| Home Team: Bedford D | Away Team: Milton Keynes C | ||||||
| Board | Name | Grade | Score | Score | Name | Grade | |
| 1 | Qais Karimi | 140 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Alan Heath | 152 | |
| 2 | John Harbour | 138 | 0 | 1 | Colin Solloway | 133 | |
| 3 | Ben Cox | 129 | 0 | 1 | Dave Wells | 133 | |
| 4 | Toby Cox | 112 | 0.5 | 0.5 | John McKeon | 121 | |
| 5 | Robin Pound | 91 | 0 | 1 | Geir Erik Nielsen | 116 | |
| 1 | 4 | ||||||
| Played: 18/01/2018 | |||||||
Qais looked under pressure a pawn down in the middle game, but comfortably held out for the draw.
I was in the process of winning a pawn when I played two moves in the wrong order and lost a piece instead.
Ben fought hard in a difficult position, with no reward.
Toby played well and probably should have won. A pawn up in a R+P endgame he had the worse rook so John was able to force a draw.
Robin was a pawn down with a restricted bishop, but with queens on the board he had chances. After the queens were swapped off he had none.
All in all, not the D team’s finest hour. Better luck next time!
John