Our club championship took place over two evenings this month. Six 20m+5s games with two trophies up for grabs; the main cup for the overall winner and the grading trophy for the best under 1700 graded player. 19 players turned out over the two evenings and much thanks to Phil for organising us. Derek was …
Match Reports: B and D teams final matches (3 May)
The final matches of the season. The title already won by the B team and the challenge was to finish the campaign unbeaten. Early developments were mainly encouraging. The top three boards all seemed very even, and on board four James (F) had a created havoc in James’s (B) centre, winning a pawn and positionally …
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Match Report: Horfield A too good for Bath A (25 April)
The A team's last match of the season was against a Bath team short of a number of regulars (and a full complement of players). Callum won on board 1 against David. This was his third meeting and third win over David this season, which is mightily impressive. A closed position ensued out of the …
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Match Report: C team finish with draw against Hanham (25 April)
Our last match of the season and a trip to the home of Tom Cribb, although we managed to get through our match with only limited bare-knuckle boxing. Mike and Barry on board 6 finished first. Mike allowed Barry to build a frightening kingside attack and had to give up queen for rook to hold …
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Match Report: Horfield B cruise on against South Bristol A (20 April)
A trip to South Bristol on Thursday for the unbeaten and already Division 2 champions. On board 1 Phil took a pleasant space advantage and control of the centre out of the opening. Tony tried to undermine d5 with b5 but it was a miscalculation as Phil was just set the task of deciding which …
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Match Reports: Horfield A demolish Bath A and the D team crash to Downend E (both 19 April)
The A team season ends with a double-header versus Bath. The rearranged away fixture produced a very satisfactory result. On board 1 David and Callum ended up in a French type pawn structure with the white king castling kingside and the black king queenside. The race was on. Callum sacrificed his b pawn on b6 to …
Match Report: Horfield A vs Downend A (12 April): Coming up a little short
Two evenly balanced teams. We were at full strength and Downend A were without Aron but managed to find a reasonable replacement calling on the services of Rob Thompson for the first time this season. We got nothing out of boards 1 and 2. On 2 Oscar got the better of Matias in the all-Spanish …
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Match Report: Horfield C vs Downend D (11 April): Not one to remember for too long
Not our finest night. We started boldly by giving our visitors a 1-0 advantage on board one and from there it didn’t get a whole lot better. On board two Joaquim had the better of his game against Alan until the end of it. White had won the exchange and dominated the seventh rank but …
Horfield at the Bristol Congress
The first congress since pre-pandemic. An excellently organised and attended event. Credit to Igor and his arbiters. In the Open Steve and Phil were competing. Steve was unbeaten tying for 5th on 3.5 points and Phil finished on 50% with 2.5 points. In the U1900 section Judd, Piotr, Joaquim and Pete were taking part. We …
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