Preston 3 V Poulton 2

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Board	Rating	Preston 3	V	Poulton 2	Rating
1	141B	Pennington, Geoffrey B	1 - 0	G Fearnhead, Ben	139D
2	132E	Patsos, Charalampos N	0 - 1	G Fearnhead, Paul N	106D
3	119F	Daune, Joss P B	½ - ½	N Gorman, Ken	101A
4	107A	De Santos, Andrew R G	1 - 0	N Hartley, Dave C	098C
Total	499		2½ - 1½		444

Last update geoff pennington Thu 31st Oct 2019 09:30. Reported by geoff pennington Thu 31st Oct 2019 09:30. Verified By

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First to finish was board 2, where white sacrificed a piece to open up black's king, but could not make the attack stick, and the extra material for black eventually won out. This put Poulton ahead, and at this stage the other boards looked even, with, if anything Poulton having the slightly better position in a couple of games. Ken's game with Joss then petered out in a draw, but Preston had fought back well in the other games: getting the better of a prolonged tactical exchange on board 1 to end up with a piece for two pawns which, with precise play, led to a win; and with a very well played endgame on board 4 with Andrew spotting the correct time to switch from pushing a passed pawn to attacking and checkmating Dave's king.

Paul Fearnhead

It has been said that the

It has been said that the winner of a chess game is the player who makes the last-but-one mistake and that`s how Board 1 went. Ben got a space advantage from the opening and I then blundered a pawn. However a few moves later Ben`s oversight was more costly leading to the loss of a piece.

geoff pennington