Post by admin on Feb 20, 2014 11:19:06 GMT
Tonight's result flattered us. We had a 100% record, they had a 0% record - but at times I'd've been happy to share the points tonight.
HAYWARDS HEATH C 1 HASTINGS & ST LEONARDS D 4
19 February 3014
0-1 Fitzgerald 120 v Mason Woodhams 138
½-½ Rayment 110 v Paul Buswell 122
0-1 Everitt 96 v Gary Willson 113
0-1 Baldry 89 v George Jelliss 94
½-½ Mercer 86 v Gregory Chandler 83
I finished first after about 75 minutes. I really must find a new defence to e4, not d6. I felt uncomfortable and constrained, my opponent was playing confidently, I was already well behind on the clock, and simply felt outplayed. So when he offered the draw in the early stage of QRP ending I took it with relief.
Gregory finished very soon after that. His opponent threatened mate which Gregory warded off and the opponent was happy to repeat moves although having an initiative.
Then an hour or so of tension as the others battled. I couldn't read boards 1 & 3 and 4 was a seesaw
But then Mason broke through. He says he always had the game well in hand from the opening, built up pressure, hammered home - a weight off a captain's mind.
And a minute later George finished... he had won a piece for a pawn, dropped it to an N fork, missed winning another piece later on but got his pieces round the back with crude threats.... it looked won for George, but not quite, but the opponent didn't find the only defence and in his perplexity ran out of time with 10 moves still to make.
Gary kept going for a while longer. A packed and complex board had two massive enemy advanced passed pawns and looked ugly but the opponent messed up an exchange sequence and the pawns fell for nothing,
P W D L Games Pts
HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS D 6 6 0 0 22 6
HORSHAM E 4 4 0 0 13½ 4
BRIGHTON & HOVE E 6 3 1 2 19 3½
WOODPUSHERS B 5 2 1 2 12 2½
CROWBOROUGH D 4 2 1 1 10½ 2½
WORTHING D 6 1 2 3 13 2
HORSHAM F 6 1 2 3 13 2
EAST GRINSTEAD B 5 1 1 3 9 1½
HAYWARDS HEATH C 6 0 0 6 8 0
(assumes Crowborough v Worthing will be 3-2: is actually 2½-1½ + 1 unfinished)
Paul Buswell
HAYWARDS HEATH C 1 HASTINGS & ST LEONARDS D 4
19 February 3014
0-1 Fitzgerald 120 v Mason Woodhams 138
½-½ Rayment 110 v Paul Buswell 122
0-1 Everitt 96 v Gary Willson 113
0-1 Baldry 89 v George Jelliss 94
½-½ Mercer 86 v Gregory Chandler 83
I finished first after about 75 minutes. I really must find a new defence to e4, not d6. I felt uncomfortable and constrained, my opponent was playing confidently, I was already well behind on the clock, and simply felt outplayed. So when he offered the draw in the early stage of QRP ending I took it with relief.
Gregory finished very soon after that. His opponent threatened mate which Gregory warded off and the opponent was happy to repeat moves although having an initiative.
Then an hour or so of tension as the others battled. I couldn't read boards 1 & 3 and 4 was a seesaw
But then Mason broke through. He says he always had the game well in hand from the opening, built up pressure, hammered home - a weight off a captain's mind.
And a minute later George finished... he had won a piece for a pawn, dropped it to an N fork, missed winning another piece later on but got his pieces round the back with crude threats.... it looked won for George, but not quite, but the opponent didn't find the only defence and in his perplexity ran out of time with 10 moves still to make.
Gary kept going for a while longer. A packed and complex board had two massive enemy advanced passed pawns and looked ugly but the opponent messed up an exchange sequence and the pawns fell for nothing,
P W D L Games Pts
HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS D 6 6 0 0 22 6
HORSHAM E 4 4 0 0 13½ 4
BRIGHTON & HOVE E 6 3 1 2 19 3½
WOODPUSHERS B 5 2 1 2 12 2½
CROWBOROUGH D 4 2 1 1 10½ 2½
WORTHING D 6 1 2 3 13 2
HORSHAM F 6 1 2 3 13 2
EAST GRINSTEAD B 5 1 1 3 9 1½
HAYWARDS HEATH C 6 0 0 6 8 0
(assumes Crowborough v Worthing will be 3-2: is actually 2½-1½ + 1 unfinished)
Paul Buswell