Established 1942. Seven times Bristol & District league Champions
The intra-club derby. A mix of quality and early season rustiness led to a match that swung wildly. Up on board one Peter gained a spatial advantage out of the opening but his white bishop was limited, and exchanges led to the possibility of a good knight vs bad bishop endgame for Matias. On two Steve …
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The first match of the season, our C team at home vs Downend D. Nigel managed to mess up his opening against Ian on board 1 and after many (many) attempts Mr Pickup finally won his first ever game against him. James and Nigel played a no frills (thrills?) game on board 3 and agreed …
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Our club championship took place over two evenings this month. Six 20m+5s games with two trophies up for grabs; the main cup for the overall winner and the grading trophy for the best under 1700 graded player. 19 players turned out over the two evenings and much thanks to Phil for organising us. Derek was …
The final matches of the season. The title already won by the B team and the challenge was to finish the campaign unbeaten. Early developments were mainly encouraging. The top three boards all seemed very even, and on board four James (F) had a created havoc in James’s (B) centre, winning a pawn and positionally …
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The A team's last match of the season was against a Bath team short of a number of regulars (and a full complement of players). Callum won on board 1 against David. This was his third meeting and third win over David this season, which is mightily impressive. A closed position ensued out of the …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield A too good for Bath A (25 April)"
Our last match of the season and a trip to the home of Tom Cribb, although we managed to get through our match with only limited bare-knuckle boxing. Mike and Barry on board 6 finished first. Mike allowed Barry to build a frightening kingside attack and had to give up queen for rook to hold …
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A trip to South Bristol on Thursday for the unbeaten and already Division 2 champions. On board 1 Phil took a pleasant space advantage and control of the centre out of the opening. Tony tried to undermine d5 with b5 but it was a miscalculation as Phil was just set the task of deciding which …
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The A team season ends with a double-header versus Bath. The rearranged away fixture produced a very satisfactory result. On board 1 David and Callum ended up in a French type pawn structure with the white king castling kingside and the black king queenside. The race was on. Callum sacrificed his b pawn on b6 to …
Two evenly balanced teams. We were at full strength and Downend A were without Aron but managed to find a reasonable replacement calling on the services of Rob Thompson for the first time this season. We got nothing out of boards 1 and 2. On 2 Oscar got the better of Matias in the all-Spanish …
Continue reading "Match Report: Horfield A vs Downend A (12 April): Coming up a little short"
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