Two home matches on Tuesday. Two wins A team report (thanks Phil) The same opening move was played on every board. I’m not sure what the rules say about pairs of boards continuing to copy each other’s moves to ensure a 3-3 drawn match but thankfully this wasn’t put to the test. I came out …
B, D, F teams in action (w/c 3 Feb)
Three matches during the week; two draws and a loss. Firstly the B team drew away against the unbeaten Grendel. Andy took on Dave on board 1. White had allowed black to exchange his dark-squared bishop for the white knight on c3, which enabled black to set up a dark-squared blockade. Dave had much the better …
Reports for the week of 27 Jan
We've been on a tremendous run since mid November; our teams have won 15 and drawn two matches since our last loss. But this week was a little bit less stellar. E team win. It started well with a super result away to Clevedon on Monday. Duncan took a draw on top board and Joaquim, …
MKO matches: some you win, some you lose
Two Minor Knock-out matches this week. On Monday we disappointingly lost out to Grendel. Andy overcame Dave Osbourne and Alan won his game against late replacement Jack. Elsewhere not so good. Mike fell into a opening trap and was done by 8 and Brent, Scott, and Ashish couldn’t get anything from their games. On Tuesday …
Bristol New Year Congress: King of the Hill
We had six players at the inaugural New Year Congress. It was a strong tournament with 11 players over 2100 and 19 over 2000. The standout performance was from Andy who won the whole show by a clear point with 6.5 out of 7 and a performance rating of almost 2400. He won six in …
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Chess this week (w/c 14 December)
Two matches this week, two wins. On Monday the D team had a comfortable win at Portishead. A second win out of two for Duncan, Piotr taking his unbeaten run to five games and Scott extending his excellent record this season to 6-4-1 (+5). We missed out on a clean sweep as Mike, unfortunately, got …
Match reports from the last two weeks – four wins, one draw!
Three matches this week - two wins and a draw. Two matches last week - two wins. Well done us. The big one first. A team vs Downend A (courtesy of Phil) We faced a strong Downend team, reinforced with a rising star from the B team, but we were up for the challenge. Board …
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Match reports for this week. A good week.
Three matches two wins and a draw. Well done us. Firstly Phil's A team report. Back top of the table: A team bounces back It had been a rather frantic build-up to the match. Tom was away, stranded by flooding, and at least a dozen B and C team players had been tried before Joe …
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Matches from week of 11 Nov
2 wins and a draw. A decent return The B team squeaked past Clevedon in a match where we had an average 200-point grading advantage. Wins for John and Jeremy against his old muckers and three draws took us home 3.5-2.5 and secured a much-needed win to reboot our season. Card here The C team …
Horfield & Redland Chess Club 