Established 1942. Seven times Bristol & District league Champions
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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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Horfield & Redland Chess Club 