Thursday 31 March 2011

Almost at the end of the season now - Tuesday 29th March 2011.

Drew fell quite early to a Q x h7 mate. Ray had been a piece up, but ended up drawing. Michael scored a triumphant win when he exchanged a bishop for queen early on and carried the pressure through until the end. My pawn structure had been awful from early on, but we entered a prolonged endgame and i had a bishop whilst my opponent had a knight. Things looked sticky for a while, but my opponent eventually blundered by putting his knight and king on the same diagonal. Cue bishop. A 2.5 to 1.5 win against Kirby lifted us from the bottom rank of division 5. Fantastic!


29 MarHeathcote Arms 3vKirby Muxloe 2
2½ - 1½
1B102Ross, Colin1 - 0Walker, John115
2W90Beach, Ray½ - ½Kellock, Jim80
3B80Bubb, Andrew0 - 1Turner, Scott80
4W60Bubb, Michael1 - 0Gonzaga, Edda60


There was more serious stuff going on in our Division 1 match. Dave, Mike, and Graham had all drawn, leaving things up to Pete and Rajan. Both were under pressure and when Pete conceded defeat, Rajan's opponent offered him a draw. HA1 must now beat Wigston 1 to avoid relegation.


29 MarHeathcote Arms 1vShepshed 1
2 - 3
1B167Ganger, Rajan½ - ½Toothill, Andrew170
2W168Bray, Dave½ - ½Bowley, Rupert167
3B156Cowley, Michael½ - ½Henfrey, Robert171
4W153Booley, Graham½ - ½McDermott, Patrick164
5B138Harrison, Peter0 - 1Farrall, David165

There will be a club night on Tuesday next week - shame on you if you do not come down.
On the week after, there will be: HA1 facing Wigston 1 at home on Tuesday 12th - and apparently there will be a curry afterwards; On Wednesday 13th, HA3 face Oadby away, and HA2 face Kirby Muxloe 1 away on Thursday 14th.

This should just about wrap things up for the League season.

Sean has already sent some information out about the County Champs.

There should also be some information out soon about the Summer Cups.

Well done everyone,


Colin.

Saturday 26 March 2011

Change to Result of 4th Rnd Minor League Cup Match

Don't worry. HA2/3 has still won the Minor League Cup. There has, however, been an amendment to the result of the fourth round match against Melton. On the night, the two Captains worked out grade differences and concluded that there was no handicap. It later emerged, however, that there should have been a half point head start in favour of Melton. This means that the match changes from being a draw to a loss for us.
We have accepted this. The change means that HA2/3 scored 8 points out of a possible 10 rather than 9 points out of a posible 10. This still leaves us ahead of all our rivals - so no real harm done.

Colin.

Thursday 24 March 2011

Last Round of the League Cups

Major League Cup

HA1 were still in with a shout on Tuesday. Alas, it was not to be.


22 MarHeathcote Arms 1vLoughborough 1GD
1½ - 2½-24
Handicap0 - ½
1½ - 3
1B192Sharpe, Graham½ - ½Sheahan, Sean172-20
2W168Bray, Dave½ - ½Eagleton, Greg161-7
3B156Cowley, Michael½ - ½Miller, James1582
4W153Booley, Graham0 - 1Jimenez, Alfonso1541


HA1 still have a match in hand, but can no longer catch Loughborough 1. Loughborough took the Cup through this win.

 Minor League Cup

On Wednesday, HA2/3 went to Loughborough to play their second team. We outgraded them to the point where Loughborough started with a 3 point head start, but this turned out to be a strategy that worked out. The two youngsters on boards 3 and 4 are good, improving rapidly, and they absolutely refuse to give up (my game lasted 76 moves and my opponent was playing with a lone king against some heavy material - consequently i did not get to see much of anyone else's games). I do know that Rob opened with e4 (!?), and, in a Sicilian, quickly gained his opponent's queen via a discovered check.


23 MarLoughborough 2vHeathcote Arms 2GD
0 - 4142
Handicap3 - 0
3 - 4
1W118Uski, Ville0 - 1Harrison, Peter13820
2B60Gordon, Stewart0 - 1Ensor, Rob13950
3W60Trusz, Ashish0 - 1Ross, Colin10242
4B60Kohli, Sameer0 - 1Beach, Ray9030


The (almost) final table looks like this:


PosTeamPlWDLGPDPts
1Heathcote Arms 2541059
2Spinney Hill 2531157
3Braunstone 2521245
4Loughborough 2521235
5Melton Mowbray 25212-25
6Wigston 15203-44
7Hinckley 14022-42
8Market Harborough 14013-71


We have won the Minor League Cup.

Well done to everyone, especially Pete Harrison who won all of his five games.

Anyway, back in the league:

  • HA2 have a couple of weeks off.
  • HA1 play at home against Shepshed and, to avoid relegation from the first Division, they really need a win.
  • HA3 play at home against Kirby Castlers 2.
Well done everyone.

Colin

Wednesday 23 March 2011

The Master Game

Amazingly, after having seemingly been lost for years, 12 episodes of the Master Game have appeared on You Tube. Follow the link.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Sirb0b1

You may have to open it in a new window.

Colin

Thursday 17 March 2011

Melton Vs HA1 on 16.03.11

16 MarMelton Mowbray 1vHeathcote Arms 1
3 - 2
1B203Lee, Graham½ - ½Bray, Dave168
2W165Billingham, John1 - 0Cowley, Michael156
3B164Reynolds, Tom1 - 0Booley, Graham153
4W153Jex, Alan0 - 1Harrison, Peter138
5B147Wallace, Robert½ - ½Denton, Bruce135

Wednesday 16 March 2011

HA2 and HA3 both at home 15.03.11

HA2 managed a draw. Mike C had a good win. Bruce Denton has returned to chess after a long break and managed a respectable draw against Stuart Hollingworth. Welcome Bruce. Haka Dave made it two games in  a row with no losses. Rob hung on 'til the bitter end in a rook and pawn endgame two pawns down.


15 MarSyston 2vHeathcote Arms 2
2 - 2
1B119Leonard, John0 - 1Cowley, Michael156
2W116Stone, Robert1 - 0Ensor, Rob139
3B107Hollingworth, Stuart½ - ½Denton, Bruce135
4W97King, Ron½ - ½Ricketts, Dave99


A very strong Spinney Hill team were always going to inflict some damage against us. Our openings all looked fine. Ray and i both missed wins.

15 MarHeathcote Arms 3vSpinney Hill 2
½ - 4½
1B102Ross, Colin½ - ½Slater, Brian L133
2W90Beach, Ray0 - 1Garland, Michael (snr)126
3B80Bubb, Andrew0 - 1Pyke, David120
4W80Sanders, Gary0 - 1Davis, Richard T101
5B60Bubb, Michael0 - 1Hill, Granville95

Well done everyone.

Next week it is League Cup matches:

HA1 play at home on Tuesday 22nd against Loughborough 1. Supporters welcome.

HA2/3 play away on Wednesday 23rd Loughborough 2.

Cheers,

Colin

Monday 14 March 2011

County Match

Graham B Reports:
Club players Rajan, Graham Sharpe and Sean helped the county to a 10-6 win against Derbyshire on Saturday to secure our final spot in the national stages.


Section:  MINOR

Home Team: LEICESTERSHIRE
Away Team: DERBYSHIRE
Venue: CROFT
Date: 12th March 2011
Team having white on odd boards:
Result reported by:
Board
ECF Code
Grade
Home team players’ names
Score
Score
Away Team players’ names
Grade
ECF Code
1
118781J
192
Graham Sharpe
0.5
0.5
R Evans
192
110349A
2
115787F
178
Andrew Morley
0
1
D Latham
191
210988J
3
118836
172
Sean Sheahan
0.5
0.5
S Gilmore
183
111264J
4
107674H
173
Ray Burgess
0
1
T Bould
172
107033C
5
163691B
165
Richard Vann
0.5
0.5
A Downham
159
127966L
6
118421A
167
Mike Salisbury
1
0
D Jarvis
163
173444B
7
118096E
170
John Robinson
0.5
0.5
J Hoddy
166
112778A
8
108577D
167
Paul Colburn
0
1
P Moore
153
115733E
9
115247G
164
Patrick Mcdermott
0
1
R Hedges
152
256196H
10
161682B
167
Rajan Ganger
1
0
P Kelman
143
165437J
11
115634C
162
John Mitchell
1
0
L Allread
153
166478F
12
213110K
165
David Farrall
1
0
K Dalley
140E

13
259469K
161
Greg Eagleton
1
0
M Hill
148
1126699
14
115535A
158
Jim Miller
1
0
D Pickering
139
117100J
15
112575J
157
Sean Hewitt
1
0
D Hoddy
140
210955E
16
106748F
157
Jim Bingham
1
0
N Atkins
137
265846L




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Graham B