Established 1942. Seven times Bristol & District league Champions
Three matches this week. On Tuesday the A team’s good run of form came to an end against Clifton B. The white pieces on boards 4 and 6 proved to be decisive. Match card here. Also on Tuesday the D team went down to a strong Grendel B in division 4. Joe won his game …
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Two matches last week. The D team took their unbeaten record to North Bristol but got a bit of a tonking going down 5.5-.5 with only Judd on top board managing to trouble the scorers. Match card here for those with a strong stomach. The positive was Jason played his first match for us, welcome …
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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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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