Club Night - 24th Jan 2022

Crawford Macnab

25 January 2022

Three ladder games, two friendlies and a club championship game were played on 24th Jan 2022.

Club Championship Section A

Catching up on club championship game from last year, Crawford and Nick played another line of the Scandinavian Defence ending in a draw when pieces were exchanged down to a level position where neither side could risk pushing for a win.
This result means that Douglas has won section A and qualifies for the championship play off decider against Gerry.

Round 7

24th Jan 2022

Ladder Games

24th Jan 2022

See Club Ladder for full results.

Paul’s draw with Euan moves him up to positon 5 in the ladder.
Philip eventually won against Sandy.
Observing Stuart and Nathaniel’s game a few times I could see it was getting quite interesting and later I was surprised to see it reached the position shown below!? Both players kindly shared the game score and on review Stuart missed a few chances to castle kingside which would have kept things about level. Instead a blunder led to the position collapsing and the king having to go for a wander.

Stuart, McKinney

Forbes Inskip, Nathaniel

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. Ne5 Qf6 4. Nc4 fe4 5. Nc3 Qg6 6. Nd5 Na6 7. Nde3 d6 8. d4 Nf6 9. Be2 Be7 10. c3 O-O 11. Qb3 Kh8 12. Qd1 Be6 13. Na3 Nd5 14. Nac2 Nf4 15. Bg4?? Nd3 16. Kd2 Rf2 17. Be2 Bg4 18. Rf1 Rg2 19. c4 Bg5 20. Kc3 Be2 21. Ng2 Bd1 22. Rd1 Bc1 23. Rac1 Nc1 24. Nge3 Ne2 25. Kb3 b5 26. d5 Rf8 27. Rd2 Nc1 28. Ka3 Qe8 29. Rd1 Nd3

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Friendlies

Two graded friendlies were played with Charles and Allan winning with the black pieces.

24th Jan 2022