Tuesday saw the B team and the E team playing at home. The B team were up against University A and fell in the last game of the match with Nigel unable to hold on in the end game. Good win for Mike on board 2 and a creditable draw with the black pieces on …
D team crash and F team remain unbeaten (w/c 20 October)
Two matches last week. The D team took their unbeaten record to North Bristol but got a bit of a tonking going down 5.5-.5 with only Judd on top board managing to trouble the scorers. Match card here for those with a strong stomach. The positive was Jason played his first match for us, welcome …
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The week in chess (w/c 13 October)
Four matches this week The A team came up just short against Downend A in their third close match in a row. Andy H was a last minute replacement for Matias on board 1 and battled long and hard against Oli but wasn’t able to hold the endgame. Derek won our only full point on board 3. …
Updates on the season so far
Righteo, I've been a bit remiss in providing updates. So let's try to get up to speed. The A team has played two, winning one and losing one. We lost a close one to Bath but pleasingly got the better of a strong Clevedon team with Matias bringing home the points from a piece down …
A new season; early results in
Golly, the summer gone in the blink of an eye. The season has started already and I'm somewhat late to the job of updating news. So three matches already: The MKO (we are of course defending champions) started things off with our two teams drawn against each other. A close fought match saw Horfield 1 …
April Round-up
A whistle-stop round-up of the action in April The A team drew their final match of the season to at least guarantee second in the league and take themselves a point clear at the top of division 1. Fingers crossed Downend B can do us an (unlikely) favour next week. Derek and Steve with wins and an …
Match reports and the Bristol Congress
The A team won against Downend B to keep themselves in the title race (although they need other results to go their way). Scorecard here and pithy report from Phil below We were decent favourites on paper but at 9pm I couldn't see where we’d be getting the points. Matias had sacrificed a piece for …
Match for w/c 10 March
Two matches this week. See below for Phil's A team report for the match vs Bath. Match card. Bath put out a surprisingly strong team, heavily outgrading us on the top 3 so a drawn match would seem to be a good result but in the end this was one that got away. The venue’s …
Match reports from w/c 3 March. Some highs, some lows
Three matches on Tuesday this week The B team had a really tough night against fellow promotion chasers South Bristol. Mike got caught in traffic putting us 1-0 down. Andy let his advantages slip away with an exchange of queens and then a blunder against Freddie. Brent (in a tragi-comedy way) fell for the same …
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