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 …
This week – three matches, three wins. Nice
Firstly the B team vs Yate A Even with three C team players the B team were too good for Yate. Andy had played Lawrence at the Clevedon Congress in January and had won after a long grind. For a while he was worried the position was going to get too blocked to get a …
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The week in chess (w/c 10 Feb)
Three matches, one win and two tight losses. Not necessarily the match we would have liked to have won. Anyhow. Details on the A team's top of the table clash against Clifton B first: A team vs Clifton B (thanks Phil) Our opponents put out their full team for the first time this season for …
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, …
Three more matches, three more wins
Another 100% week with wins for the B team, D team and the brand new shiny F team. The B team was too strong for Downend C. Our lowest graded player had a higher grade than their top board so credit to them for running us close but wins for Andy, John (a lovely finish) …
A, C, and E teams all winning
A good week for us. 3 matches, 3 wins. The A team top of division 1, the C team up to second and the E team still unbeaten. Oh to be alive in such an age. First up the E team who steamrollered South Bristol C. We did outgrade them but we made it count. …
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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