Board | Home | Preston 3 | Lytham 2 | Away | |
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1 (B) | 1870 (1837) | B Quinn, Kenny | 1 - 0 | S Aspinall, David E | 1773 (1637) |
2 (W) | 0000 (1377) | B Thornley, Andrew | 0 - 1 | S Pickering, Darren | 1548 (1599) |
3 (B) | 0000 (1676) | G Szydlowski, Sebastien | 1 - 0 | B Wilks, Colin | 1503 (1496) |
4 (W) | 0000 (1600) | N Aspden, Danny | 1 - 0 | S Morgan-Short, Andrei | 0120 (1704) |
Total | 1870 | 3 - 1 | Total | 4944 |
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At last. After all the months of lockdown OTB league chess returns to Preston Chess Club. A good match against Lytham 2 with both teams fielding some new and fairly new names.
On Board 1 though it was two old campaigners. No surprise that Dave employed a gambit (Morra) but fearless Kenny took the pawn and then got the better of the opening, saddling white with double isolated e pawns, one of which black won. Despite white`s efforts to generate some attacking play, it was never enough and the extra pawn told in the endgame.
On Board 2 there was a level interesting opening but the game was effectively over when white lost a rook and although Andrew valiantly fought on, Darren never let it slip.
On Board 3 Colin survived a dubious opening line (Danish Gambit?) and eventually a materially equal pawn endgame ensued. Possibly with best play it should have been drawn but Seb made better active use of his king and secured the win.
Board 4 was in my opinion the best game of the match, bottom board but good quality chess. Danny`s queen went on an early excursion to grab a pawn but the time this took allowed Andrei to build pressure particularly against white`s d3 pawn. White defended the position coolly for several critical moves and then freed his position with d4 push. A queen endgame came about and white`s extra pawn and active queen proved decisive, although did black miss a chance of perpetual check ?