Thursday 11th February 2016
| Milton Keynes C | Bedford D | |||||
| 1 | 143 | Colin Solloway | 0 | 1 | Neil Hickman | 154 |
| 2 | 133 | Alan Heath | 1 | 0 | John Harbour | 143 |
| 3 | 125 | John McKeon | ½ | ½ | Peter Gill | 126 |
| 4 | 89 | David Phillips | 0 | 1 | Qais Karimi | 129 |
| 5 | e90 | Lau Gainpaulsingh | 0 | 1 | Blagan Jeremic | e110 |
| 1½ | 3½ |
For the second week running Blagan won quickly. I have no idea what happened!
Neil had the white side of a French defense this week. The position looked chaotic to me, but he seemed to have it under control and finished off with a nice rook & knight mate – see game.
Third to finish was Qais whose position looked more coordinated than Dave’s whenever I looked. I didn’t see the end.
That was because I was busy! After a dodgy opening which I don’t think will make the theory books, I won a pawn. Any thoughts I had that I was doing OK were shattered by Alan’s 19.f5!, after which I gave up my queen to avoid being immediately mated.
Peter, kindly making a guest appearance for the D-team due to the clash with the County Championship, built up a good-looking position and swapped off into a winning rook and pawn endgame. With less than two minutes on his clock he was unable to finish it off.
John