The B Team had a good 4-1 win at Northampton last night.
| Home Team: Open University | Away Team: Bedford D | ||||||
| Board | Name | Grade | Score | Score | Name | Grade | |
| 1 | Branko Pribanich | 152 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Chris Hill | 159 | |
| 2 | Eva Ressel | 131 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Alex Taylor | 160 | |
| 3 | Dion Lindsay | 130e | 0 | 1 | Richard Bodily | 164 | |
| 4 | David Curran | 100e | 0 | 1 | Neil Hickman | 150 | |
| 5 | G Wyatt | 90e | 0 | 1 | Joe Valerio | 155 | |
| Date Played: 04/02/2015 | 1 | 4 | |||||
In the absence of Chris Ross, I had a good game against Branko He played quickly and as usual I was soon too far behind on the clock but found a way of exchanging my bad bishop for his good one and he went into a bishop v knight ending which by moving very quickly I held without too many alarms – it may have even been better for me, but no time!
Alex and Eva had a fairly dull draw.
Richard took a gambit pawn in the opening and held onto it. A slow pawn advance led to the expected victory.
Neil calmly organised his defences against a sacrificial mating attack that came to nothing.
Joe’s opponent blundered a rook early on.
So we now have 5 points, certainly enough to keep us up now that the rules are “1 up, 1 down”. The next aim is to finish above Luton.
Chris Hill 5/2/2014
Feel free to discuss this with the Bedford B management committee Neil!
The quoted grades are out of date.
The January grades are:
Pribanich 151
Hill 157
Ressel 137
Taylor is still 160 (but then, as an accountant he is allowed to be predictable)
Bodily 169
Lindsay 108 (sorry, Richard)
Hickman 151
Curran 111
Valerio 153.