"Fifteen to One"
Match: London Open 2010 Masters Flight Semi-Final
Format: Best of 3 x 7 point Sets


Frederik Bentler
(playing black)



Score: 0 sets,
1 point in Set 2.



Score: 1 set,
6 points in Set 2.
Arild Idsoe
(playing white)

Frederik needs to bear off his last remaining checker to win
 the game, set and match.
 
At this play Arild has about a 2.06% chance of winning this game and
is about 700/1 to win the Tournament. He did so.
 
To his eternal credit Frederik Bentler was magnanimous in defeat.

Further and far more in depth coverage of this position
can be viewed via Zoe Cunningham's presentation:

The above film is just 1 of 7 made of the London Open 2010
Click here for the others.
 

Published 3rd October 2010