The Rest-of-the-World [ROW] match vs. MrThayer on Chessworld.net has ended in a win for the ROW team.

"Congratulations ROW team. Very good. I hope you learned from this game. The opening is a solid, positional opening. There are a few ways to go wrong with it, but only by violating the rules.
Remember,
Rule 1 - Answer the threat of the piece that just move (every move);
Rule 2 - Re-capture after a capture;
Rule 3 - Watch your pawn structure.

Good luck and good chess.
MrThayer"

And with that message MrThayer let his flag fall.

Yesterday Kingscrusher [Chessworld.net Webmaster] made it official with this message to the ROW Team.

"Congratulations to the Team in defeating MrThayer, and many thanks to MrThayer for a great game with nice discussions. The games has now been archived."

The game was a demonstration of the London System and even though it ended in a loss for White, I think the game still demonstrates the strengths of the system. A critical moment came at move 24 [Diagram] when White lost a piece.


[White to move]

MrThayer played 24. Nc4 which loses the piece after 24...Qe4+. 24. Qd3 was likely better for White.

I'm sure that MrThayer will continue to be a strong proponent of the London System despite this loss. Charles Thayer is also one of the best player coaches at Chessworld.net and has contributed a bunch  of the material including MrThayers Rules at my main site.

My thanks go out to MrThayer for a well played and instructive game and to the ROW team for some great thought provoking discussions.

Here's the full pgn game score from the ROW match.

[Event "www.ChessWorld.net server game"]
[Site "www.ChessWorld.net "]
[Date "2005.5.18"]
[Round "NA"]
[White "MrThayer"]
[Black "Rest of World"]
[Result "0-1"]
[Termination "White resigned"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[DateLastMove "2006.3.28"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Board "1382834"]

1. d4 d5 2. Ng1f3 Ng8f6 3. Bc1f4 Nb8c6 4. e3 Bc8g4 5. c3 e6 6. Bf1d3 Bf8d6 7. Bf4xd6 Qd8xd6 8. Bd3b5 O-O 9. Nb1d2 a6 10. Bb5a4 b5 11. Ba4c2 e5 12. dxe5 Nc6xe5 13. h3 Bg4h5 14. g4 Bh5g6 15. Bc2xg6 Ne5xg6 16. a4 b4 17. c4 Rf8e8 18. cxd5 Qd6xd5 19. Qd1b3 Qd5b7 20. O-O-O c5 21. Kc1b1 Nf6e4 22. Rh1f1 Ne4d6 23. Nf3g1 Ra8c8 24. Nd2c4 Qb7e4 25. Qb3d3 Nd6xc4 26. Ng1e2 Qe4xd3 27. Rd1xd3 Ng6e5 28. Rd3d5 Nc4b6 29. Rd5d6 Ne5c4 30. Rd6d3 Nb6xa4 31. b3 Nc4a3 32. Kb1c1 c4 33. bxc4 Rc8xc4 34. Kc1d2 Na4c5 35. Rd3d5 Nc5e4 36. Kd2d1 b3 {White resigned} 0-1 

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