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Our rearranged fixture from December against Hanham was played last night and saw the uptick in the C team’s results continue. In the battle of the Kirks on board 6 James, playing his first game after a short break, gave Richard absolutely nothing. White accurately piled on the pressure, kept black’s king in the centre, …
Continue reading "Match reports: C team beats Hanham and D team loses to Grendel B (24 January)"
It was very cold on Monday on the hillside above Clevedon, coats, gloves, visible breathing, so in an impressive display of hardiness 12 brave chess-players battled out a drawn match in division 1. Callum on Board 1 and Steve on board 4 started proceedings with draws. Steve had the advantage of the bishop pair into …
Two cup games during the week. Meh. Firstly Horfield 2 on Wednesday. In the last round we’d managed to squeeze past Cabot with only four players. This time we had a full team so that was a plus. But as it turned out there wasn't a lot else to be delighted by. Dave and I …
Continue reading "Match Reports: Two MKO matches: Neither glorious."
The unbeaten B team travelled to North Bristol for their first match after Christmas. Being top athletes I was confident they wouldn’t be affected by a surfeit of mince pies and lampreys. Games began apart from board two where John found his focus drifting to other things until Debs arrived just before the cut off. …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield B vs North Bristol A (5 January): Marching on"
A new year, teeming rain, but everyone arrived on time in reasonable spirits. Downend brought a large team of support staff whom joined us for a couple of hours of friendly chess whilst the combatants duked it out upstairs. Boards three and four were played to junior time limits. On three Graham won a bishop …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield D vs Downend E (3 January): Still unbeaten"
A hard fought match. South Bristol came with a really strong team but generously chose to give us a time advantage on boards 2 and 4 as Richard and Tony both arrived after eight. Being reasonable sorts we consented to games being played; after all if you’ve turned up to play chess you might as …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield B vs South Bristol A (6 December): Honours even"
I like the Jackson social club, good parking, quiet and spacious playing area, well priced bar. So was more than happy to act as a sub for Alex's D team. Board one finished first. James hadn’t been able to free his position out of the opening and struggled to find good squares for his pieces. …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield D vs Yate B (6 December): Cruising"
Keynsham had a couple of their stalwarts on boards one and two, neither originally due to play, but they were short of players for the evening. As one would expect John and Duncan were too strong for Alex and Mike. Joaquim had a quiet night on board three and Harry was far too good for …
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The C team has been on a pretty poor run of form and a trip to Downend’s Cross Hands fortress is rarely a good way to try to rediscover winning ways. We were short of regulars so had made up numbers from the B and D team squads. Nigel was guesting for us on top …
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