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 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