Friendly Match - lost to Edinburgh University

Crawford Macnab

7 February 2022

We hosted the University of Edinburgh for a graded friendly match played over 10 boards.

Although the University were stronger on paper, all of the games were very hard fought and in the end we lost 3½ - 6½.

The University plan to invite us for a return match later in the season.

My opponent had prepared a line against me which I did not handle very well and lost a pawn out of the opening! Despite this the extra pawn was in fact doubled which gave really good drawing chances but I failed to play the knight ending accurately and lost.

Charles (white pieces) had an exciting win with his opponent dropping a bishop but having some attack down the g file. White had sufficient defensive resources and in the end it was the black king that became too exposed.

Matt had a good win with the white pieces having not played for a while.

Euan had a good solid draw on board six.

Richard and Sandy both did well to draw endgames that looked like they might be lost!

	Civil Service		Civil Service		Edinburgh University
1	Crawford T Macnab	1811	0 - 1	Andi Dicu	2130
2	Charles Gunn-Russell	1797	1 - 0	Naman Singh
3	Allan McDiarmid	1740	0 - 1	Eduard Pruja	1927
4	Matt Rounds	1736	1 - 0	Martin Kopernicky	1742
5	Eric P Smith	1621	0 - 1	Divyesh Selvaraj	1622
6	Euan McDiarmid		½ - ½	Darima Donitova	1666
7	Gerry Brown	1435	0 - 1	Nikitas Angeletos Chrysaitis	1608
8	Douglas Heatlie	1418	0 - 1	Andrew Bergquist
9	Richard Josey		½ - ½	Mateusz Olszamowski
10	Sandy Powell	1108	½ - ½	Jan Goede
				3½ - 6½