Not our finest night. We started boldly by giving our visitors a 1-0 advantage on board one and from there it didn’t get a whole lot better. On board two Joaquim had the better of his game against Alan until the end of it. White had won the exchange and dominated the seventh rank but …
Horfield at the Bristol Congress
The first congress since pre-pandemic. An excellently organised and attended event. Credit to Igor and his arbiters. In the Open Steve and Phil were competing. Steve was unbeaten tying for 5th on 3.5 points and Phil finished on 50% with 2.5 points. In the U1900 section Judd, Piotr, Joaquim and Pete were taking part. We …
Match Report: Downend vs Horfield (29 March): KO’d in the Cup
W G Grace. The man who pretty much single-handedly created modern cricket. Certainly the nexus of rising living standards and leisure time, the Victorian mania for codification, and their desire for heroes who embodied the zeitgeist meant he was the right man at the right time. But he was worthy of his status, he was …
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Match Reports: B and D teams in glorious action (21 March)
The onward march of the B team continued with a comprehensive win against Cabot. We started the match 1-0 and very (very) quickly went 2-0 up. Stuart got into a pickle in the opening against James on board 5 and after five moves (1.e4 e5 2.c3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nxe4 4.Nxe5 Qe7 5.Nf3 Nxc3+) the game …
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Match Report: Horfield C vs South Bristol B (16 March): Honours even
A fast paced match at the Folk centre on Thursday. James and Freddie were first to finish on board six, James lost a piece early, didn’t recover and it was done. On board 4 Scott levelled the match by winning against Chris. Black had launched a speculative knight expedition followed by a queen check causing …
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Match Report: Horfield A vs Grendel A (14 March): Sigh
You take them into you house, you provide them with a roof over their heads, provide them succour and charity like Pero, and yet, and yet, it turns out like this. Needing a win to keep our outside title chances alive we were without Callum and Peter but still had a healthy grading advantage. However …
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Match Report: Horfield B vs Downend C (8 March): One step closer
Snow had turned to rain but it was still bad enough in Wiltshire for Downend to be without the services of Mr Williams. This meant we had an even clearer grading advantage across all the boards but everyone knows Downend battle and it would have been foolish to take anything for granted. The match as …
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Match Report: Horfield C vs Clifton B (7 March): Outclassed
The end of our remote hopes of finishing top two. Clifton arrived with a team strong enough to be near the top of division 2 let alone division 3 and we did reasonably well to get any points at all. Mark and I played an even opening into a closed middle game where the contest …
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Match Report: Horfield D fall to University C (2 March)
A rare defeat for the D team. Joaquim got us off to a great start on board two where he was pleased with the position out of the opening. He then lined up bishop and queen against white’s king which had castled long side and then used his pawns to kick away the defending pieces to …
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Horfield & Redland Chess Club 