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Away Team |
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23/02/2011 |
Bath |
A |
2 1/2 |
Downend |
B |
3 1/2 |
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Board |
Player |
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Score |
Player |
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Score |
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1 |
Buckley, David |
0.5 |
Greely, Simon M |
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0.5 |
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2 |
Musson, A |
0 |
Ponter, Ian |
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1 |
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3 |
Gregory, Andrew M |
0.5 |
Hennefeld, James |
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0.5 |
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4 |
Stirling, Adam |
0.5 |
Tipper, David I |
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0.5 |
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5 |
Husband, Tony |
0.5 |
Munn, Andrew |
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0.5 |
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6 |
Sage, Anthony |
0.5 |
Spiller, Paul |
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0.5 |
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Needing some vital points to avoid a relegation battle with South
Bristol 'A' , our B team performed well against an under strength
Bath team who were missing their ever present board two Jim Sherwin.
First to finish was James who appeared to have a solid position that
was worth minimum a draw. Paul on bottom board was playing an
opponent that kept falling asleep ! an off putting affair or an
advantage .. which one I'm not sure but the sleeping Anthony Sage
pulled off a draw with the white pieces to leave the match level
with 4 games to play. Next to repeat the drawing run was me
after a four knights petered out into equality .. computer engines
were giving me a slight edge but the digital clock persuaded me that
it might be best to accept a draw unless my name is Ian Ponter of
course !.
Three games gone and Three draws. Simon Greely meanwhile was
involved in a tussle on top board with David Buckley who had given
up a piece with what seemed to be insufficient compensation. Simon
returned the piece trying to send the game into a drawn QR ending
and cut it incredibly fine on the clock as he steered the game into
a RP v R but with Simon's King covering the queening square and able
to block any checks on the back rank his prayers were answered with
only 1 second left on his clock, when David Buckley decided
it wasn't his cup of tea to win in what was a known drawn position -
A fourth draw !.
This moved the focus on to Ian's game on the adjacent board two, Ian
by this time had managed to infiltrate with his Rook behind enemy
lines and pawns became easy targets as he smoothly wrapped up the
game with 1 min rather than 1 sec left !
With Downend ahead by this win and only needing a draw from the
final game involving Andrew Munn who had agreed to play for us at
short notice, it was a case of who and how we were going to get the
message that we only needed a draw to win the match. James
solved this problem ! and I've never seen a game end in a draw so
fast as Andrew who had possibly the better position wrapped up
proceedings to end the night off with a very handy win.
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