened time was never an issue for Keith as he kept up a good pace of play in all the games.

Previous Simultaneous Exhibitions with Keith

Keith’s 1st Simul on 11th November 2021.

With all the pressures of setting up a type of online tournament we hadn’t played before, then playing nine of us from the Chandler’s Ford Chess Club simultaneously online, how would Keith do? Very well actually: see results at 1st Simul

Keith’s 2nd Simul. December 2021.

Keith takes on no fewer than twelve players simultaneously! See results at 2nd Simul.

Keith’s 3rd Simul. March 2022.

Players who had been so used to playing in the online rapid-play tournaments had now learnt that there is ample time in a classic length 60+20 time-control game. So a tougher prospect for Keith with eleven opponents all playing better with the time limits. He still does well though… See 3rd Simul