South Hams Chess Club
South Hams Chess Club

Match Details

TCL Division 1: Teignmouth v South Hams 1 Mar 2016

Bd Teignmouth Col Grade ECF Result South Hams Col Grade ECF PGN
1 Wilson, Matthew B 159 128713J ½-½ Levy, Steve W 177 134450L View
2 Ingham, Bill W 158 173310C ½-½ Archer, David B 138 300734A View
3 Mills, Nathan B 154 272540L 1-0 Wilkinson, Ben W 124 162703L View
4 Hindom, Kevin W 155 233227K 1-0 McConnell, Phil B 115 285386D View
Overall Match6263-1554
 

Match Report

Author:  Phil McConnell

Date:  2 Mar 2016

(Submitted on behalf of Steve Levy)

Congratulations to Teignmouth, who achieved the double over South Hams in Division 1.

At the tea interval, there was plenty to play for on all four boards - which we thought was something of an achievement given that we were outgraded by 72 points - the "killer" difference being on boards 3 and 4.

On Board 4, Phil in his (lack of wisdom) decided to launch an all-out attack on his opponents king, which had Kevin worried for a few moves before he saw off the attack with a material advantage and more than enough counter-threats of his own.

On Board 3, there was a ridiculous amout of chess to be played after about 25 moves, with not much time left for either player. Both players managed to get to the 35 move checkpoint wthout blundering, and in the end it came down to both players having a king and 6 pawns, but Nathan's positional advantage secured the win.

On Board 2, a tense battle went to an end-game with David (having less than 20 seconds on his clock) with a bishop and a pawn against a bishop and three pawns. This doesn't sound great, but David cleverly positioned his king, bishop and g pawn against his opponent's king, bishop, doubled h pawns and f pawn to force a draw.

Board 1 was a close game with a tricky end game leading to another draw (Steve's knight and 2 pawns against Matthew's knight and 3 pawns).

Overall, a defeat, but cerainly no disgrace.