Preston 1 V Lytham 1

Division A Wed 3rd Apr 2019 00:00 Winner: Draw Verify

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Board	Rating	Preston 1	V	Lytham 1	Rating
1	207A	Lund, D Brett B	1 - 0	G Ellames, Roy	198A
2	184A	Peacock, Malcolm R G	1 - 0	G Hopkins, Kit W	179C
3	163A	Ashcroft, Graham J G	0 - 1	G Evans, Paul A	181B
4	159B	Tillotson, Carl A G	0 - 1	N Leah, Tom	171A
5	143C	Pennington, Geoffrey B	½ - ½	B Cooper, John G	165A
Total	856		2½ - 2½		894

Last update Graham Ashcroft Thu 4th Apr 2019 10:45. Reported by Graham Ashcroft . Verified By

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First to finish was my game. After a poor opening Paul skilfully exploited my lack of development and exposed king. Malcolm was able to win the exchange against Kit which enabled him to reach a won endgame. I believe game four was eventful. Carl lost a pawn and then a piece, but Tom blundered the piece back. However Tom eventually emerged with the exchange up and similar to game two was able to win the endgame. At this point the game appeared to be going Lytham's way. On board one things looked equal but Brett played the endgame well and was able to force home a passed pawn which decided the game. This left game 5 where John was attacking and Geoff was desperately defending. Geoff was able to find some good moves and kept his nerve, with only a minute left on either clock a draw was agreed as John couldn't find the winning blow. The league is therefore set up for tonight's denouement.

Graham Ashcroft