First team back to winning ways

Crawford Macnab

23 January 2023

Our first match in the 2nd half of the league season was a visit to Alva Street to play against Edinburgh 3.

Both teams were closely matched on grading with everything to play for.

Charles had a minature against Chris McIntee with his opponent resigning after just 13 moves. This looked a little premature though Black would have a winning material advantage with little compensation for white.

 

Allan had a solid draw in a caro-kann.

Matt had an interesting game against Lindsay McGregor on the black side of an accelerated dragon. Instead of taking back the white queen on b6, Matt chose to sacrifice with Rfc8 which led to him having two rooks and a bishop against the white queen. This proved more than enough to secure the win.

I had a bit of pressure / space in a Macrozy Bind position but allowed exchanges leading to an agreed draw.

Nathaniel had a nice position and looked to be converting this to a winning endgame. Time pressure did not help and in the end a drawn king and pawn ending was reached.

Richard was again last to finish and had developed a strong attacking position. Unfortunately he failed to find the killer move and with less than a minute on the clock a draw was agreed.

	Edinburgh 3		Edinburgh 3		Civil Service 1		Civil Service 1
1	David Archibald	1802	½ - ½	Crawford Macnab	1760
2	Lindsay McGregor	1763	0 - 1	Matt Rounds	1749
3	Robert Kane	1726	½ - ½	Allan McDiarmid	1718
4	Chris McIntee	1725	0 - 1	Charles Gunn-Russell	1718
5	Martin Brejter	1672	½ - ½	Richard Scott	1677
6	Tobias Forbes		½ - ½	Nathaniel Forbes Inskip
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