Round-Up of Week 2.

HA3 Vs Braunstone 6

I made a stupid move on move 5 and Pat Reid was too good to let me get away with it. Things got much worse as the game progressed. I cheekily offered a draw after move 38.



This was the score over the boards. Drew scored his first win and Gordon made it two wins in a row. Tonight Graham Hewitt returned to Leicestershire Chess after a break of a couple of years. He lost on time to the rapidly improving Conor Reid.

09 Oct		Heathcote Arms 3		v	Braunstone 6
				2 - 3
1	B	119	Ross, Colin	0 - 1	Reid, Patrick	102
2	W	110	Hewitt, Graham	0 - 1	Reid, Connor	85
3	B	60	Harbidge, Drew	1 - 0	Frataczak, Edtya	60
4	W	43	Milner, Gordon	1 - 0	Li, Mark	60
5	B	40	Sanders, Gary	0 - 1	Khawaja, Okash	100

There was a board order anomaly, however. This was completely unintentional and nobody noticed until play was under way. Okash should have played either board 1 or board 2 for Braunstone rather than board 5. The LMC has ruled that for the purposes of the match result, the board 5 result will be reversed i.e. the match result will read 3-2 in HA3's favour.


HA1 Vs Wigston 2

A draw at home for HA1

09 Oct		Heathcote Arms 1		v	Wigston 2
				2½ - 2½
1	B	196	Sharpe, Graham	½ - ½	Horspool, Philip	178
2	W	169	Bray, Dave	½ - ½	Morley, Andrew	173
3	B	147	Cowley, Michael	0 - 1	Ward, Alan	171
4	W	152	Booley, Graham	1 - 0	Wylie, Stephen	158
5	B	151	Harrison, Peter	½ - ½	Dodds, Iain	153

Next week, HA2 play at home on Tuesday against Syston 1.
HA3 play away on Thursday against Wigston 5.
HA1 do not have another League Match until 1st November.

Bizarrely, the first round of the League Cup matches has been arranged during the half term holiday.

Well done everyone.

If anyone would like to see their game put up on the site, please send me an e-mail detailing the moves.

Colin.