Bishops V Bandits

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Rob Willington tested positive for covid last minute so could not attend the night giving Paul the automatic win. Paul played Alex in a friendly and got a draw. Paolo played very well and blasted Femi off the board. Peter then managed to get an excellent win against Tony, Tony has had a rotten tournament, though hopefully he is getting them out of his system ready for the season. This left one final game. Stefan has been 4/4 on board 3 having an incredible tournament. It was time to give him a tougher opponent so Dennis stepped up. Dennis played the opening poorly though wasn't punished however no matter what trap Dennis set Stefan refused to fall into them. This eventually became an endgame of knight and 5 pawns versus knight and 5 pawns though there were times when both sides were potentially winning. Now it was a game of could Dennis pressure Stefan into making a mistake. Dennis had 40 minutes on the clock and Stefan was running out of time. Unfortunately for Dennis he could never find a timely sacrifice to blow it open and Stefan played very accurately meaning it eventually was a dead draw which was agreed. A fantastic result for Stefan, completely blowing my expectations out of the water and showing a remarkable increase of strength since the start of the summer.

Daniel Miles