A Second Harrod Win

We all had the black pieces for the first game. In my game, on board 3, we swapped off queens early and i became tangled up in some pins - an early loss. Hacker Dave did rather better on board 4. Mike agreed a draw on board 1, and John lost on 2. At the half way stage, we were down 1.5 points to 2.5, but we would be playing with the white pieces in round 2.

After the break, Dave went a couple of pieces up, then dropped a queen, but still won. I went a piece up and commenced swapping bits off, picking up another piece towards the end. Mike looked to be in a lost position with king and bishop against king, bishop and two passed pawns on the f and h files. Miraculously, Mike was able to take one of the pawns with his king and pin the remaining pawn to his opponent's king leaving him with insufficient mating material  - half a point well saved.

With the scoreline being 4-3 in our favour, and both players being short on time (John with less time) Shaun offered a draw. John accepted and, in so doing, won us the match.

20 Jun	Melton Mowbray 1		W - B	B - W	Heathcote Arms 1
			3½ - 4½
1	147	Botteley, Gerald	½ - ½	½ - ½	Cowley, Michael	160
2	130	Cope, Shaun	1 - 0	½ - ½	Manger, John	130
3	126	Gist, Elizabeth	1 - 0	0 - 1	Ross, Colin	94
4	80	Walton, Alison	0 - 1	0 - 1	Hacker Dave	94

The table currently looks like this:

Pos	Team	Pl	W	D	L	GPD	Pts
1	Heathcote Arms 1	2	2	0	0	3	4
2	Wigston 1	2	1	1	0	7	3
3	Ashby 1	2	1	1	0	6	3
4	Melton Mowbray 1	2	1	0	1	4	2
5	Willowbrook 1	1	1	0	0	2	2
6	Latimer 1	1	1	0	0	1	2
7	Ashby 2	2	1	0	1	0	2
8	Latimer 2	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Kirby Muxloe 1	1	0	0	1	-2	0
10	Braunstone 2	2	0	0	2	-3	0
11	Braunstone 1	1	0	0	1	-6	0
12	Syston 1	1	0	0	1	-7	0

No more chess until tomorrow night.

Well done everyone.

Colin.