| Bedford D | Leighton Buzzard B | ||||||
| Board | Name | Grade | Score | Score | Name | Grade | |
| 1 | John Harbour | 143 | 0 | 1 | Kevin Williamson | 176 | |
| 2 | Qais Karimi | 126 | 0 | 1 | Brian Valentine | 162 | |
| 3 | Jan Laming | 120 | ½ | ½ | Peter Taylor | 153 | |
| 4 | Blagan Jeremic | e120 | 0 | 1 | Fred Dorn | e125 | |
| 5 | Mac MacKenzie | 82 | 0 | 1 | Ted Brown | e120 | |
| 24/03/2016 | ½ | 4½ | |||||
As is usual, Blagan was first to finish. He had the rook in a R+3P vs B+3P ending, then carelessly left his king and rook on the same diagonal, and no longer had the rook.
Qais had two knights against two bishops in a position where I thought the knights might be better: apparently they weren’t.
Mac played the Pirc and seemed fine in the middle-game. I didn’t see where it went wrong.
Jan played the French against Peter Taylor and never seemed in any trouble. Another fine result.
I came out of the opening clearly ahead, but failed to get anywhere with a queenside attack. Kevin outplayed me in the endgame.
In the end we were well beaten, but not without putting up a fight.
John 25/03/16
The details of my game against Blagan are quite misleading. He had 2R + 3P against my R, B and 5P.
When he took the pawn on g6, it was indirectly defended by the forced combination which brought his king onto the white square, namely …48 Rb3- b1+,49 Rd1 x b1.. a2xb1=Q+ 50 Kxb1 Be4+.
Thanks, Fred. I only got up to see the final position, and Blagan saying “I made a stupid move – sorry.” Seems his error was a bit more subtle than he was implying.
Cheers. John