Post by admin on Jan 26, 2014 11:11:52 GMT
Well, that was hard work, but a 100% record remains
Brighton & Hove E 2 Hastings & St Leonards D 3
(assumes Worthing v Brighton will be 2½-2½; in fact it's 2-2, Worthing claiming 3-2 and Brighton 2½-2½)
We have still to play: v Haywards Heath, v both Horsham teams. Our next match Weds 19 Feb, away to Haywards Heath.
NB the planned home friendly v Brighton on 8 Feb is in doubt as they are having difficulty raising a team of appropriate stength.
The match today will teach me how little I understood the other games!
Umberto came on a 70 mile round trip to finish inside half an hour with an 11 move win when the opponent simply failed to defend against a Kside mating attack. Then about two hours for the next result.
Jeremy finished next. Now I had him as losing in my head when he was P down and seemed discombobulated but he tells me he was never losing, only worried - and although short of time to finish it the opponent gifted him material with a simple blunder.
At this stage I was wondering whether to offer the draw, having a slight edge in the R & minor piece ending but with scope to mess up; but Con was struggling and Keith's game... well, I'm not certain what was happening there - there are some things the contemplation of which brings madness. Keith had seemed comforrtable, doubled Rs on the b file, but when I had next looked everything seemed to have gone haywire with Keith a P down and the enemy Q rampaging. When I next looked I couldn't interpret it at all - Keith's supported P on the seventh, but defending against mate in one, pins and counterpinshere and there, a veritable Pollock of a position. Cut a long story short, Keith somehow escaped and emerged with Q (his second) + Ps against B + N + more pawns; Keith simplified down to Q (his third) + one P versus N + 3 Ps, at which point I felt able to accept the draw offered a few minutes earlier by my opponent. Whereupon Keith offered the draw to make the match 100% ours, the thing to do for the team result. (And he'd almost just let his K & Q be forked, so prudent too!)
And Con was struggling on tenaciously in the background. I thought Con's pawn structure was ugly from the opening but I'm told it was all book. But Con had difficulty coping with his opponent's active pieces and was ground down to an ending of R+ N a pawn down and eventually succumbed, last game to finish.
Paul Buswell
Brighton & Hove E 2 Hastings & St Leonards D 3
| T Brown (123) | 0-1 | Jeremy Hudson (121) (w) |
| D Simpson (-) | ½-½ | Keith Hossack (122) |
| I George (110) | 1-0 | C Power (121) |
| A Caswill (105) | ½-½ | P Buswell (109) |
| R Berryman (-) | 0-1 | U Jozwiak (84) |
| team | P W D L Games Pts |
| HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS D | 5 5 0 0 18 5 |
| HORSHAM E | 4 4 0 0 13½ 4 |
| BRIGHTON & HOVE E | 6 3 1 2 19 3½ |
| WORTHING D | 5 1 2 2 11 2 |
| HORSHAM F | 5 1 1 3 10½ 1½ |
| CROWBOROUGH D | 3 1 1 1 7½ 1½ |
| WOODPUSHERS B | 4 1 1 2 7½ 1½ |
| EAST GRINSTEAD B | 4 1 0 3 6½ 1 |
| HAYWARDS HEATH C | 4 0 0 4 6½ 0 |
(assumes Worthing v Brighton will be 2½-2½; in fact it's 2-2, Worthing claiming 3-2 and Brighton 2½-2½)
We have still to play: v Haywards Heath, v both Horsham teams. Our next match Weds 19 Feb, away to Haywards Heath.
NB the planned home friendly v Brighton on 8 Feb is in doubt as they are having difficulty raising a team of appropriate stength.
The match today will teach me how little I understood the other games!
Umberto came on a 70 mile round trip to finish inside half an hour with an 11 move win when the opponent simply failed to defend against a Kside mating attack. Then about two hours for the next result.
Jeremy finished next. Now I had him as losing in my head when he was P down and seemed discombobulated but he tells me he was never losing, only worried - and although short of time to finish it the opponent gifted him material with a simple blunder.
At this stage I was wondering whether to offer the draw, having a slight edge in the R & minor piece ending but with scope to mess up; but Con was struggling and Keith's game... well, I'm not certain what was happening there - there are some things the contemplation of which brings madness. Keith had seemed comforrtable, doubled Rs on the b file, but when I had next looked everything seemed to have gone haywire with Keith a P down and the enemy Q rampaging. When I next looked I couldn't interpret it at all - Keith's supported P on the seventh, but defending against mate in one, pins and counterpinshere and there, a veritable Pollock of a position. Cut a long story short, Keith somehow escaped and emerged with Q (his second) + Ps against B + N + more pawns; Keith simplified down to Q (his third) + one P versus N + 3 Ps, at which point I felt able to accept the draw offered a few minutes earlier by my opponent. Whereupon Keith offered the draw to make the match 100% ours, the thing to do for the team result. (And he'd almost just let his K & Q be forked, so prudent too!)
And Con was struggling on tenaciously in the background. I thought Con's pawn structure was ugly from the opening but I'm told it was all book. But Con had difficulty coping with his opponent's active pieces and was ground down to an ending of R+ N a pawn down and eventually succumbed, last game to finish.
Paul Buswell