The National Chess Championship concludes this evening at the Ocean SprayHotel with Wendell Meusa still maintaining the lead after four rounds, although he was defeated by Anthony Drayton on Wednesday night. Meusa has already played the two highest ranked players of the competition, Drayton and Taffin Khan, and therefore it seems unlikely that he would draw or drop another game to tarnish his anticipated result.
Meusa’s game against Drayton, who is FIDE ranked some 100 points below him, was tantamount to a ‘fool’s mate,’ a comedy of errors that is hilarious to a chess player. At the level of the national championship we cannot continue to facilitate such errors. For example, Drayton lost a vital game to Glenford Corlette because he did not realize he was in check when he inadvertently picked up his
