Great 4-1 win for the A team to keep their title hopes (and the B team’s third place aspirations!) alive.
Notes by Paul:-
- Ravi was first to win. Borrowdale gave up a pawn for active play which seemed only to expose his own K side.
- Bd 1 got into a major piece ending where Steve neutralised pressure on his f7 pawn and eventually drew when it came down to a rook and pawns each.
- I won a pawn on Bd 2 going into a rook and minor piece ending, but my bishop wasn’t working as well as his knight and a draw was agreed, fine for me as Ravi had already won and we were up on the bottom two boards.
- Nick somehow got to be an exchange up and hung on to it before returning it for a won knight ending. A frantic time scramble ended with Nick delivering mate with his flag already ‘down’ (do we say ‘showing’ for a digital clock?!). Possibly Adrian could have previously claimed a win on time as he still had a pawn on the board. see game
- I was down in the bar when Peter Gill came down to say there was a dispute on Bd 5, apparently involving inability to add two minutes to a clock. Luckily my technical expertise was not called on because Adrian Elwin, a qualified arbiter of course, had already sorted it all. The position by then was a trivial win for Michael and he had enough time. I remember seeing some tightwire tactics in the middlegame.
| Home Team: Milton Keynes A | Away Team: Bedford A | ||||||
| Board | Name | Grade | Score | Score | Name | Grade | |
| 1 | Graham Smith | 182 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Steven C Ledger | 188 | |
| 2 | Richard Freeman | 187 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Paul F Habershon | 191 | |
| 3 | Graham Borrowdale | 180 | 0 | 1 | Ravi Arulnandhy | 183 | |
| 4 | Adrian Elwin | 169 | 0 | 1 | Nick P Collacott See game | 167 | |
| 5 | David Martinez-Willena | 174 | 0 | 1 | Michael Botteley | 165 | |
| Date Played: 13/03/2014 | 1 | 4 | |||||