Established 1942. Seven times Bristol & District league Champions
For second night in a row the stronger team demonstrated that stronger teams are stronger because they are stronger. We were out-gunned in particular on boards 4-6 and went 3-0 down. James had a promising attack but a rook sac turned out to be unsound. We were equal on the top three boards but overall …
Continue reading "Match Report: University A vs Horfield A (14 October): Students too good."
Taking three players to play a much stronger team seemed bold as a strategy but always do what your opponent least expects... I was quite relieved that by 8.30 we were all still playing. I had an equal middle game position against Peter, Mike looked a little under pressure against Stephen with white’s pieces much …
Continue reading "Match Report: Downend C vs Horfield B (13 October): Better players, more players"
The first of three matches for Horfield this week. Mikey’s 100% record this season obviously spooked Cabot’s board 2 so much he wasn’t able to make the match so 1-0 by 8pm. Board 3 was the first game to finish; Piotr had equalised comfortably out of the opening into a middle game with unbalanced pawns …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield C vs Cabot A (12 October): Honours even."
A terrific win for our A team on a wet and windy night. Phil’s match finished first as he eased past David to win it in 17 moves. Derek on board one was next to finish coming out the wrong side of a double rook ending (Carl’s rooks were on the 7th). On board three …
Continue reading "Match Report: Clevedon A vs Horfield A (4 October): A team off the mark."
We were one of two matches at the Folk House on Thursday as well as a number of games of friendly chess being played in the other room; it was good to see the club so busy with chess. It looked to me as if we were doing OK across all the boards out of …
Continue reading "Match Report: South Bristol A v Horfield C (30 September): Losing on the road."
We expected to be mainly out-graded on the night and Clevedon confirmed our expectations by arriving with a strong team. The first result of the night was Oliver beating Alex. A very open game became even more fluid when Alex castled long into the teeth of Oliver’s advancing pawns, which promptly broke through. Sadly for …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield B v Clevedon B (28 September): Strength in depth counts."
Our first A team game of the season against a strong Downend team who had already played a match against their B team this season. I am confident over at Downend Towers they will have created a report with accurate technical analysis of the match based on having seen the games in question rather than …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield A vs Downend A (21 September): Coming up short."
You wait 18 months for a chess match then two come along in consecutive days. Four boards, four vastly different openings. Clive and James played a Sveshnikov, it looked like theory through the first 10 moves or so and James was eyeing the d5 square as you would expect, probably even. On board 2 Paul …
Glory be. Chess. I must have missed the feature on the late-night national news but it felt meaningful to me. From the openings and into the middle games the balance felt like it was marginally with Horfield. Mike L and Brian were positionally sparring in a QGD where Mike had accepted the IQP; it looked …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield C vs Clevedon C (14 September): We’re back!"
