Club Championship

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 …

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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 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 …