Post by Nick on Jan 2, 2012 23:03:20 GMT
A very much delayed match report from our history-redefining win against Essex. With an overall match score of 13-3, it would be much quicker to highlight those who didn't win. However, that would mean dwelling on my rather limp draw, so I'll skirt around that.
The results started normally with a draw from John Woolley but soon fired up with a early win (at around 3:30pm/ 26 moves) for Greg Breed. Greg played white out of a Sicilian Dragon with a Maroczy bind setup, cramping him into total submission with a doubled rook on e6 which quickly picked up his e7 pawn forking king and queen.
After the obligatory captures on e7, Greg forked the king and and the misplaced bishop on b2 leaving me with a still dominant position and material up.
This was soon followed by a win for Nigel Colter who had the dubious privilege of playing black against the only junior in the Essex team. The fireworks started on move 2 with the Anglo-Dutch Hickman Gambit and after a series of forcing moves the uncastled White king was mated on the 19th.
Michael Price's opponent played the French and was being positionally crushed when Mike blundered the exchange, screwed up my position to win the exchange back (but was still losing), but then he blundered and resigned. Michael remarks that this represented "Abysmal play from both sides" - but I'm sure he's just being his usual bashful self.
Steve Sonnis snaffled his opponent's g-pawn, thinking that it may have been rather poisonous, but it turned out to be edible. Remaining a pawn up, but with opposite colour bishops, he eventually managed to establish a pair of passed pawns on the e and f files and converted smoothly from there.
David Razzell had black in a Kings Indian Defence. His opponent who turned up over an hour late (hey it takes me 2 months to write a report!) chose to play non challenging developing moves with the hope of avoiding a complex position. However this allowed black an easy ride. He lost 2 pawns without compensation and resigned in a hopeless position, desperately short of time and with his Bishop about to drop.
Frank Zurstiege's opponent made a small error early on allowing Frank to castle long mount a nice King side attack with the H and G pawns rumbling towards his opponent's king. The final blow came on move 32 when, in his opponent's time trouble, Frank was able to open the long diagonal for the bishop to pin rook on f3 to king on h1, inducing resignation.
Richard Thursby played an open Sicilian with a thematic ...d5 break that resulted in black's major pieces being tripled on the d-file. Pressure on d4 eventually led to the win of a pawn and simplification into a rook and pawn ending that was by no means won for black, but white made a number of tactical errors that accelerated black's progress to an eventual win.
Our other winners on the day were Simon Healeas, Peter Morton, Keith Jones and David McNish. I'm afraid that I don't recall what happened in these games, but well played all round!
Thanks to everyone for trekking out to Wanstead and also for your contributions to the match report. Our next match is at home against Surrey on the 28th January.
The results started normally with a draw from John Woolley but soon fired up with a early win (at around 3:30pm/ 26 moves) for Greg Breed. Greg played white out of a Sicilian Dragon with a Maroczy bind setup, cramping him into total submission with a doubled rook on e6 which quickly picked up his e7 pawn forking king and queen.
After the obligatory captures on e7, Greg forked the king and and the misplaced bishop on b2 leaving me with a still dominant position and material up.
This was soon followed by a win for Nigel Colter who had the dubious privilege of playing black against the only junior in the Essex team. The fireworks started on move 2 with the Anglo-Dutch Hickman Gambit and after a series of forcing moves the uncastled White king was mated on the 19th.
Michael Price's opponent played the French and was being positionally crushed when Mike blundered the exchange, screwed up my position to win the exchange back (but was still losing), but then he blundered and resigned. Michael remarks that this represented "Abysmal play from both sides" - but I'm sure he's just being his usual bashful self.
Steve Sonnis snaffled his opponent's g-pawn, thinking that it may have been rather poisonous, but it turned out to be edible. Remaining a pawn up, but with opposite colour bishops, he eventually managed to establish a pair of passed pawns on the e and f files and converted smoothly from there.
David Razzell had black in a Kings Indian Defence. His opponent who turned up over an hour late (hey it takes me 2 months to write a report!) chose to play non challenging developing moves with the hope of avoiding a complex position. However this allowed black an easy ride. He lost 2 pawns without compensation and resigned in a hopeless position, desperately short of time and with his Bishop about to drop.
Frank Zurstiege's opponent made a small error early on allowing Frank to castle long mount a nice King side attack with the H and G pawns rumbling towards his opponent's king. The final blow came on move 32 when, in his opponent's time trouble, Frank was able to open the long diagonal for the bishop to pin rook on f3 to king on h1, inducing resignation.
Richard Thursby played an open Sicilian with a thematic ...d5 break that resulted in black's major pieces being tripled on the d-file. Pressure on d4 eventually led to the win of a pawn and simplification into a rook and pawn ending that was by no means won for black, but white made a number of tactical errors that accelerated black's progress to an eventual win.
Our other winners on the day were Simon Healeas, Peter Morton, Keith Jones and David McNish. I'm afraid that I don't recall what happened in these games, but well played all round!
Thanks to everyone for trekking out to Wanstead and also for your contributions to the match report. Our next match is at home against Surrey on the 28th January.