Established 1942. Seven times Bristol & District league Champions
Apologies. Not much content the last couple of weeks but no one particularly likes to write or read about losses. A summary of our glory: The A team got well beaten by Clevedon A with Derek providing our only full point (scorecard here). The C team lost heavily for the second time this season to …
Continue reading "B team gathering momentum. And some other stuff (w/c 9 Feb)"
Two matches to report this week. On Tuesday the D team completed the double over table-topping Hanham A and made it two straight wins after a tough first half of the season. Duncan hung in against Steven for as long as he could but the flag fell in a losing position. Piotr took what turned …
Continue reading "Matches from the week. D team win, F team don’t"
Three matches this week. Tuesday saw the F team at home against debutants Thornbury B. Match details below from Siobhan and co (thank you). The game on board 1 saw the ever-popular (sigh) London system deployed by Richard. It remained equal after the first few pieces were traded off and, whilst there were opportunities for …
Four matches this week. First up the E team were in action at Portishead on Monday. An unbeaten team performance with Mark’s win against Ibrahim on board 2 making the difference. Division 5 does seem to be made up of two tranches of teams and the win took us up to best of tranche two. …
Continue reading "w/c 8 December. A, C, E, F teams all in action"
Two home matches this week. Two defeats. It was, to be honest, a struggle to find 12 available players this week. As it turned out Piotr, one of our dirty dozen, lost his exhaust on the way to the club leaving us with eleven. Fortunately Kristian was brave enough to step up to fill the …
Continue reading "No home comfort (weakened B and D teams struggle)"
Worth noting UWE held their first rapid play. Two sections; open and major. Derek and Brent finished on 5 points each. Derek, who cleverly lost his first game then ate up the field winning his next five shared first place with an unbeaten Brent (including wins over Oli Stubbs and Yutong Liu) and Yutong. Good …
Continue reading "UWE First Rapid Play – go Derek, go Brent."
Three matches this week. On Tuesday the A team’s good run of form came to an end against Clifton B. The white pieces on boards 4 and 6 proved to be decisive. Match card here. Also on Tuesday the D team went down to a strong Grendel B in division 4. Joe won his game …
Continue reading "Matches from w/c 24 November. C team top division 3"
A particularly mixed week. In order of glory. Report from Mike for the B team match vs. University B. The B team are hovering in a congested mid table and were raring to get another win in the books; right from the off we were facing some aggressive play with the centres of most boards …
The A team secured all the points in a tight-fought match with Clifton A and briefly climbed to the top of the table. Only one decisive game which saw Derek beat Gareth on board 3. After sacrificing a pawn unnecessarily black won it back and seemed to have eked out a positional advantage. There was …
Continue reading "Wins on Tuesday, loss on Wednesday (w/c 10 November)"
Horfield & Redland Chess Club 