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The second of our MKO games this week. We took four players with us, which many would say is a high-risk strategy. I knew about one default before the match and had let Alastair know, the second not. As it happened one of Cabot’s players failed to show making the deficit slightly more manageable. Pleasingly …
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The first of our two MKO games this week. On board one a slog of a middle game had been reached; it looked pretty difficult for either side to make progress. John had a space advantage but Igor had well structured pawns making any pawn-breaks difficult for white and no obvious entry points or outposts. …
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Barely into autumn and the first round of the Cup has arrived. We took a strong team to Bath and expected if we could hold their big guns on the top boards we should have the edge further down. As it turned we did rather better than just hold the top boards. Callum gambited a pawn …
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A decent first outing for the D team. Mike played a mainly even game but James held an advantage in the endgame but blundered his rook and from there it was easy for Mike. Harry probably had an edge into the middlegame but Leon manoeuvred well and built a winning position. However black was very …
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A short road trip to Redland Green. Igor had been trying to arrange a team from his holiday in Croatia and managed to get 5 together, pleasingly he had kept us informed prior to the match so we knew the situation beforehand. I didn’t see much of the games; by the time I’d arrived boards …
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A new season! We had significantly higher ratings across all six boards against Clevedon but they have a track record of pulling results out of the bag. Looking at the games early most of them seemed balanced and as it happened most of the games went the distance. Steve finished first on board 3 and …
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 ‘patzer’ trophy for the best under 1700 graded player. 18 players turned out over the two evenings and much thanks to Phil for organising us and Peter …
We expected to be outgraded at the top of the board order and have the advantage lower down; the hope was we’d win enough in the bottom half to take the match. This was not how it turned out. First to finish, after only 40 minutes or so, was board 3. Aimee lost a pawn …
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Ah, the Big Cup. Downend, as they always are, were very strong all the way down the boards, but the absence of Stephen give us some hope. The team sheets suggested we’d need to score our points in the top half of the draw and hope to get something from boards 5-8. First to finish …
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