Wimborne C V Highcliffe C

A good evening's play by both

A good evening's play by both Teams with 3 of the Games 1-2&4 being very unbalanced and exciting to watch . The 1st to finish was Steve's board 2 game where he'd managed to get his opponents King out of cover . Eventually the position of Andrews King was too difficult to hold with the Queens on the board . My game wasnt so exciting with control of the C File being the main tustle and trying to keep white marauding Black Bishop from attacking stranded A&B Pawns , eventually the Queens came off and White Black Bishop did the damage . Board 4 was an exciting affair with unbalanced play where both players had good chances. Eventually Stuart got 2 passed Pawns rolling and this proved decisive . The last game to finish was board 1 where again a very unbalanced situation made it hard to see or understand who had the advantage , The game was getting into the marathon stages with Nathaniel having a double central pawn + Knight vs a King and Rook . It looked hard for White to win and eventaull after move 83 they agreed a draw giving the match win to Wimborne . In all a good evenings play by both Teams and thanks to Highcliffe for making the Journey on a dark cold January night - g

Graham Hillman

Thank you Wimborne for

Thank you Wimborne for hosting an exciting evening of Chess, Stephen got an advantage in the opening, and I burned too much time getting back to equality, after which I was chasing the game, and Stephen played precisely to get the advantage. Neil's game on board 3 looked even for most of the match, but he deployed his minor pieces well to get a pawn and positional advantage to win the endgame. Matthew won the exchange early on, but Nathaniel battled back well winning 2 pawns and ending with a doubled pawn and Knight vs Rook endgame which ended in an 80+move draw. Susan and Stuart fought a close positional battle, with connected passed pawns winning it for Stuart. Wimborne ended worthy winners in an enjoyable evening.

Andrew Manson