Legal V Insurance

Bronowski Trophy 2014-15 Wed 25th Mar 2015 18:30 Winner: Home Verify

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Board	Rating	Legal	V	Insurance	Rating
1	0	Kwiatkowski, Feliks J G	½ - ½	N Farrand, Julian T	0
2	0	Guthrie, David W G	1 - 0	N Warren, Julian	0
3	0	Coles, Steven F G	½ - ½	G Calvert, D Ian	0
4	0	Millward, Kevin P G	1 - 0	P Hunnable, Ian D	0
5	0	Waterman, Howard J B	½ - ½	N Sedgwick, David R	0
6	0	Campbell, Russell P	½ - ½	P Page, Martin C	0
7	0	McGuinness, Andrew B	½ - ½	G Staniland, Philip	0
8	0	Tobisch, John G	1 - 0	G Diffey, William	0
9	0	Walsh, Steven JF N	0 - 1	B Barclay, Paul R	0
10	0	Sachs, Jonathan N	1 - 0	B Kent, Anthony R	0
11	0	Mallin, Max N	0 - 1	G Law, Jeremy	0
12	0	Mather, Howard N	1 - 0	L Paish, Anthony GC	0
			7½ - 4½

Last update Daniel Lindner Tue 5th Dec 2023 11:01. Reported by Daniel Lindner Tue 5th Dec 2023 11:01. Verified By

Match report Legal

Legal managed to win 7½-4½ in the end against competition leaders Insurance, although the match was closer than the scoreline suggests. Highlights for Legal were: Dave Guthrie’s first win for a while in this competition after several near misses – he won a piece and converted comfortably; Howard Mather’s win, making the best use of two minor pieces against a rook in the middle game; John Tobisch coming out on top in a complex strategic game to conclude with a mate in a double rook ending; Jonathan Sachs keeping control of a complex closed Sicilian with some impressive strategy and tactics, and winning a piece and the game in a rook and bishop ending; and Kevin Millward who was last to finish at the very end of the evening – he had been pressing throughout his ending, but with time very short on both sides, the game fluctuated both ways before he won a piece with a Knight fork and forced mate in the last few seconds. An interesting feature is that all the decisive games in this match, 7 games out of the 12, were won by Black. So if my winning the toss and choosing White on the odd boards worked out well, it was in a paradoxical way. Not least, thanks once again to Simmons and Simmons for the use of their superb venue and for their generous hospitality, and to Mieke Botes for all her invaluable assistance, which is always much appreciated. As someone said last night, the playing conditions would match that of any international tournament. -- Steven Coles

Daniel Lindner

Match report Insurance

This match was closely fought with draws initially for Ian Calvert, David Sedgwick and Martin Page. Our two wins came from Paul Barclay, with a lively Albin Counter Gambit, and Jeremy Law in the Grünfeld Defence. Late on, with the match still in the balance, I got caught by a ‘tactic’ in the Grand Prix Attack. Ian Hunnable and his opponent both went for broke in a tense Rook, Knight and pawns ending time scramble. Ian won a pawn, but unfortunately missed a Knight fork, losing in the final seconds. -- Anthony Kent

Daniel Lindner