Chandlers Ford A V Southampton B

Press / Admin Comment

A close match with all the games being hard fought. I did not see much of board five, but it seems Philip's Queen was trapped and this was the first game to finish, with Southampton taking an early lead. When I looked at board one both players had taken their opponents Rook and a1 and h8 with a Knight. I had no idea what was going on. In the end Iwan came out on top. On board two both players used a lot of time in a complex opening, a draw was agreed in the mutual time scramble. On board three a King's Indian opening was played and White slightly overextended and Black won a pawn. A positional squeeze followed although both players dropped below 5 minutes. Finally Black won a Bishop on top of a couple more pawns and Dave resigned. Board four was another game which reached a time scramble. White had sacrificed a pawn in the opening, but Black seemed to have the better of the game, but not enough to win.

Graham Stuart