Holmes Chapel Rooks V Newcastle 'B'

Division 2 Thu 30th Nov 2017 00:00 Winner: Unknown Verify

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Board	Rating	Holmes Chapel Rooks	V	Newcastle 'B'	Rating
1	136A (1700A)	Roberts, Malcolm A G	½ - ½	N Jones, Barry	160C ()
2	138B ()	Scattergood, George J N	0 - 1	N Harris, Martyn J	155A ()
3	130A (1648K)	Lee, Michael A G	0 - 1	B Paling, Alan M	149B (1863K)
4	121D (1618K)	Hicks, John B	0 - 1	G Willow, Hambel M	136A (1868A)
5	120* (1443K)	Clifford, Paul G B	0 - 1	G Gissi, Alberto	120* (1636K)
Total	645		½ - 4½		720

Last update Steve Emmerton Sat 2nd Dec 2017 11:57. Reported by Alberto Gissi . Verified By George Scattergood

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Newcastle ran away from Holmes Chapel with a win, taking advantage of the grading gap. The games, strangely enough, finished exactly in the same order of the boards, which means that I can only comment my own game. Despite trying hard to create issues to my opponent the position looked pretty drawish, until Paul decided to push the d pawn a bit too much, giving me an edge that became bigger when the extra pawn became a passed pawn. After several piece exchanges, Paul decided that stopping my pawn was too difficult, so he set up a counterattack which almost worked. Unfortunately for him, despite being a bit short with time (under 1 minute) and with all eyes on me, I spotted and neutralised the threat and pushed the pawn till the seventh rank, at which point Paul resigned.

Alberto Gissi