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	Home Team: Bedford B				Away Team: Kents Luton
Board	Name	Grade	Score	Score	Name	Grade
1	Nick P Collacott	165	0	1	A Perkins	183
2	Alex Taylor	160	0.5	0.5	M Joseph	149
3	Richard T Bodily	164	0.5	0.5	P Montgomery	148
4	Chris Hill	159	1	0	S Vora	137
5	Giuseppe Valerio	155	0	1	M Gladysz	145
Date Played: 11/12/2014			2	3

Nick outmanoeuvred his opponent in the centre creating a number of weaknesses for him. Pushing for the win, Nick speculatively sacrificed a piece for a couple of pawns to open up the king. But his opponent had no problems snuffing out what attack there was, and that was that.

Alex built a good position and obtained a clear advantage.  However in complications close to the time control and slightly short of time, his brain froze and he accepted a draw offer.  Nick kindly pointed out a killer move winning a piece (Fritz sadly agrees too!)

Richard had an edge throughout, attacking the castled king.  Reaching a rook ending a pawn up, exchanged to king and pawns and then with a unique positioning of kings and pawns, couldn’t see a way through, so agreed a draw.  Looking at the game days later,  a win was there, annoying.  [See if you could have done better from the drawn position – Ed]

Chris’s opponent took advantage of King’s Indian inaccuracies to gain a small advantage but sacrificed a pawn to provoke what he saw as a winning combination – however it was an optical illusion and lost a piece. The rest of the game saw Chris in some time trouble trying to coax a pawn through to promotion. In the end, mate was achieved with 7 seconds remaining

After an early exchange of queens down the d file as in many of Joe’s games, a lot of manoeuvring took place. Joe’s was offered a draw but decided to press on and the game eventually entered a bishop and pawn ending with Joe’s pawns restricting the movement of his bishop and with his king in an inferior position. It was a difficult position to hold and Joe lost a pawn and the game.

 

All in all a frustrating result.