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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Two matches this week. Two wins. The B team were comfortable winners against Bath C. Wins for Andy, Nigel and both the Mikes. University A team are clear at the top of division 2 but only a point separates second from sixth after 4 matches. Scorecard here. The F team were also at home against …
Tuesday saw the B team and the E team playing at home. The B team were up against University A and fell in the last game of the match with Nigel unable to hold on in the end game. Good win for Mike on board 2 and a creditable draw with the black pieces on …
Two matches last week. The D team took their unbeaten record to North Bristol but got a bit of a tonking going down 5.5-.5 with only Judd on top board managing to trouble the scorers. Match card here for those with a strong stomach. The positive was Jason played his first match for us, welcome …
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