Jack Campbell Rosebowl - win against Edinburgh West

Gerry Brown

21 April 2025

We won 3-2 against Edinburgh West in the semi final of the Jack Campbell Rosebowl.

	Civil Service		Civil Service		Edinburgh West
1	Eric P Smith	1840	0 - 1	Martin E Robinson	1929
2	William L Lindved	1824	½ - ½	Callum Darling	1950
3	Charles Gunn-Russell	1770	½ - ½	Aadith Prabhu	1769
4	Tom Grey	1741	1 - 0	Haruo Uegaki	1675
5	Allan McDiarmid		1 - 0	Shriya Madhu
				3 - 2

Martin beat Eric very quickly in the Traxler Attack - Martin knew the theory; Eric didn’t.

Tom won - I didn’t see much of this game but I think he simply ground his opponent down

Allan won - he was two pawns up in a double rook and minor piece endgame and snuffed out his opponent’s counterplay..

Charles was a couple of pawns up but in a time scramble both sides queened pawns and black was able to continue checking and a draw was agreed.

William’s game looked even throughout with his opponent have perhaps a slight advantage. A R&P endgame ensued and William was able to hold the position for a draw.

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