| Thursday 16th October 2014 | ||||||
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BEDFORD A |
NORTHAMPTON |
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|
1 |
198 |
Steve Ledger |
½ |
½ |
Chris Ross |
200 |
|
2 |
182 |
Paul Habershon (see game) |
1 |
0 |
Branko Pribanich |
152 |
|
3 |
177 |
Ravi Arulnandhy |
1 |
0 |
Dave Curren |
130e |
|
4 |
168 |
Michael Botteley |
1 |
0 |
Tony Bayes |
81 |
|
5 |
150 |
Gerry Nolan |
1 |
0 |
Tom Maloney |
70 |
|
4½ |
½ |
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Bedford A opened their season with a comfortable win against a heavily outgraded Northampton. Gerry, substituting for Steve Pike, soon won material and was never troubled. Mike dominated his uncastled opponent throughout. Ravi’s opponent soon had an inferior position but kept finding resourceful defences. However, Ravi was always one step ahead and eventually simplified to a won king and pawn ending. On Board 2 (see game) Branko missed an equalising chance in the middlegame and was completely lost thereafter. Steve Ledger looked to be in serious trouble early on with an undeveloped kingside. However, he scrambled his way to an ending where his queen defied winning attempts by Chris Ross’s two rooks. Shorter of time in the rapidplay finish and having to move the blind player’s pieces as well as his own, Steve was relieved that Chris sportingly declined to ‘flag’ him.