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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Match reports from w/c 24 Feb
Two home matches on Tuesday. Two wins A team report (thanks Phil) The same opening move was played on every board. I’m not sure what the rules say about pairs of boards continuing to copy each other’s moves to ensure a 3-3 drawn match but thankfully this wasn’t put to the test. I came out …
B, D, F teams in action (w/c 3 Feb)
Three matches during the week; two draws and a loss. Firstly the B team drew away against the unbeaten Grendel. Andy took on Dave on board 1. White had allowed black to exchange his dark-squared bishop for the white knight on c3, which enabled black to set up a dark-squared blockade. Dave had much the better …
Reports for the week of 27 Jan
We've been on a tremendous run since mid November; our teams have won 15 and drawn two matches since our last loss. But this week was a little bit less stellar. E team win. It started well with a super result away to Clevedon on Monday. Duncan took a draw on top board and Joaquim, …
MKO matches: some you win, some you lose
Two Minor Knock-out matches this week. On Monday we disappointingly lost out to Grendel. Andy overcame Dave Osbourne and Alan won his game against late replacement Jack. Elsewhere not so good. Mike fell into a opening trap and was done by 8 and Brent, Scott, and Ashish couldn’t get anything from their games. On Tuesday …
Bristol New Year Congress: King of the Hill
We had six players at the inaugural New Year Congress. It was a strong tournament with 11 players over 2100 and 19 over 2000. The standout performance was from Andy who won the whole show by a clear point with 6.5 out of 7 and a performance rating of almost 2400. He won six in …
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Chess this week (w/c 14 December)
Two matches this week, two wins. On Monday the D team had a comfortable win at Portishead. A second win out of two for Duncan, Piotr taking his unbeaten run to five games and Scott extending his excellent record this season to 6-4-1 (+5). We missed out on a clean sweep as Mike, unfortunately, got …
Horfield & Redland Chess Club 