Four matches this week The A team came up just short against Downend A in their third close match in a row. Andy H was a last minute replacement for Matias on board 1 and battled long and hard against Oli but wasn’t able to hold the endgame. Derek won our only full point on board 3. …
Updates on the season so far
Righteo, I've been a bit remiss in providing updates. So let's try to get up to speed. The A team has played two, winning one and losing one. We lost a close one to Bath but pleasingly got the better of a strong Clevedon team with Matias bringing home the points from a piece down …
A new season; early results in
Golly, the summer gone in the blink of an eye. The season has started already and I'm somewhat late to the job of updating news. So three matches already: The MKO (we are of course defending champions) started things off with our two teams drawn against each other. A close fought match saw Horfield 1 …
April Round-up
A whistle-stop round-up of the action in April The A team drew their final match of the season to at least guarantee second in the league and take themselves a point clear at the top of division 1. Fingers crossed Downend B can do us an (unlikely) favour next week. Derek and Steve with wins and an …
Match reports and the Bristol Congress
The A team won against Downend B to keep themselves in the title race (although they need other results to go their way). Scorecard here and pithy report from Phil below We were decent favourites on paper but at 9pm I couldn't see where we’d be getting the points. Matias had sacrificed a piece for …
Match for w/c 10 March
Two matches this week. See below for Phil's A team report for the match vs Bath. Match card. Bath put out a surprisingly strong team, heavily outgrading us on the top 3 so a drawn match would seem to be a good result but in the end this was one that got away. The venue’s …
Match reports from w/c 3 March. Some highs, some lows
Three matches on Tuesday this week The B team had a really tough night against fellow promotion chasers South Bristol. Mike got caught in traffic putting us 1-0 down. Andy let his advantages slip away with an exchange of queens and then a blunder against Freddie. Brent (in a tragi-comedy way) fell for the same …
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Match reports from w/c 24 Feb
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 …
This week – three matches, three wins. Nice
Firstly the B team vs Yate A Even with three C team players the B team were too good for Yate. Andy had played Lawrence at the Clevedon Congress in January and had won after a long grind. For a while he was worried the position was going to get too blocked to get a …
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