Fareham B V Chandlers Ford A

SCL Div 2 Tue 21st Nov 2023 00:00 Winner: Draw   Verify
Board Rating Fareham B V Chandlers Ford A Rating
1869 Deacon, Matthew
G
½ - ½
G
Holmes, David J
1761
1881 Deacon, David J
G
½ - ½
G
Stuart, Graham
1754
1882 Janota, Paul S
G
1 - 0
G
Jones, Eric M
1755
1838 Coburn, Joseph A
G
½ - ½
G
Mills, Andrew N
1655
1701 Philidor, Thomas
G
0 - 1
G
Eales, Peter J
1480
Average 1835 2½ - 2½ 1681

Last update Graham Stuart Tue 21st Nov 2023 23:42. Reported by Graham Stuart Tue 21st Nov 2023 23:42. Verified By

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Three games were fairly quickly drawn, leaving these players to watch two exciting and complicated games. Eric had a big attack, but had sacrificed a lot of material to get this and some careful manoeuvring by Paul brought his Knight back into the game which brought him the point. This left Peter with a very nice position against Tom, but there were certainly lots of ways to go wrong, especially when Tom's a and b pawns started to move down the board. Also both players were down to a couple of minutes + 10 seconds, but some careful calculation by Peter saw him stop the pawns progressing and his own g and h pawns carried the day. With Chandler's Ford missing Iwan Cave, who is playing for Wales in the World Youth Championship in Italy, and being outrated heavily on every board we were very pleased to draw the match.

Graham Stuart