Match Report: Horfield D vs Bath C (21 February): Honours even

Bath’s C team is one of the new teams formed for the second half of the season, it is great to see more teams and more people playing competitive chess. Horfield took the lead early when Kana won his game very quickly. Jayden with king still in the centre decided to push at Kana’s pieces …

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Match Reports: A and C team in action (14 February): Insert own Valentine’s Day clichés

Close on the scorecard but Downend were worthy winners. We were without our top two but Downend didn’t have Indy and Graham so neither side had a full complement. On board one Derek tried to undermine Michael’s system with an early e5 but it allowed white to play e4 and d5 to gain a strong …

Match Report: Horfield C vs Bath B (8 February): Close but not quite

We lost. I expected we would but it could have been very different as we pushed the best team in the division all the way. So after some typical Bath specific ‘where did you park?’ chat we settled into a really entertaining match. On board 1 Luke and Clive were testing each other’s theoretical knowledge …

4th Bristol Blitz

We had eight players at the Blitz to play eleven rounds of 5+3. 79 players and a really good event put on by Igor. Thank you Igor. Usual mix of blunders, overlooked ideas and the occasional bit of cleverness. Callum was our best scoring player with 7/11 with Phil and Rob on 6.5. Mike and …

Match Report: Horfield A vs University A (2 February): Very much in the title race

We lost the home fixture 4-2 so were hoping for a better result this time to keep us in the title race. Two draws first on boards 4 and 5. On 5 Peter was sharp out of the opening against Ian and obtained a slight advantage. Opposite side castling was followed by a pawn storm on …

Match reports: C team beats Hanham and D team loses to Grendel B (24 January)

Our rearranged fixture from December against Hanham was played last night and saw the uptick in the C team’s results continue. In the battle of the Kirks on board 6 James, playing his first game after a short break, gave Richard absolutely nothing. White accurately piled on the pressure, kept black’s king in the centre, …