Bedford D 2-3 Leighton Buzzard B

Thursday 4th February 2016

Bedford D Leighton Buzzard B
1 154 Neil Hickman 0 1 Brian Valentine 162
2 143 John Harbour 1 0 Adrian Matthews 158
3 171 Ben Pike 0 1 Peter Taylor 153
4 e120 Jan Laming 0 1 Fred Dorn e125
5 e110 Blagan Jeremic 1 0 Tony Readman 122
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Blagan quickly built up a fierce attack and finished the game off in style.

The other games were on a slower burn. Neil’s French defense looked solid to my untrained eye; I maintained White’s God-given small edge in a Sicilian; Ben’s position began to look difficult; Jan built up a threatening attack.

Then it began to go wrong. Ben succumbed; All the pieces except the Qs came off in Neil’s game and he resigned a pawn down and about to lose more; Jan’s advanced pieces got in a tangle and he lost one of them. I found an unsound tactical idea which succeeded in converting a better position into a won ending.