Second Team Lost to Corstorphine 2

Gerry Brown

26 February 2024

We were outgraded on every board.

Unfortunately we had to default board 4 when Patrick couldn’t make it.

Lewis ultimately couldn’t defend a K side attack by a very strong junior.

I was under some pressure and had to exchange pieces to equalise. The game ended with N+5 P against N+5 P and neither side could make progress.

João was the exchange and a pawn to the good but overpressed and his opponent managed to counterattack and force mate.

Eric was always under pressure against a very strong opponent and although he had an attack wasn’t able to counter the infiltration of his opponent’s Q.

Douglas won a P and the game entered an endgame with Q, R and 5P against Q, R and 4P. Although Douglas had the better position his K was exposed and his opponent was able to force perpetual check.

	Corstorphine 2		Corstorphine 2		Civil Service 2
1	Graham Dempsey	1795	1 - 0	Eric Smith	1601
2	Graham Wilson	1543	½ - ½	Douglas Heatlie	1499
3	Brian Gourlay	1534	1 - 0	João Reis	1410
4	David Burns	1472	1d - 0	Patrick Miller	1413
5	Ricky Dowling	1468	½ - ½	Gerry Brown	1342
6	Rath Srinivas	1193	1 - 0	Lewis Pantony
				5 - 1