Author: peterdmarks

Two home matches. Two defeats. Meh. The B team came up the wrong side of the result against Bath B. Early results saw Rob benefiting from an opening blunder from Stephen to win his game but Mike and John lost their matches. John was galled to have worked out his next two moves but played …

Continue reading "Matches for w/c 4 November"

We had 16 last night for our blitz tournament. Matias won the top section with 6.5/7 (the dropped half-point gives him something to work on I suppose) and Scott won the second section with a perfect score. We’ll do it again.

Both teams were missing some players.  We had Steve and Peter were otherwise engaged, scoring well at the Guernsey International Chess Festival, but our strong supporting cast meant that we were still favourites. Those of us who blinked missed the game on board 1.  After playing a few opening moves I looked up to see the …

Continue reading "Match report: A team beat University A (17 Oct)"

Three matches this week. Two wins and a loss. A team report: 16 Sep away to Clevedon A Match preparations focussed on the perils of the unheated venue.  Some heeded the warnings, bringing various fleeces and coats, but the September weather was kind and it was nice to see the cricket club in daylight for …

Continue reading "Match reports from w/c 16 September"

With the B team in division 2 this season we’re able to put out strong MKO teams and our hope/expectation is for decent runs this year. We won both matches last night but whilst the scorelines look comfortable the matches had degrees of tension. Horfield 1 vs South Bristol: We took an early lead in …

Continue reading "MKO wins (19 Sept)"

The third year in a row we’ve travelled to Bath in the first round of the Big Cup. 0-2 to date. Like in previous years we were not at our strongest and Einstein’s quote about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result came to mind. Fortunately, Bath were weaker …

Continue reading "Match report: Finally a Cup victory at Bath (4 Sept)"

Off to North Bristol for the first match of the season and a 3-1 triumph. Wins for Ash, Scott, and Graham with Mike missing out in a close game.

Bit of a round up from the last couple of weeks. On Tuesday the C team did what we needed to do. We beat Hanham. Not always comfortably but we got the job done and have set up a promotion showdown against Clevedon next week. Jack got the ball rolling on board six. Barry got …

Continue reading "Matches from the last two weeks"

Hmmm. Well a consolation is we've lost 4 of the 6 by the narrowest of margins. 3-2 it was last night against a pretty strong Grendel. Joe and Rob won their games. Jack, Mike, and Ash didn't. I wonder if there has been a more arts based team than Grendel B last night? A war …

Continue reading "D team fall to sixth straight loss (2 April)"