The C Team had an excellent win at Leighton Buzzard – notes by Chris.
- Nigel was playing in his first league match since his illness and showed he was back to form by beating Andre Eggenhoffner with a kingside attack.
- Mac outclassed his young opponent to score a comfortable win putting us two points up – could we score the third point for the win?
- This looked unlikely as Peter Housden was always struggling against Tony Readman and eventually lost.
- Peter Gill’s opponent sacrificed a piece in the opening (Cochrane Gambit) and built up a very strong position. In the end Peter gave a piece back to reach material equality and eventually achieved a draw.
So the result rested on my game with Brian Valentine, a regular contributer to this website!! I felt I had a slight edge in the opening but he came back into the game and I couldn’t find a way to improve the position of my major pieces. He rejected my draw offer at the time control and won a pawn so I just marched my king down the board (didn’t someone say that the king is an attacking piece?) and tried to mate him with rook, knight and king while he pushed his extra pawn. Unfortunately in time trouble I couldn’t find the mate (pointed out afterwards by Graham Borrowdale) but at least I had a perpetual check and secured the 3-2 victory.
This win piles the pressure on the D Team(!?) ahead of their crucial match against MKC at the club on Thursday. The C and D Team are locked together on 9 points with both having one match to play.
| Home Team: Leighton Buzzard B | Away Team: Bedford C | ||||||
| Board | Name | Grade | Score | Score | Name | Grade | |
| 1 | Brian J Valentine | 161 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Chris Hill see game | 134 | |
| 2 | Tom Rixon | 134 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Peter S Gill | 133 | |
| 3 | Andre Eggenhoffner | 125e | 0 | 1 | J Nigel Staddon | 126 | |
| 4 | Tony Readman | 125 | 1 | 0 | Peter T Housden | 102 | |
| 5 | Valentin Bunave | 100e | 0 | 1 | RW (Mac) MacKenzie | 72 | |
| Date Played: 01/04/2014 | 2 | 3 | |||||