Southbourne A V Poole A

B&DCL Div 1 Fri 25th Mar 2022 00:00 Winner: Draw Verify

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Board	Rating	Southbourne A	V	Poole A	Rating
1	2080	Simons, Martin J G	½ - ½	N Duggan, Michael FG	2050
2	1968	Laker, Leonard J G	0 - 1	G Weatherlake, John P	1975
3	1863	Catchpole, Jon F G	½ - ½	G Smith, Richard	1915
4	1774	Doyle, Jamie B	1 - 0	G O.Neill, Martin	1929
Total	7685		2 - 2		7869

Last update Martin J Simons Sat 26th Mar 2022 06:35. Reported by Martin J Simons Sat 26th Mar 2022 06:35. Verified By

An excellent evening of chess!

A well contested match with 2 early contrasting draws. There was an early quiet draw on board 1 which both players were happy with. Board 3 was wild and it seemed that Richard may have missed an opportunity to sac a bishop to open up Jon's position and win the game. Instead he allowed Jon to castle and the worst seemed to be over. A draw was soon agreed. Jamie continued his excellent form to win what seeemd to be a faultless attacking game. With the score at 2-1 to Southbourne, John had to dig in on board 2, firstly to fend off Len's attack, then to exploit a better R+N v R+B ending. After over 3 hours of play, despite some dogmatic resistence, John managed to win a couple of pawns and carefully move up the board to win the game. Thank you to Poole A for an excellent evening of chess and hope you had a safe onward journey to the 4NCL hotel straight after the game!

Martin J Simons