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<\/p>\nBehind them, Saco Oliveros de Lince bounced from their Round 2 draw with a 4\u20130 sweep of Panama\u2019s The Oxford School, and Colegio Madre del Divino Pastor of El Salvador beat Columbus American School 2\u00bd\u20131\u00bd, although William Nicol\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez won again on the top board, this time against Jasmany Shallom Castillo Romero. Queen\u2019s College, who had beaten Mexico in the opening round, lost 1\u20133 to Cuba\u2019s Martin Klein Schiller.<\/p>\n
It was a much better day for the hosts. Colegio Humboldt recorded a second consecutive 4\u20130 victory, this time over Uruguay\u2019s Colegio y Liceo Nuestra Se\u00f1ora del Verd\u00fan, and the British School beat Honduras\u2019s Escuela Internacional Sampedrana 3\u20131. Only Colegio Biling\u00fce San Francisco de As\u00eds lost, 1\u00bd\u20132\u00bd to Mexico\u2019s Colegio Celta Internacional.<\/p>\n
The field also grew. Projeto Vidan\u00e7ar of Brazil joined the championship as the 29th team and lost 0\u20134 to Academia Inter Metro of Puerto Rico, while St. Kitts International Academy took the bye.<\/p>\n
Position of the round<\/p>\n
The biggest individual upset of the round came on the top board of match nine, where Aimar Mar\u00eda Murillo Mathiew, rated 1450, beat Juan Esquibel (1792) as Colegio Humboldt swept Nuestra Se\u00f1ora del Verd\u00fan 4\u20130.<\/p>\n
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The game had been anything but smooth, with the advantage changing hands repeatedly. In this position, Black tried something clever with\u00a022\u2026Nxf2, and the idea behind it is worth examining.<\/p>\n
After\u00a023.Qxg6, Black has\u00a023\u2026Nh3+\u00a0in reserve. If White takes with\u00a024.gxh3, then\u00a024\u2026Bxd4+ arrives with a check, after which Black recaptures the queen on g6 and comes out level.<\/p>\n
But\u00a024.gxh3\u00a0is not a forced move. White simply stepped aside with\u00a024.Kf1, and Black\u2019s entire construction collapsed as both his knight on h3 and bishop on c5 were hanging, and he still had to spend a move to recapture the queen. A piece down, Black resigned a few moves later. A cool sidestep in a position where neither player had much time left.<\/p>\n
Round 4<\/p>\n
The two unbeaten teams met at the top and could not be separated. Harvest Park Middle School and Crescent Heights Academy drew 2\u20132, with the Americans taking the top two boards and the Canadians the bottom two, where Aiden Yin and CM Andrew Yin both won.<\/p>\n
Board one was the meeting the draw had been building towards: FM Patrick Liu (2292), the highest-rated player in the championship, faced FM Lucas Mason Pin Qian Yao (1969), the second highest. It was the sharpest game of the round, with the two players castling on opposite sides and sending their pawns at each other\u2019s kings. In the end Liu\u2019s attack proved decisive.<\/p>\n
That draw allowed Saco Oliveros de Lince to join them. Peru\u2019s top seeds beat Colegio Madre del Divino Pastor 3\u20131, although Marcos Beltr\u00e1n Meneses Morales lost on board one to Jasmany Shallom Castillo Romero.<\/p>\n
Standings after Round 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Behind them, Saco Oliveros de Lince bounced from their Round 2 draw with a 4\u20130 sweep of Panama\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-432396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}