Club Night - 9th May 2022
Crawford Macnab
9 May 2022
Two graded games played on Monday 9th May 2022.
Wins for Charles and Eric with the white pieces against Stuart and Simeon.
Crawford, Gerry and Andrew played a series of more casual 10 minute games.
9th May 2022
| White | Black | ||||
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| 1 | Charles Gunn-Russell | 1797 | 1 - 0 | Stuart McKinney | 1455 |
| 2 | Eric P Smith | 1621 | 1 - 0 | Simeon Tsvetkov |
With the wild windy, showery weather I was surprised to see the bowlers out in force.
Clearly takes really bad weather to put them off!
Nothing stops the bowlers
Stuart ventured his Benoni Defence against Charles who looks to be quite comfortable meeting this opening.
Charles v Stuart
Did not see how Eric and Simeon game concluded but looked quite close after the opening.
Eric v Simeon
Gunn-Russell, Charles
McKinney, Stuart
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1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. cb5 a6 5. ba6 Ba6 6. Nc3 d6 7. e4 Bf1 8. Kf1 g6 9. Nf3 Nbd7 10. h3 Bg7 11. g3 O-O 12. Kg2 Ne8 13. Qc2 f5 Strikes out
but may not be the best / safest! The white squares and e6 look to be exposed 14. Re1 fe4 15. Qe4 Ne5 16. Ne5 [16. Ng5 e6 square looks attractive 16... Nc7 17. f4 Nf7 18. Ne6 Ne6 19. de6 Nh6 20. g4] 16... de5 17. Be3 Nd6 18. Qg4 c4 19. Ne4 [19. a4 Ra5 20. Rab1] 19... Nf5 20. Nc3 Ne3 [20... Nd4 21. Qe4 Qb6 22. Rab1] 21. Re3 Rc8 22. Rd1 Kh8 23. Ne4 Qb6 24. Re2 Qa5 25. Ng5 Bf6 26. Nf7 Rook on f8 is defending rook on c8 26... Kg7 27. Ne5 Qa2 [27... Rc7 Looks a better try 28. d6 ed6 29. Nd7 h5 30. Qe6] 28. Nd7 Rfe8 Big advantage now
for white [28... h5 29. Qe6 Qb3] 29. Nf6 ef6 30. Qd7 Mating attack! 30... Kh6 31. Re8 Re8 32. Qe8 Qb2 33. Qe3 Kg7 34. d6 c3 35. d7 c2 36. Qe7 Kh6 37. Qf8 Kg5 38. Rd5 f5 39. f4 Kh5 40. g4 Kh4 41. Qh6#