The B Team had a good 4-1 win at Northampton last night.
| Home Team: Open University | Away Team: Bedford D | ||||||
| Board | Name | Grade | Score | Score | Name | Grade | |
| 1 | Branko Pribanich | 152 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Chris Hill | 159 | |
| 2 | Eva Ressel | 131 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Alex Taylor | 160 | |
| 3 | Dion Lindsay | 130e | 0 | 1 | Richard Bodily | 164 | |
| 4 | David Curran | 100e | 0 | 1 | Neil Hickman | 150 | |
| 5 | G Wyatt | 90e | 0 | 1 | Joe Valerio | 155 | |
| Date Played: 04/02/2015 | 1 | 4 | |||||
In the absence of Chris Ross, I had a good game against Branko He played quickly and as usual I was soon too far behind on the clock but found a way of exchanging my bad bishop for his good one and he went into a bishop v knight ending which by moving very quickly I held without too many alarms – it may have even been better for me, but no time!
Alex and Eva had a fairly dull draw.
Richard took a gambit pawn in the opening and held onto it. A slow pawn advance led to the expected victory.
Neil calmly organised his defences against a sacrificial mating attack that came to nothing.
Joe’s opponent blundered a rook early on.
So we now have 5 points, certainly enough to keep us up now that the rules are “1 up, 1 down”. The next aim is to finish above Luton.
Chris Hill 5/2/2014