All the right moves

Antoni Wysocki. (Nick Pearce Photo)

With his night shift approaching, Dal custodian Antoni Wysocki was unbeatable—racking up four wins out of four matches in a recent, three-day tournament to determine Nova Scotia’s chess champ. 

For the last game, a draw was declared and Mr. Wysocki was crowned the winner, regaining the title he won in 2005.

“I had to work that evening, so that was incentive not to prolong the tournament,” says the 42-year-old Dalhousie employee who’s been playing chess seriously for the past decade. He’s known in chess circles for his “iron logic.”

Since winning the tournament; he’s noticed his coworkers have lost their desire to challenge him to a match. “I guess when they realized what level I was at, all interest in playing suddenly diminished,” he says with a shrug.