Cabot. The Colosseum. The third fixture of the week for Horfield. Rain outside but the heaters were on so the room was much warmer than it was back in September when we visited last. John had played the night before and Judd, Rob, and Mike weren’t available so a weaker than normal B team. The …
Match reports: A and D teams in action (22 November)
No Matias, no Steve for us, and Downend were without the eternal servant of chess Nigel; looking at the line-ups there was a cigarette paper between the teams. On board one Steve gambitted a pawn early on for a lead in development against Callum. After a little bit of passive play from black the middle game …
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Match Report: Horfield A vs Grendel (17 November): Winning away at home.
A match win to keep us in mix at the top of the table with Downend and the University. The score line was close but we were (probably) always in control. Matias and Jerry drew on board two then we stretched into a lead with Derek winning on board three where he was able to get …
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Match Report: Horfield C vs South Bristol B (15 November)
More evidence of our generous hosting skills last night. Luke had agreed to play board one to test himself after his winning debut for the B team. Gareth has a sharp tactical repertoire with white which requires accurate play from black. Sadly Luke got into trouble early, lost the exchange then with his queenside undeveloped …
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Match Report: Horfield B vs Downend C (8 November)
We had a significant rating advantage across the boards. However there is no such thing as an easy night against any of Downend’s teams and so it proved. On board one John and Stephen had castled opposite sides meaning attacks on opposite wings was the likely outcome. Into the middle game and heavy batteries were …
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Match Report: Horfield D vs Clifton C (8 November)
The D team were at home for the away fixture against a temporarily homeless Clifton C team. Board 1 was first to finish with Ted effectively dealing with Alex’s opening and middle-game approach to put Clifton 1-0 up. However things looked better on the other boards where we looked better on two out of three …
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Match Report: Horfield A vs Clifton A (1 November)
Clifton were 3 from 3 coming into this match but decided they’d challenge themselves by only bringing five players and no James Cobb. On board 1 Callum and Chris played a surprisingly conventional QGD opening. After minor complications in the middlegame, that involved a queen trade, white missed black’s Rd2 attacking bishop and b2 pawn. …
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Peter Kirby’s Liechtenstein
In September Peter was in the wide expanses of Vaduz representing Guernsey and rubbing shoulders with royalty. His report is attached. peter-kirbys-liechtensteinDownload
Match Report: Horfield C vs Clevedon B (1 November)
Being a good host is of course important, the C team has been as generous as any this season. Last night was no exception. Let us start at the beginning (we will finish at the end). On board one I had expected to be playing Stuart. I took advice from better players about approaches and …
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