Last week Arizona made yet another appearance into the US Chess League Playoffs as they were paired against the St. Louis Arch Bishops.
St. Louis held the tie-break advantage, if the match was tied 2-2, Arizona would be sent packing and preparing for the next season.
It seemed that the Arizona game play for the night was for Mac Molner to draw his game (even though Mac was was not feeling well) and to win on Board 4, to basically repeat the results from two weeks ago when these same two teams, and same four players last met. It worked out then, why wouldn't it work out now? Well, Mac did draw his game, but Dipro did not get his expected result. After two games AZ only had 1/2 point. This meant that to advance to the Semi Finals Arizona would have to defeat this years top stars in the USCL, Kannappan and Bregadze, this seemed like an insurmountable feat, yet the veteran players for Arizona have seen it all before and put up some really solid play to score two points on the middle two boards, this victory gives Arizona the chance to face Seattle - haha, I always want to type in "Dallas" there, don't you?
Enjoy the video, there are some exciting games to look at.
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