Leicester Chess Congress 2009

The H E Atkins Memorial Congress will be taking place from 2nd to 4th October at Regent College. Contact www.leicesterchess.co.uk for details. It looks as though our club will be well represented.

Colin

Harrod Cup 4th Round

Unfortunately, we were a player down on Wednesday when we played Red Admiral 2 in the Harrod Cup 4th round. We came close to drawing the match, however, and with a fourth player who knows what might have been?

board 1 Ross, Colin 93 1-0 1-0 104 Slater, Mick
board 2 Ricketts, Dave 95 Drawn 0-1 95 Winterton, George
board 3 Beach, Ray 75 1-0 0-1 80 Carter, Andy
board 4 **DEFAULT** 87 0-1 0-1 Parsons, Stan

Heathcote Arms 3.5 Vs Red Admiral (2) 4.5

Well done everyone.

Colin

Gradings

The new grades have been amended on the ECF website. They are now:

Graham Sharpe 192 (Rapid 169)
Dave Bray 168 (Rapid 162)
Graham Booley 157 (Rapid 133)
Mike Cowley 148 (Rapid 154)
Pete Harrison 141 (Rapid 147)
John Manger 134 (Rapid 139)
Colin Ross 112 (Rapid 90)
Dave Ricketts 104 (Rapid 90)
Ray Beach 90 (Rapid 74)
Herve Tribouilloy 62 (Rapid 37)

Colin

Club Night At The Heathcote

This Tuesday, 4th August, there were no matches - Just some casual games of chess and some beer. A most enjoyable evening.

Raymond Keene has sent me a copy of Chess For Tigers by Simon Webb for solving the Sunday Times Winning Move Thingy. A great prize except that i already own a copy. If anybody wants it let me know, otherwise we can use it as a prize for winning games (or, perhaps, the most stupid move) at a future club night.

Colin

Heathcote Arms Collapse in 3rd Round of the Harrod

On Wednesday we travelled to Loughborough. We were outgraded on every board - by 30 points in Dave's case. In the first round, Dick drew despite having looked better in a king and pawn endgame, i also drew in a deadlocked position, and Dave and Herve were both beaten.

The second round was disasterous with us all losing (and we couldn't even blame the Polish Lager). Herve's game was closer than in the first (Yuki Okuda clearly being stronger than his nominal 80 grading), Dick lost having missed a winning sacrifice on h7, Dave was outplayed and i lost on time despite being a bishop up.

The results were:

Loughborough Vs Heathcote Arms
Peter Hickman (139) 0.5/1 - 0.5/0 Dick Salter (129)
Barnabas Osigho (125) 1/1 - 0/0 Dave Ricketts (95)
Michael Fraser (100) 0.5/1 - 0.5/0 Colin Ross (93)
Yuki Okuda (80) 1/1 - 0/0 Herve Tribouilloy (60)

Score 7 -1

Commiserations everyone.

Colin

Victory Against Spinney Hill 2 in 2nd Round of Harrod Cup

A great result at home. We are now undefeated after two rounds. An exciting match with a few blunders here and there. We were winning by 2.5 to 1.5 at the half way stage, and we held on to finish the match at 4.5 to 3.5

The results were:

Pete Harrison 0/0.5 - 1/0.5 Karl Potter
Dave Ricketts 1/1-0/0 Stevan Preocanin
Colin Ross 1/1-0/0 Rich Davis
Ray Beach 0/0-1/1 Alan Butler

Well done everyone.

Colin

HEATHCOTE ARMS 2 CRASH OUT OF CHAPMAN CUP

Despite Graham Booley getting creditable half against Jim Miller, the rest of the side couldn't pull off an upset against higher ranked opposition, so despite the 2.5 points start (due to a grading difference of 151), the side lost 3.5-2.5. On the other three boards, Dave and Ray both lost inside thirty moves, whilst Colin lost to a sucker punch having gone material up.

Jim Miller - Graham Booley 0.5-0.5
John Glover - Dave Ricketts 1-0
John Dawkins - Ray Beach 1-0
Greg Adcock - Colin Ross 1-0

So we will have to win the Birstall Cup instead.