Merry Christmas to all From ray beach

Ashby 5 (1-4) HA3

24 Nov		Ashby 5			v		Heathcote Arms 3
				1	–	4
1	B	94	Williams, Richard	0	–	1	Manger, John	144
2	W	80	Wood, Brian	0	–	1	Ross, Colin	96
3	B	76	Roberts, Neil	1	–	0	Beach, Ray	81
4	W	70	Hart, Jake	0	–	1	Harbidge, Drew	88
5	B	64	Nicholson, Brian	0	–	1	Roberts, Bill	76

I did not really get to see anyone else's games. My win against Brian Wood was a struggle.



Another good team result.

Well done everyone.

Colin

Oadby (1.5-2.5) HA3

17 Nov		Oadby			v		Heathcote Arms 3
				1½	–	2½
1	B	125	Pettitt, David	0	–	1	Manger, John	144
2	W	124	Candlin, Don	0	–	1	Ross, Colin	96
3	B	117	Thornton, Mike	½	–	½	Beach, Ray	81
4	W	50	Gutteridge, John	1	–	0	Milner, Gordon	38

This was a really good result for us:

Gordon finished early.

Ray was material up, but drew against Mike Thornton with this as the final position.




Don Candlin had me nailed to a cross, but let then me off.



John ground out a win.

 

Well done everyone.

Colin

Red Admiral (2-2) HA3

HA3 draw away at Red Admiral.

26 Oct		Red Admiral			v		Heathcote Arms 3
				2	–	2
1	B	101	Carter, Andy	1	–	0	Maconnachie, Richard	93
2	W	96	Slater, Mick	1	–	0	Harbidge, Drew	88
3	B	89	Matts, Stephen	0	–	1	Roberts, Bill	76
4	W	87	Parsons, Stan	0	–	1	Milner, Gordon	38

Here is Gordon's win against Stan the main man Parsons.



Well done everyone,

Colin.

University of Leicester 2 (2-2) HA2

We scraped a draw.

The caretakers at the University are very assertive.



Sorry Ray, I could not make out all of your moves. Here is the copy of your notes:

12 Oct		Leicester University 2			v		Heathcote Arms 2
				2	–	2
1	B	155	Albertelli, Christian	1	–	0	Cowley, Michael	153
2	W	133	Van Hoof, Alex	0	–	1	Manger, John	144
3	B	132	Lyon, Alexander	0	–	1	Ross, Colin	96
4	W	118	Wilson-Hebben, Eddie	1	–	0	Beach, Ray	81

Well done everyone.

Colin

HA3 (½ – 3½ ) Braunstone 5

We should post things on here more often.

HA3's first match of the new season. Ray was away. Gordon captained. We were in the Skittle Alley for the first time in ages and we had to have the fire on. We played with the new boards and pieces - very nice.

A time-troubled John Oliver let me off with a draw. Bill was last to finish. Not a great score for us, but our opponents had bigger guns. There are still another 15 matches this season for us to win.

If anyone would like one of their games posting let me have the moves and I will put it on here.

04 Oct		Heathcote Arms 3			v		Braunstone 5
				½	–	3½
1	B	96	Ross, Colin	½	–	½	Oliver, John	105
2	W	88	Harbidge, Drew	0	–	1	Read, Barry	101
3	B	76	Roberts, Bill	0	–	1	Hall, Nick	100
4	W	38	Milner, Gordon	0	–	1	Martin, Paul	87

Well done everyone.

Colin

Congratulations COLIN well played  hope your form keeps up for the new season 😀

Colin CCs (Minor) Games 2016 - Play Off

This was a 40 minute game with a 10 second per move increment from the start. This was way too much stress for the both of us. Thank you to Ben for recording the final moves.

Colin CCs (Minor) Games 2016 - Fifth Round

John McKiernan - already on 4 out of 4. Me with 3 out of 4. John has won this competition before.

Colin CCs (Minor) Games 2016 - Fourth Round

Colin's CC (Minor) Games 2016 - Third Round

Colin's CC (Minor) Games 2016 - Second Round

In round 2, it all went a bit wrong against Andy Carter. There were at least 61 moves, but my notation leads a bit to be desired and it stopped making sense at around 27 moves in. The writing looked to be on the wall by then, however.

Colin's CC (Minor) Games 2016 - First Round.

I seem to have hit a rare run of form over the summer. Here was my first round Minor game against Charles Eastlake. At 119, Charles looked to be the strongest in the competition. In our previous game, in March 2016, I had resigned after 18 moves.

End of the 2016 season

Heathcote 3 has had a good year thanks to our enthusiastic players and our team captain Ray. We have one game to play against Melton 4, the last game of the season for us. Our last game was against Kirby 4, we played 6 boards and managed to win 4 - 2.

A little bit of humour: We played a game against Syston on 8 March 2016, I was playing board 4 against Rob Mundy. We were tucked away in the corner of the dining room at the Heathcote Arms when suddenly water came pouring from the ceiling above fortunately it missed the board and the two of us. It brought all games to a halt with humorous remarks until we moved positions and play resumed as normal. Apparently Tuesday night is bath night.