Horfield & Redland Chess Club

  Horfield              Clifton 1. Derek Pugh        0-1 Chris Beaumont2. Paul Helbig       0.5 Zygimantas Svitojus3. Steve Dilleigh    0-1 Gareth Morris4. Peter Kirby       0-1 John Curtis5. Matias Candelario 0-1 Duncan Grossett6. Mike Harris       1-0 Dave Collier7. Dominic Tunks     0-1 Mark Dirnhuber8. Bob Radford       0-1 Igor Doklestic                   1.5 – 6.5 We were strengthened the night before as Dominic became …

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   North Bristol  A       Horfield A  Graham Iwi   0-1 Derek Pugh2, Mike Fielding  0-1 Peter Kirby 3, Richard Millener   0-1 Steve Dilleigh , 4. Steve Woolgar   0-1 Philip Nendick, 5. Debaditya Dasgupta 0.5 John Richards, 6. William Mullaney  1-0 Bob Radford       1.5 – 4.5 The A team had a convincing win against North Bristol A. The top …

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Anton Muller (143)0-1Nigel Pollett (138)James Aldred (141)0-1Peter Marks (126)Robert Smolka (118)1-0Piotr Zielinski (113)Simon Dunphy (UNG)0.5-0.5Mike Jennings (99)David Budd (111)0-1Johnny Zeng (81)Alan Warne (103)0.5-0.5Kana Balasubramaniam (68)Clifton2-4Horfield We played Clifton C in the league earlier this season and lost 5-1. We were out-graded on all boards that night and we were again this time round. James came …

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Horfield B 4-2 Grendel A 1.Krzyzanowski 0-1 Gilbert, 2. Helbig 5-5 Humphries 3.Candelario 1-0 Furnevall, 4. Dilleigh 1-0 Flexman, 5.Richards 1-0, 5. Attar 5-5 Radford. The B's went top of division one last night for at least 24 hours before Bath A play Clevedon A. It may be short lived affair as by the time …

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Six players represented Horfield Chess Club in the 2nd Open Blitz Championship on 25th November. Rd 11. Phil In Action Against The Legendary Jim Sherwin IM Phil Nendick came 7th scoring 7.5, Derek Pugh 12th with 6.5, . Piotr Zieliński 25th with 6, Peter Marks 47th with 4.5 Kanagasabai Balasubramaniam 56th with 3.0, and Mike …

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Denis Fradkin (156)10Tom Homes (140)Dorian Schiefer (UNG)10Prakash Chatterjee (130)Oli Clarke (147)01Peter Marks (126)Conor Newton (107)01Alex Dunn (106)Carmel Barwick (UNG)01Graham Strickland (103)Chris Kaye (109)10Kana Balasubramanian (68)University B33Horfield D We all arrived on time, helped set up and got off to a dreadful start. Prakash against a French Advance touched his h pawn rather than his f6 …

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Horfield C 2.5-3.5 Cabot C 1.Levine 1/2 -Turner, 2.Radford 1-0 Muscarano, 3. Pollett 1-0 Jones, 4.Holmes 0-1 Marston. 5.Chatterjee 0-1 Ratnoo 6. Zielinski 0-1 Drummond Horfield C, in much need of points came up against a Cabot A team missing their top player. It was always going to be a tough match. Half way though …

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 Horfield A            Clevedon A 1. Derek Pugh        0-1 Peter Chaplin2. Peter Kirby       0.5 Max Walker2. Mike Harris       0-1 David Painter-Kooiman4. Matias Candelario 0.5 Matthew Wilson5. Philip Nendick    0-1 David Peters6. Pete Marks        0.5 Chris Strong                   1.5 – 4.5 It goes without saying that Clevedon's belief in themselves is to be admired as they fear no one. …

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Downend B 2-4 Horfield B 1.Steven Meek 05 Paul Helbig 2. Andrew Cooper 05 Michael Levene 3.Oliver Stubbs 0-1 Matias Perez Candelario 4.Michael Brigden 05 John Richards 5.Andrew Munn 0-1 Robert P Radford 6. Ian Pickup 05 Nigel Pollett Last night we travelled to the Downend HQ at the Cross Hands pub without top board …

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