SOUTH BIRMINGHAM CHESS
CLUB Old News
Seasons 2016/17/18/19
16th
April 19
And finally the round up
In Div 1 SB Alpha Ones
last Match was away against Walsall Kipping, a loss would give Kipping the BDCL
Championship Title, a Win would give Solihull the Title, Professional to the
end we won unfortunately for WsK playing the
last game against the team that has finished in one of the top two places
fourteen of the last eighteen seasons is not ideal; they turned down a chance
for revenge in the Runners up Play off Match, Solihull was happy.
In Div 2 Lichfield
only Drew their Last Match and finished as runners up 2A Talent Squad won to
Win the Div 2 Title and Transform back in to the Seaside, at the other end,
Sutton 2 who won a board dispute against Mutual 2, overtook our 2B who got
relegated for the second season in a row.
In Div 3 Team Monty’s
Survival needed Sutton 3 to lose their last match, and by some quirk of fate
they did 3½ - 2½ due to them defaulting a board. Well done that man.
In Div 4 the team
performed above expectations and finished fifth, Captain Brush and Invincible
held the team together only losing 3 games out of 20 between them.
In Div 5 the team
finished joint fourth and new members proved the club is in safe hands with
good results from players with little over the board experience
So this seasons collection is
Open Section Runners
up
560 Section Runners up
480 Section CHAMPIONS
400 Section CHAMPIONS
Terrill Trophy Winners
Div 1 Runners up
Div 2 CHAMPIONS
Indy 140 Max Champions Tricky
Indy 140 Max Runners up Killa
Indy 100 Max Champions Brush
Indy 80 Max Runners up Persian Mat
Dudley 2 145 Max Runners up
Dudley 3 115 Max
Runners up
Lightning Section B winners
Lightning Section C winners
10th
Apr 19
Terrill Final
First things first.....A BIG WELL DONE TO OUR TEAM and the PEOPLE THAT
CAME TO WATCH AND SUPPORT US at Olton Chess Club last night.
This was a monumental win as we had to beat Westminster 3
in the Final of the Terrill Trophy and score at least 5 out of the 6 games.
The night didn't start well as a few of us (including me)
thought the start was 7.30pm but I was at the club early anyway at about 6.45pm
but a few of our players were still to arrive at the start of the match. I won
the dice by throwing a 5 against a 4 and had a difficult decision in deciding
whether to have white on odds or evens. The dice was 7.10pm and I thought I had
until 7.30pm but was then told by Singerman it starts
at 7.15pm.
I was close to giving us black on odds to give Rob the best
chance of winning as his was the smallest grading difference and he'd had a difficult
season but I eventually went with conventionality and chose the white pieces on
odds.
As it happened, During the match,
I had mixed feelings about my decision because Jon arrived at 7.37pm and was
about 20 minutes down at the start so Jon having white must have helped
time-wise, on the other hand, Rob with the black pieces seemed to be worse for
most of the game in a Nimzo-Indian against Phil Maddocks 130.
Adam and James also started a bit later but at least they
weren't playing a 190 player....Westminster showed their credentials and
although worse in a few games, they proved difficult opponents.
Marcus was playing Chowdhury
Junior 116E but obviously much better than that...Marcus had a Ruy Lopez and advanced his g+h
pawns and seemed to be improving his position. He had a good Knight on f5 and
his Rooks on the h-file and I'd chalked it up as the first win on the board.
They then shook hands and was surprised to hear the game was a draw. So,
Westminster had 1/2 a point and on board 6, they were getting at least another
1/2 as they'd reached an endgame with a drawn Knight and Pawns against Rob's
Bishop and Pawns. This type of ending depends on the pawn structure amongst
other factors as to who's better. Rob had the long range advantage but the
Knight can use light and dark squares which the Bishop obviously can't
do. The match suddenly turned on its head, surely a critical moment, Phil Maddock blundered and suddenly Rob won a pawn race to Queen
and pulled a rabbit out of the hat.
James on 2 against Lee Collier 142,
surprised his opponent by pushing his h-pawn all the way to h3 and it remained
a thorn in Lee's side. I didn't see much more but James converted later.
Adam won in a Kings Indian Defense
I think, against G. Maciel 137. Jon's game was a
Sicilian in which Jon played Bc4...He seemed to be better and had a better
dark-squared Bishop...Later he had a good Knight vs M. Chowdhury's Dark
Bishop.
My opponent P. Lawrence 131 played cautiously and solidly
in a Pirc Defense. One of
my aims was to avoid exchanges unless it was better for me and gradually
manoeuvre and improve my position. I had a plus for most the game and he lost
on time in a position that was better for me but difficult to play just using
increments.
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3rd
Apr 19
All,
Individual Finals
The
finals of three of the BDCL Individual events took place at Olton last night, with
two of our members involved.
In
the max-80 section, Matt Smith had White against Tom Vanes of Coleshill. An English Opening was met with ...e5 and
...f5 and an even-ish position ensued. Black
exchanged his black-square bishop for a knight, and Matt had long-term
aspirations of pressure on the a1-h8 diagonal, while Tom was trying to move all
his major pieces to the K-side. Matt had to weaken his position with h4,
but the pawn was poorly defended because the g3 pawn was pinned against the
king by a rook on g6, and eventually the pawn fell. This left Matt with a
lot of K-side weaknesses, which Black exploited efficiently to win the game.
In
the max-100 section, Joe Kadar had White against John Lewis of WQ. Joe
opened with d4 and Bf4, Black fianchettoed
his KB, Joe marched his h-pawn up the board, Black castled Q-side, and Joe
marched his a-pawn and b-pawn up the board too. Black had chances to play
...e5, which might have left Joe's king feeling short of a home, but chose
instead to keep the position closed. Eventually Joe also got castled on
the Q-side, then started improving the position of his
pieces before opening up the game in the centre of the board. Ironically
it was Black's king that eventually turned out to be the more insecure of the
two, and Joe grabbed a couple of important diagonals to threaten a mate which
couldn't be avoided without massive loss of material, so Black resigned.
Well done Joe – another trophy in the South Birmingham cabinet!
The
third game was the max-120 final where Kevin Spillane of Boldmere
defended a QGD against Paul Barrett of Coleshill.
Black's position was compact but remained weakness-free, and eventually he won
a piece via a cheapo, though he was developing a good edge by then anyway.
Tonight
it's Tricky vs Killer at
SBCC in the final of the max-140 event, while the already-promoted 2A side
travels to Solihull, where a point or better will give us the Division 2
title. Faraz, Tom-Tom, John, me, Martin and
Darren are leading the charge. Sean is unwell and has had to sit this one
out – best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Cheers,
Tal.
24th Mar 19
Crunch Time
This week could
determine the fate of three of our teams
On Monday The Tiger Bees are at home to Boldmere for
their last Match of the Season
Both Teams are on 8 Points and sit above SC on 4 and relegated WQ at the Bottom
if a draw Happens its Possible both could be caught and overtaken if SC win
their last three Matches which are against WQ Hal & MC
or a Three way play off if they win 2 and draw 1
❷ |
P |
W |
D |
L |
Pts |
||||
Lichfield |
10 |
8 |
0 |
2 |
16 |
||||
South Birmingham-A |
10 |
6 |
4 |
0 |
16 |
||||
West Bromwich |
|
11 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
13 |
|||
Solihull |
9 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
12 |
||||
Shirley & Wythall |
10 |
4 |
4 |
2 |
12 |
||||
Mutual Circle |
10 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
11 |
||||
Stourbridge |
10 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
9 |
||||
Halesowen |
9 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
8 |
||||
Boldmere |
10 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
||||
South Birmingham-B |
10 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
||||
Sutton Coldfield |
8 |
1 |
2 |
5 |
4 |
||||
Warley Quinborne |
|
10 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
1 |
On Tuesday Team Monty on 7 Points will be away to Olton A and are in the same place as the
Tigers
if SC on 3 pts win two of their last three Matches which are against Bdm Rsh & Mer
Monty could be caught or worse
Wish us Luck against a very tough Olton A Probably featuring Both Reynolds
brothers
❸ |
P |
W |
D |
L |
Pts |
||||
University Birmingham |
11 |
10 |
0 |
1 |
20 |
||||
Olton-A |
|
|
|
10 |
6 |
1 |
3 |
13 |
|
Lichfield |
|
|
|
11 |
6 |
0 |
5 |
12 |
|
Mercia |
8 |
5 |
1 |
2 |
11 |
||||
Westminster |
9 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
10 |
||||
Solihull |
10 |
5 |
0 |
5 |
10 |
||||
Mutual Circle |
9 |
4 |
1 |
4 |
9 |
||||
Rushall |
10 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
9 |
||||
Olton-B |
10 |
3 |
2 |
5 |
8 |
||||
South Birmingham |
|
10 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
7 |
|||
Boldmere |
|
|
10 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
4 |
||
Sutton Coldfield |
8 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
3 |
On Wednesday in Div 2 Stourbridge Entertain Lichfield .... Joint table toppers with the Talent
Squad
a single Point Guarantees Lichfield Promotion and sets the bench mark for the
Talent Squad to Match or Beat for the Title
On Thursday in Div 2 Shirley Wythall Entertain
Solihull, IF Solihull do not win The Talent Squad will become The
Seaside........ Yay
5th Mar 19
Div 3 The wrong Bees
Most will know either by being there or the lack of
bragging that Monday was not quite what Monty hoped for
for the 6th Time this season Team Monty lost by the 3½ to 2½
margin. On the one hand not bad for one of the lowest graded teams
On the other not that pleasurable when it goes on week after week, I relegated
myself to Board 4 this week after a 5 game losing sequence in Div 3
As Black Spent parts of Sunday memorising the Budapest opening to play
against d4, My opponent opens with e4, ...............Usually I can dig in
with this but come on
......what Idiot plays Bd6 on move 3 Blocking in the Queen and Bishop. The
complete mess that followed was always going to happen when playing such
rubbish,
However................. it was good to see the return
of the Zombie and get a draw, I should of won in the end
IF I had moved Qg3 on move 25 threatening his rook and then
getting to f3 or d1 it may of all been over two moves later.
https://chessmicrobase.com/g/rlkrlnqq
Invincible done what was asked on Bd 2 and Tricky got
what you know you will get from Rob a Draw
Monty have One Match left and Olton A will be tough especially... with
Rob this time on a lower Bd
From below you will see as Predicted in the Uni email
Solihull and Olton B have gone above us
so it’s a
case can Boldmere or Sutton catch us with their games
in hand for a Relegation play off
We shall see
❸ |
P |
W |
D |
L |
Pts |
UoB |
Mer |
OltA |
Lch |
Wes |
Rsh |
MC |
Sol |
OltB |
SB |
Bdm |
SC |
max |
||||
University Birmingham |
8 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
14 |
14 |
3½ |
4½ |
|
4 |
|
1 |
|
3½ |
3½ |
5 |
4 |
20 |
||||
Mercia |
|
|
|
7 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
11 |
2½ |
11 |
4½ |
4½ |
3½ |
3 |
|
|
|
3½ |
3½ |
|
19 |
|
Olton-A |
9 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
11 |
1½ |
1½ |
11 |
3½ |
3½ |
3 |
5 |
4 |
4½ |
|
|
1½ |
15 |
||||
Lichfield |
9 |
5 |
0 |
4 |
10 |
|
1½ |
2½ |
10 |
2 |
4 |
4½ |
4 |
|
2 |
4 |
4 |
14 |
||||
Westminster |
8 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
9 |
2 |
2½ |
2½ |
4 |
9 |
4½ |
|
|
3 |
4½ |
|
₩ |
15 |
||||
Rushall |
9 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
|
3 |
3 |
2 |
1½ |
9 |
4½ |
2½ |
4½ |
3 |
4½ |
|
13 |
||||
Mutual Circle |
8 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
8 |
5 |
|
1 |
1½ |
|
1½ |
8 |
2 |
5 |
3½ |
3½ |
|
14 |
||||
Solihull |
8 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
8 |
|
|
2 |
2 |
|
3½ |
4 |
8 |
2½ |
4 |
2½ |
3½ |
14 |
||||
Olton-B |
9 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
8 |
2½ |
|
1½ |
|
3 |
1½ |
1 |
3½ |
8 |
3½ |
3 |
4 |
12 |
||||
Monty |
|
10 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
7 |
2½ |
2½ |
|
4 |
1½ |
3 |
2½ |
2 |
2½ |
7 |
3½ |
3½ |
9 |
|||
Boldmere |
8 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
3 |
1 |
2½ |
|
2 |
|
1½ |
2½ |
3½ |
3 |
2½ |
3 |
|
9 |
||||
Sutton Coldfield |
7 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
|
4½ |
2 |
Ø |
|
|
2½ |
2 |
2½ |
|
2 |
10 |
28th
Feb 19
Terrill Semi
Hi All,
Last night saw a very competitive semi-final between our 1st team and
our strong 3rd team which is top of Division 2 if they manage to win their game
in hand. I put the 2A side as favourites to win this tie as the 1st team were
without their top 2 boards and 2A only needed 2 points to win the match on
handicap.
It was a strange start to the match as I left my phone at
home and then there was a bus missing and whenst (new
word) I was on the bus, the traffic was horrendous in places. I arrived about
7.50 and there were still 2 players to arrive. In walked Sean, after priming up
for his board 1 clash no doubt. About 7.55, Pavel
entered the Auditorium to have a Gladiatorial battle with TAL.
The match started and some of the games appeared to develop
very quickly ....I'm thinking of Adam Szelc v Martin
Smyth on board 4 in A Modern type of position where Adam had play on the
queen-side and Martin had not castled. Adam got his Queen to a8 and his Knight
was also causing Martin difficulties to the point that Martin missed something
in his calculations and resigned.
Marcus Walsh v Leonardo Matoi on
6 was a Morra Gambit in which Marcus's pieces were
active and his Rook controlled the c-file and his Bishop on b3 had a nice
diagonal. Leonardo later in the game was a piece down and resigned.
Richard Mycroft v Darren Whitmore on board 3 was
interesting as Richard hadn't played much recently due to the birth of his
child and Darren had recently returned from a 8 year
lay-off. Darren played very well in a Kings Indian position with white playing
Bg2. Darren looked better with with more attacking
chances and I didn't see how it finished but a good win for Darren.
2-1 to the Good Guys (sorry about the bias) 2
- 3.5 on the handicap
Pavel Besedin v Tim Lane was a French which Tim knows very well and it went with both
players attacking different sides as Tim castled Queen-side. Pavel probed with a4 and I think Tim might have played h6
and g5. Once again, I didn't see the end but Tim resigned.
Board 1 was James Hanley v Sean Ralph and it looked like it
was going well for Sean against the strong James who will surely reach 200.
Sean never looked worse when I looked and may have been better. They both
agreed a draw which meant another 1/2 a point from the last game would see 2A
go through.
Board 5 saw Myself v Rob Glass and
it was a Classical Pirc. Rob could have played a
couple of moves which would have given him a good edge in the opening but in
general, I was usually well placed especially in the middle-game. Towards the
end when we were getting short of time, there was a few mistakes and Rob had a
chance to draw which would have seen the 2A team throught
to the final but it was a good game and and both
teams would have been worthy contenders in the final.
https://chessmicrobase.com/g/a2cq59bi
Hitman
20th
Feb 19
Talent Squad
Promotion hopefuls 2A visited Sutton on Monday, with both
sides at full strength (July grades):
1 Soszynski, Marek J 156 vs Malik, Faraz 164
2 Lawrence, Roy A 148 vs Thomson,
David 163
3 Gardiner, David 150 vs Ralph,
Sean 162
4 Czopek, Wojciech u/g
vs Emanuel, John L u/g
5 Mildenhall, John 153 vs
Lane, Tim A 161
6 Dhesi, Iqbal
S 145 vs Williams, Simon A 152
The evening started unexpectedly smoothly, as we
eased into a three-nil lead. Sean has already posted his smooth
positional win against David Gardiner. Simon played a similar game
against Iqbal Dhesi,
maintaining the initiative all evening and eventually picking up a couple of
pawns, and then the exchange, before resolving into an easily-won K+P
endgame. I was slightly worse all evening against John Mildenhall but, trying to play quickly to keep me under
time pressure, he stumbled into a nice mate by
Q+N. I'll post this later.
Elsewhere, Tom-Tom's game looked, as usual, murky,
tactical and complex, though I gather from later comments that he was worse all
evening. Anyway, he eventually succumbed to a rare defeat.
At this point the evening started getting
stressful. Faraz, playing Black against Marek Soszynski, had grabbed a
hot pawn on b2 and soon found his Q incarcerated on a1. I thought he was
a goner but, a long time later (after my own game had finished), I found to my
delight that Faraz was still with the living and,
indeed, was a couple of pawns ahead. As time trouble loomed (all moves in
90 minutes) he won more material and soon had R+R+B vs
R. Marek was bashing out the moves as quickly
as possible, but Faraz was still keeping score.
Rules update: you don't need to keep score in a quickplay
finish when you have fewer than five minutes remaining! The position
would have been a straightforward win with a few more minutes left, but the
task of delivering mate and/or getting rid of all of Marek's
material (to ensure a draw) proved too much, and eventually (having abandoned
the scoresheet) Faraz lost
on time. After the game it was generally agreed that Marek
had made an illegal move along the way (a diagonal capture of a pawn with
a rook!) but, in the absence of the score, it was impossibly to verify this.
So that left John. By the time Faraz's game had finished, John's had also reached a
crisis. His opponent had made an illegal move and the clocks had been
stopped, in order to find somebody who knew how to add two minutes to John's
clock. John, incidentally, had 45 seconds left at this point. In
the confusion I thought John's opponent had offered him a
draw. "Take the draw!" I screamed (inwardly). "We're
3-2 up and you've got 45 second left on your clock!! Take the draw!!!"
In fact I had got the wrong end of the stick and it turned that it was John
that had offered the draw, just prior to his opponent
playing the illegal move – the opponent was now trying to accept!
Eventually calm was restored, the draw agreed, and we ended up winning 3½-2½.
We're second in the table (or top, using my
preferred point-dropped calculation) with three matches to go.
Here's my game, with some very light notes.
https://chessmicrobase.com/g/wvfjnbqn
Cheers,
Tal.
14th
Feb 19
Talent Squad
Chess players,
Last night’s Division 2
fixture between Boldmere St. Michael’s and South
Birmingham “A” was one of the most one-sided matches I’ve played in.
We were at full strength while,
in an early-evening boost to our hopes, we found that BSM were missing their
regular Board 1, Tony Hickey.
The sides lined up as follows
(July grades)
1 Thomas, Keith (150) vs Malik, Faraz
(164)
2 Lake, Andrew N (145) vs Thomson, David (163)
3 Farley, Richard (145) vs Ralph, Sean (162)
4 Loach, Peter L (135) vs Emanuel, John L (u/g)
5 Harrington, Michael J (135) vs Lane, Tim A (161)
6 Fryer, Stephen M (121) vs Whitmore, Darren H (u/g)
I try to fill these accounts
with (genuine or manufactured) suspense, but in this case it’s just impossible
– we were 5–0 up by 9.25pm. Darren won in about an hour, depriving his
opponent of the right to castle and then picking up a piece on the c-file with
a small combination. John was next, meeting a Leningrad Dutch with an
h-file attack (h5, Nxh5; Rxh5, gxh5; Qxh5+) and soon delivering mate, though
Black missed a defence which would have kept him in the game. By this
time Faraz was a couple of pawns up against Keith
Thomas, Tom-Tom’s opponent had saddled himself with doubled and isolated
e-pawns, and I had a highly mobile position against Micky
Harrington. I think Faraz finished next, though
I didn’t see the end of the game. My opponent’s position fell apart in
dramatic fashion on the black squares, which was odd because he had a
black-square bishop and I didn’t. This was at about 9:15pm, and I was
still exchanging pleasantries with my opponent ten minutes later when Tom-Tom
won too. 5–0 to South Birmingham!
That just left Sean to play
for the clean sweep, but his position was very draw-ish.
I had to get Darren back to Sparkhill, so I delegated
the remaining administrative duties to Tom-Tom, who was taking advantage of the
venue being only 0.7 miles from his home to enjoy a beer at the bar, and made
my escape. Eventually a text came through at about 10:55pm (glad I didn’t
stay!) to say that Sean had indeed drawn, giving us victory by 5½–½.
Division 2 table in “points
dropped” order:
Team |
Play |
Won |
Draw |
Lost |
Points |
Dropped |
SB A |
7 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
11 |
3 |
Lichfield |
9 |
7 |
0 |
2 |
14 |
4 |
S & W |
8 |
4 |
3 |
1 |
11 |
5 |
Solihull |
8 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
10 |
6 |
MC |
9 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
11 |
7 |
Halesowen |
7 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
7 |
WB |
9 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
9 |
9 |
Stourbridge |
9 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
8 |
10 |
SC |
7 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
10 |
BSM |
8 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
11 |
SB B |
10 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
12 |
WQ |
7 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
14 |
On Monday we’re away at Sutton
Coldfield. Remaining fixtures after that are S&W, Halesowen and
Solihull.
Tal
12th
Feb 19
The Life of a Captain
Friday I was a player short for Bd 6 in the
Relegation crunch Match with Sutton in Div three
Mr. Brush was Nominated
Saturday the call went out to Team Monty
Hi Team
Monday is a very important Match......
if we are to avoid Relegation we need something from this Match so no Pressure
just don't lose.....lol
Because this Match is very Important we have saved our best until
now...........so
Joe the Brush Kadar has been selected to be our Super Sub on Bd 6
as a bonus Joe will be presented with the bottom half of his trophy and
rewarded with a Pint.
Okay Joe...........
Team line up will be in January Grade Order
See you
Monday
Sunday Lunch time I switched on the Pc and it started...
10.26am I had had an email from Joe Brush
saying did I get his email ??????????? I had not
12.00 noon I replied no only this one what did it say?
13.00PM No reply so I gave up and rang him.. he said he cannot Play Monday...Okay I said do you have Paul
The Nurse Mobile.... Yes he said I will email you it?! Cannot see
it while I'm on the phone
13.43PM email with Unreadable attachment..... I guess you need Joe's Phone to
read the format
14.10PM I replied .. Joe just type the XXXX Number
14.28PM I get it and Phone the Nurse. Mobile..... goes
to Network Answer Message.. leaves Message
15.00PM he calls back sounding Shit, Sorry I have what you had at the Rapid
Play (Man Flu) do not think I will make Tomorrow
15.12PM Email to Underlay can you play................ thought I better give it
a bit for reply went out for a bit
20.30 PM still heard nothing
20.45PM calls Tricky for some Numbers
21.00PM calls Underlay’s Mom's Mobile.....goes to Network Answer Message..
Leaves Message
21.30PM Calls Roys Home Number........Not recognised ???
21.31PM Calls Roy mobile Number.....goes to Network Answer Message.. Leaves Message
21.50PM getting a bit desperate thought on the off chance I would try
Rails........goes to Network Answer Message.. Leaves
Message
Waiting for replys has now
left it late to ring anyone else. Unless your called windows
May have a window of opportunity after 17.30PM When I get home tomorrow (Vish) was next on the list
Kitty and Invincible have already played their quota so cannot really use
them ......
22.30 Phoned Windows ...........says he will Play if he has to try Persian Mat
he is playing better...
22.40 Phoned Persian Matt ...Guess........Correct.....goes to Network Answer
Message.. Leaves Message
1500PM Monday from work I spoke with Team Co Partner by Email he says Roy will Play..........Hallelujah we have six Players
So at 7.30 the following team Lined up
Guess
What
SC3 Defaulted the Bottom Board
In a Nut shell the match was at 2½ each with just Our Board 1 Playing against
Rob Marks
Tricky eked out a pawn advantage looking the better and Won on Time WOW
Although we are not Safe yet its looking a little better
❸ |
P |
W |
D |
L |
Pts |
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University Birmingham |
7 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
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Mercia |
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7 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
11 |
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Olton-A |
9 |
5 |
1 |
3 |
11 |
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Rushall |
7 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
9 |
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Mutual Circle |
7 |
4 |
0 |
3 |
8 |
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Lichfield |
8 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
8 |
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Westminster |
7 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
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South Birmingham |
8 |
3 |
1 |
4 |
7 |
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Olton-B |
7 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
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Solihull |
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6 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
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Sutton Coldfield |
6 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
2 |
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Boldmere |
7 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
2 |
Well played guys especially Roy for turning up and getting the point.....
Thanks to Windows for being there and setting the Boards up... oh that reminds
me
Shortly after I said make sure your Phones are off and Start whites Clock
.........
we all made a move and Tricky said "Can I start again" Not sure
who is getting the Googlies Trophy
for setting up Board 1 the wrong way round.
5th
Feb 19
Cup Draw R4
Having
two of the four teams left in the Terrill it was always going to be a tall
order for them to Avoid each Other,,,, The didn't they came out as follows
Westminster 3 Vs Sutton Coldfield 1
South Birmingham 2 Vs South Birmingham 1
Div 5
Monday Night Five
Played their Socks off against a very experienced
Sutton Coldfield 5
with Double Indy 5 winner Chris East and ex Tamworth Div 1 Peter Oliver
Watched some great Games and a lot of cool heads for us The Future is Good...
Wins for
Vish
B1
Persian Mat
B2
Chandaras
B3
Daniel
B4
and New Guy Chris Moore B5
The Clock beat Windows... B6 it was all over by then
Chan was swapping off and a couple of pawns down........never bothered him just
kept looking for the Silver Cloud and found it
Mat Smith decided he had to many Knights and gave one away... this Must of
focused the mind when I got back from the bar he had the other guys Big
Girl.....
Daniel Brooks Played a very solid reserved Game ,He
made sure he Promoted Pawn with Check and then Mated while his opponents pawn
was waiting on the seventh
Chris Moore also played quite solid and went home Happy after his first ever
across the Board Competitive match.
Well done guys.......
30th Jan 19
Dudley 1
SKY SPOrts decided against
Liverpool v Leicester tonight and moved their cameras to a cramped room in
Moseley and sports fans nationwide were not to be disappointed!
In the prestigious U176 div one Dudley league, Sutton came
to visit the reigning super champs, South Bham.
(I was very confused as they weren't Olton who I've played
3 times in 3 weeks...)
Marcus v Marek, me v a Polish
chap we didn't know, Thommo v roy 'lazza' lawrence, ans Sean 'g5 0-1' ralph v Robert (richard?) Marx, (who was right here waiting for him?).
I played a line that I think surprised my opponent as it
seemed to give up a piece on move 4. it didn't
and i got a nice position.
Sean - having proved to the chess world that an early g5
with black generally wins, decided to to give his
opponent and even bigger surprise, taking his early flank attack to the limit
with 1....h5. this is not a typo...
Marek decided to play the 'ultra-hippo' v Professor with pawns
on a6, b6, c6, d6,e6 and g6. Marcus slowly built
up a space advantage...
Thommo seemed to play an open sicilian
type game v Lazza and seemed to have an opening edge.
All was set for the drama to unfold.
First excitement was with my opponents
confusion in my opening, he forgot when castled q-side and a q on d2 to get the
king to b1... cue my dark squared bishop to skewer everything. queen up to the good guys. he
played on a while but 1-0.
It was about 9 hours until the next game finished I think.
Sean, after h5 failed an outright win, shoved a rook on h5
and a pawn on g5 (-/+?). he had a fractured position
but his rooks were more active and he took the initiative into an endgame.
Marcus meanwhile, showing his smarties
in the M v M match (boom boom..) took a pawn and got a
dark square behind. Things were looking good at this stage....
Thommo got to an endgame with r+n each
and two pawns each on opposite sides...
Sean tried to win and got to r+p
v r, but king in wrong position. Sean confused his opponent further by
offering his hand at this point without offering a draw, but it seemed to work
1.5 - 0.5.
Marcus meanwhile had got an exchange but seemed to be
blocking the position a bit for his rooks...
Thommo was pushing pawns and getting complex with r and h pawn v
rook and b pawn both flying down the board.
MArcus meanwhile was going astray, his king pinned to a backward
c pawn allowed a knight fork to the rooks. Marek's
king was in a much better spot though... 1.5 - 1.5.
Down to Thommo....
It looked like it would be r v h pawn and maybe drawn, but
somehow it was r v q.
Thommo showed great technique to force black into a corner.
Lazza tried to fend off mate with an attempted
stalemate. however his rook left a sqaure for the king!!! all Thommo had to do was take it and the match was ours... but
he didn't....
about another 20 moves and a similar position arose. this time the stalemate worked!!! 2-2!!!!!!!!
The crowd went wild!
Sky sports will be showing highlights for years to come....
Diamond Geezer
22nd
Jan 19
Dudley 2
Monday Dudley 2
Played Halesowen in the Dudley Div 2 Fixture tonight
As with recent previous Mondays the MASC club was holding another one of their
Actions in the hall, to be fair I never heard anything this week, so either I
have gone Deaf or they behaved them selves,
Our opponents have not lost or won any of their three previous Matches so I was
hoping we could overcome them but we would need to be full metal jacket....
Tricky went with the White bits and gave me a break from Bd
1 so he found himself up against Halesowen own Cream, Andy Ambrose, I played
Bd2 Vs Don Curry who I beat in the same match last year,
Invincible Mat played Bd3 against sharp tactics Paul Evans and Killa was Bd4 against up and coming Junior Silas Bowcott Terry ..
In finishing Order Invincible as white had castled King side and some how lost
the G & H Pawns which allowed His opponent to force repetition in a
very quick affair...... ½ - ½
the next was Tricky who having looked round the boards accepted a Draw offer
.... 1 - 1 not long after I heard Killa refute
the draw offer from his young opponent, and again and again, and.....Won Yay.... 2-1
Now all eyes on the main attraction......
https://chessmicrobase.com/g/7vrs2ihg
15th Jan 19
Townshend R3
After a Bye in the
second round, yesterday Team Monty Travelled to Deepest Minworth
to take on the Arch enemy.... Again………
Having been beaten in the first round by the League Champions SC1 we hoped for
a better fist of it this time against SC2
Obviously my opponent last time Henrik Stepanyan must of told them what a great threat $ingerman 135 was so taking no chances they lined me up Neil
Owen 170.
As the Div 3 Board 1 this season I knew it was going to be a tough ask by my
standards but I'm sure somebody as turned the wick up,
To date I have played Mr Mycroft 187, Henrik 210,
Andrew McCumiskey 184, Neil Owen 170 and next week I
take on Westminster's Mohammed Chowdhury 171. Then some 200 Uni guy.
So far I haven't got anything...... But for all that I love it. SC2 needed to
score 4 to overcome the Handicap, the games did not finish in board order but
that's how I'm telling it
Bd1. I managed 50 Black moves against Mr Owen
and he did say I played well, and offered me a ………drink, What a nice
guy..... 1 - 0 to them....
Tricky 131 opted for white so Played Bd 2 against the
guy I thought I might get Marek Soszyinski
156, as the home team Sutton do not play Increments and Tricky lost on time.
Derek the Domino 136 on Bd 3 did what he does best
and ground out a draw against the very experienced John Mildenhall
153 .... 2½ - ½......
This weeks Guest was Invincible Mat yet to have number but it is likely to
be a decent one when he does, an excellent draw against David
Gardiner 150 3 - 1
Killa 126 on Bd 5 played
Roy Lawrence 148 the game looked very even with threats from both sides,
as the home team Sutton do not play Increments and Killa
lost on time. 4 - 1
2 cars Mat 126 on Bd 6 ground out a draw against the
very experienced Iqbal
Dhesi 145 4½ - 3 with the Handicap.......
In Summary 922 SC2 was too much for 790 SB3 and the control time was also
a factor rather than just the Grade difference........
Keep your chins up lads we go again next week
4th
Jan 19
Bees
the mighty title challenging 1B
team, the top SB team in div 1 still!, faced a tricky trip to warley Q last night.
I was being ultra smart,
having just played them before xmas
at their new, much nicer venue in a pub upstairs room. So i drove there, walked in and found myself in the middle of
a slimming world meeting for the 'fuller figured' ladies of Halesowen...
a chess venue this was not...a quick text to captain Cory found WQ at their old
venue and i was there in 5 ready for KO...
nothing was going to get any more exciting than that, or was it???
Rob 'put me down for
a half' Glass was first to finish with his 213th draw on the trot. Cory
had written this in before the match started though.
Dave 'Destroyer'
Dunn had a good active position from the opening and got a pawn up, but his
opponent got a central king in the end game and secured a draw.
Andy Southall tried
to wipe Cory 'draw with an IM' Hazlehurst off the board, saccing
an exchange with 10 mins on his clock used. looked tricky, but Cory gave back the material and a simple
looking draw followed - 1.5 - 1.5
the next three games all finished
in a minute of each other at the ungodly time of 10:30. I had offered a
draw abiut half an hour before v agnew in a stodgy game, but he had to play on due to
match situation.
he got some activity as the
position opened but missed my wild shot pushing a pawn. he had two pawns for a piece.
Meanwhile AMJ was
winning a tactical position v Steve Smith - my opponent seeing his chances to
win gone and down to a minute offered me a draw. I looked up at Captain
Cory for match advice, but he was already grabbing my hand and giving it my
opponent to shake - a draw was enough then with AMJ converting.3-2 with prof to go.
Now Prof had revenge
on his mind - having had a rare reverse in a grand prix sicilian
v WQ in dudley league at their old slimming world
venue pre xmas, he had a similar opening again -
looked a see-saw type game with pieces everywhere. I am told he was a bit
better when Mickey Singh lost on time - revenge for the Prof!!
4-2. relegation
is not a word we utter now in the 1B camp!
Diamond
20th
Dec 18
Div 1
Hi
All,
I'm sure most of you will know the result of this match now, another agonising
2.5 - 3.5 defeat between 2 very strong sides. Our average grade was 201 against
197 for Sutton. I have always advocated that we win as a team and lose as a
team but I have to say that I really felt a huge responsibility for this defeat
in losing a game where he blundered in the opening to the extent that he lost
his queen for minor pieces. My erratic play and results since the summer may
have been contributed to by some serious health problems in the summer but it
was very disappointing to lose in such a fashion.
Boards
4 and 5 were our boards of strength and we only scored 1/2 a point.
I
arrived early at the venue with Marcus, who was a late replacement for Richard,
and my thoughts were on whether IM Ghasi 255 would
play after the previous day, he had been in London completing a 9 round
tournament where he was unbeaten with 7/9. About 20 past 7, in walked IM Ameet Ghasi and I knew it would
be a tough task. I had a feeling that our own board 1 WGM Kata
Toma 224 would relish the challenge though.
Sutton
decided on a Quickplay finish with all moves in 90
minutes and 1 or 2 games were affected dramatically by this time-limit.
On
board 5, it looked like a KIng's Indian Samisch with Pavel 191 looking to
have a decent position with his knight on c5 and pawns on b6 and d6 ...I don't
think Keith Escott 172 started a king-side pawn storm
early and the result later was a draw.
My
game on board 4 was a Ruy Lopez Schliemann Defence
and Neil Owen 170 blundered on move 6 after the following 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bb5 f5 4.d3 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.0-0 d6? 7.Nd5+- Nxd5?? 8.exd5 a6 9.Bg5 (9.dxc6 is even better) 9...axb5 10.Bxd8
Nxd8 and so a Queen for 2 pieces. How did I lose?
I blundered on move 26 but it was still levelish
after the blunder but I blundered again on move 28 and it was losing.
Jon
Swindells 211 played T. Sygnowski
206 and it looked like a Kings Gambit where both players hadn't castled some
time in to the game. There didn't seem to be much in the game late on though
Jon had less time and it was getting serious on the clock with no increments
and about 1 min 40 secs left to 4 mins
of his opponent.A draw might have been possible with
more time but it was a long way off and no way his opponent would have offered
or agreed to one.
On
board 1, WGM Kata Toma 224
was black and played a Pirc against IM Ameet Ghasi's 255 Fianchettoed king-side Bishop and Kata
attacked the centre with ...c5. She had a couple of doubled pawns but was not
short of play herself. Towards the end of the game, they had opposite coloured
Bishops and a Rook and a few pawns. I didn't see the end of the game but Kata lost but it was great to have her playing and to see
her again.
John
Pitcher 214 played a Bishop's Opening and I didn't see a lot of his game
against H, Stepanyan 210 who, we were told, hadn't
lost in the Birmingham League for 4 years. A good game ensued in which both had
a rook attacking each other's pawns and apparently the dreaded time-limit also
affected this game....good win for John though....
Marcus
Walsh 172 had a Sicilian played by G. Ali 169 and Marcus eventually created a
passed pawn on the king-side though Golam as usual
made Marcus work hard and time was getting short again I believe but Marcus kept
things under control to win....
Hitman
29th Nov 18
Dudley
Div 2
Tonight Dud le Monte Travelled to Tal,s Backyard for our 5th Fixture
out of eight in this Dudley league against Boldmere
the teams lined up as follows
Mike Biddle 132 Vs Singerman 135
Arthur Kent 124 Vs Tricky 131
Kevin Spillane 119 Vs 2 Cars 126
Dave Guinness 111 Vs Killa 126
Killa got the Ball rolling with a quick win, Singerman as Black in his trade mark rubbish cramped
opening Tempted everything and hung on ....
was offered a draw after move 35 with my opponents 12 minutes to my 30 odd with
2R N + 4 Vs 2R B +6
I consider myself a Tad fortunate, I was going to win at least one P back
with the Advanced King 1½ - ½ to us....
2 cars bagged
the points soon after with a good win however we think his opponent may
have been under the impression they were playing Increments,
which me and tricky were, 2 cars noticed their clock was not ....... and
moved accordingly and mated ...his man
Tricky was last and looked to have the Tricky Game....... which with Increments
of course suited him ½ - 3½ to Dud le Monte , WELL
PLAYED GUYS
Singerman
22nd Nov 18
Terrill R2
Last
night a combined 2A/2B side took on the might of Solihull’s Division 1
side. In last season’s Solihull vs South
Birmingham league fixture, Solihull had fielded a side with an average
grade of exactly 200 (Jackson/224, Daskalov/223, Surtees/197, Head/196,
Thorpe/185, Hurtado/176 – 1201 points to be exact). Would they field
their big guns for the Cup match?
Luckily
they didn’t, and we lined up like this:
1.
Hurtado, Philip (180) vs
Tom-Tom (163)
2.
Sadler, Anthony (170) vs Sean (162)
3.
Summerfield, Julian H (159) vs TAL (161)
4.
Carpenter, Raymond (152) vs TOGITC (153)
5.
Brodie, Iain (150) vs
Darren
6.
Roper, Paul (144) vs Leonardo Matei
As
this was a Trophy match, we had a 2½-point handicap in our favour, meaning that
any result better than a 4½–1½ defeat would see us go through to the next
round.
On
Board 6, Leonardo was playing his first game for the club. I only managed
one brief glance at this game, where Leonardo had built up an
impressive-looking attack and most of Black’s pieces were on strange
squares. Ten minutes later it was all over and Leonardo had recorded his
first win – welcome to South Birmingham.
Boards
4 and 5 also started promisingly for us. Darren played a Benko Gambit which initially looked fairly even, but some
time later he had won Q for R+B+P. I wondered if White could construct a
fortress, but Darren had an outside passed pawn and looked to be favourite. On Board 4, Martin startled Ray Carpenter
(and everybody else present) by playing a recognisable opening – the Petrosian System against the King’s Indian. Martin
opened the h-file and he too won his opponent’s queen in return for some small
change.
On
Board 3, I was black against an English Opening. The position stayed
largely symmetrical (c4 and e4 vs c5 and e5) and I
got a good knight on d4. My opponent surveyed Boards 4 and 5, decided
that the match was not going Solihull’s way, and offered me a draw, which I
took.
Board
1 had started off as a Trompovski and then veered
into Semi-Slav territory. Tom-Tom looked to be comfortably holding the
position, but I made the mistake of going to the bar for ten minutes and, when
I returned, he had been out-manoeuvred and had to resign. Match level,
but the handicap meant that just one more draw would suffice.
Back
to Board 5 where Darren’s opponent was putting up a good fight, advancing his
limited forces into Darren’s position to try to construct a mating net.
Darren kept out of trouble and pushed his passed h-pawn. White’s rook had
to move to an undefended square to stop it, and after a couple of checks the
rook dropped off, giving Darren the game.
Martin’s
opponent also wriggled hard and actually managed to restore something close to
material equality, but at the cost of entering a dead-lost endgame – 3½–1½ to
South Birmingham. So we didn’t need the handicap.
That
just left Sean vs Tony Sadler, which was a Hippo
where, if I remember correctly, seven of Black’s first eight moves were pawn
moves (g6, d6, a6, b6, e6, h6 and g5 – he spoiled the effect by playing … Nf6
too). Sean got into a spot of bother and lost the exchange, but then
drummed up an attack and ended up with N+N+3P vs
R+P. The two knights and two of the pawns were in a mutually-defending
configuration in the middle of the board and, in that form, they marched into
Black’s position. Black’s rook was a spectator and White soon queened a pawn to end up with Q+N vs
R. Black was playing for stalemate and Sean had only about 30 second
left, but he stayed cool and eventually delivered mate.
So,
4½–1½ to South Birmingham (7–1½ with the handicap) and, as Martin said in the
car on the way home, we’d have won the match even if the handicap had been in
their favour, not ours!
Cheers,
TAL.
14th Nov 18
Two Dudley games have taken place
this week with Mixed fortunes
1st on Monday ....$ingerman, Tricky, Domino & Killa .in the Dud le Monte Team.
What looked a reasonable Line up for us (it was the Highest Grade Total we have
put out in Dudley Div 2 so far) ................ came unstuck against the
Strong Kidderminster Ringers
Me on B1 got the opponent I expected and had him cramped and gasping for
moves... However I could not see how to wrap it up....
believing I could crack the fortress I battle away, when in hindsight I should
of offered the Draw.... he eventually broke out and got me %$£"*
It was the second defeat in a row where I had lots of play as white in
the English Opening, and I really enjoyed the games except for the final
outcome,
Terry on Bd2 and Killa on Bd4 came up against two
Ringers...... you should know what that means by now... for those who don't
It is players who appear to have no grade or traceability suggesting that they
have little experience when in fact they have a hidden past, James O'Dell
has returned from many years in Spain
and played precise fast chess in which our experienced Tricky hung on for dear
life......... Remi Harris on Bd4 also showed skill
and no hesitation when beating Killa ..... My opponent let it slip he had won their club
tournament
Derek the Domino did what was asked on Bd3 against Mike
Kitchen... we have now P4 W2 D1 L1 and the door has opened for the chasing
pack, with Kidderminster now looking like the ones to beat.
2018-19 Div 2 Teams |
Played |
Won |
Drawn |
Lost |
Points |
South
Birmingham |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
Kidderminster |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
Warley
Quinborne |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Boldmere St Michael's |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Halesowen |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Mercia |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Stourbridge |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Mutual
Circle |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Bushbury |
|
|
|
|
|
Next DD2 Away to Boldmere 28/11
Next Monty Home to Mutual 3/12
South
Birmingham - Kidderminster |
Division 2 |
||||
Board |
Home team |
Score |
Away team |
||
1 |
Alan Woollaston |
0 - 1 |
David Waud |
|
|
Tuesday
was a different Story, Nurse, Brush, The Persian
and Windows got themselves to Sedgley middle earth
land of Mercia.
The Nurse Brushed the Broken Window under the Persian Mat 1-3 and the Double Champions of Dud Div 3 March
on towards the Treble with 100% after 3 BRILLIANT
2018-19
Teams |
Played |
Won |
Drawn |
Lost |
Points |
South
Birmingham |
3 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
Halesowen
A |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
3 |
Mercia |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
Warley
Quinborne |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
Walsall
Kipping |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
Halesowen
B |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
Stourbridge |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
Mutual
Circle |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Next DD3 Home to the Halo's A 5/12
Mercia
- South Birmingham |
Division 3 |
|||
Board |
Home team |
Score |
Away team |
|
1 |
Stuart Deeley |
0 - 1 |
Paul Heeney |
|
10th Nov 18
Div 1
Hi All,
Last night saw us play the newcomers of
Division 1 at their place which turned out to be a nicely sized room upstairs
in the Alvechurch Sports and Social Club. John had
never played against Redditch and it's been many years since I played against
their team in a competitive match. John and I arrived early and we chatted with
a couple of players who were talking about how they were big underdogs in this
match...I quickly reminded them of their thrashing of Shirley and said we were
taking them very seriously.
The 7.15 start didn't materialise and by 7.30, I noticed a
missed call from Pavel who had yet to arrive. Whilst
returning the call, Pavel thankfully arrived up the
stairs.
We out graded their team heavily but one or two of their
players might be under their actual standard...Especially the board 6 that
played Tim.
The match started and we certainly seemed focused and
didn't underestimate Redditch, we gradually got on top in most games and it was
only Tim's, when I looked which wasn't easy as they were playing in the corner,
which appeared to be difficult to assess.
Interestingly, we won 3 with black but only 1 with
white....I recognised the opening in Richard Mycroft's game on 5 v S. Russell Ug, it was the Austrian Attack in the Pirc.
Richard played ...Nh6 which I am always worried about playing as it can be out
of play for a long time. Both players attacked on opposite wings but whites
king was on d1 at one point whilst Richard had won a piece and his opponent
played a rook to e1 attacking a bishop with another black bishop behind it.
Richard played the crafty ....Re8 and if white takes the bishop on e5, if I
remember correctly, Richard's other bishop would take a pawn on g4 with check
and uncovering an attack on the rook on e5 by his rook on e8.....NICE!
1-0
John Pitcher won on board 1 v D. Lambourne
181 in a English Fianchetto where his opponent lost a
couple of tempo in misplaying the opening. Jon Swindells,
on board 2, always had the ideas and options in a Pirc
where Jon delayed d4 and had pawns later on d4, e5 and f5. The black kingside
became weak which proved decisive.
3-0
Pavel's game was a type of French, I believe. He built up a nice
position with light square weaknesses for his opponent and it looked a matter
of time for Pavel to put the game to bed. His
opponent hung on determinedly and the next I heard, they'd agreed a draw.
3 1/2
- 1/2
I will add a link for my game on board 3 but it was a
Modern Defence and there was a bit of history behind my change to the Modern.
I've played Nigel Towers 164 a few times and he once had coaching by IM Robert Bellin and learnt some ideas against the Pirc with the Austrian. I therefore delayed ...Nf6 and took
the game in a different direction with an early ...c5. I never really
relinquished my control of the game but made a couple of inaccuracies when my
opponent had seconds left. He could have drawn with best play but would have
struggled with not much time left I would think....4 1/2 - 1 1/2
Tim Lane on board 6 played Harry Evans 134 in another type
of English Fianchetto. Time had a bind with pawns on
c4 and e4 but consequently, his opponent had control of the d4 square and the
game eventually ended a draw. 5 - 1
A great win which puts us top of Division 1
Hitman
5th Nov 18
Div 3 Fireworks
In another Monday night Clash the Undefeated Rushall took on Undefeated Monty, at the Bowman Pub,
It gives the appearance of the type of place you would be attending if you was
after some other substance
rather than Drink...... I arrived 10 mins late with
the clock showing 5 mins elapsed for me.... Not one
to be hurried I went the Bar......
The rest of Monty were already deep in Battle.......... with no Tricky this
week the teams lined up as follows
Rushall
Monty
So a slurp of beer and of we went 1. d4
d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4.
cxd5 Qa5+ 5. Bd2 Qxd5 6. Nc3 Qd8 7. e3 e6 8. Bd3 Bd6 9. O-O O-O
10. e4 Bc7 11. e5 Nd5
12. Bxh7+ Kxh7 13. Ng5+ ......
He now has mate in two if I duck back behind the
Pawns........
we have been playing less than 10 minutes Time for the Zombie
if I am to survive this ..... Kg6 this Kings ain't
hiding from nobody and Leads the Troops in to Battle
14. Qg4 f5 15. Qg3 f4 16. Qg4 Qxg5 Take that 15 minutes now gone I'm two pieces up and
the locals have Fire crackers going off all around...... play contiues
17. Qxg5+ Kxg5 18. Nxd5 cxd5 19. g3 Kh5 20. Bxf4 g5 21. Be3 Nc6 22. Kg2 Bd7 23. a3 Bb6 24. Rfd1 Be8 25. Rac1 Bg6 26. Rc3 Na5 27. b3 Rac8 28. Rdc1 Rxc3 29. Rxc3 Nc6 ............
around 30 minutes and his white Flag is Raised .........Zombie
Bites Again........ He must hate me..... I luckily done him two years ago, The
Captain has shown the way ............. 0 - 1 SB
Feeling Smug I had a walk round. They haven't read the
Script... 2 cars had his Big girl missing and was not
looking happy..... Domino had a bishop missing .........
Invincible and Kitty looked to be Drawish......
Killa looked better.... A rook to Bottom supported by Queen
Check.... king moves off bottom and Killa picks up
the far rook .... This was enough to swing it
and restore Our Lead....
2 cars had already run out of gas without the Big Girl
1-1 Killa
makes it 1-2 to SB ...Domino to
be fair tried to make a fist of being a piece down but Alex levelled the
scores 2- 2 now at this point I thought Invincible has a draw but
what will Kitty do?? It looks even but he has only 14 mins to DJ's 28 he offers the draw.....yes I thought good
man.......NO ...DJ declines..... and to add on the
pressure..Steve forever Rushall Wilcox has pulled the
Plug and a rare moment
is taking place…… Our Invincible is no more and has lost... 3
- 2 .......ouch. What can I do...... What can I do......... Kitty needs some Inspiration
got it...........
On Fire works Night ....You need A
big Bang theory of Course
Soft kitty, Warm kitty, Little ball of fur.
Happy kitty, Sleepy kitty, Purr Purr Purr
Well Played that Cat grace under pressure sacked his advance pawn to drag his opponents king to the wrong side while Kitty gets his king
over to the pawns first 3 - 3 followed.....
Great overall Score guys massively out gunned but we did not fall........
Played 3 Won 2 Drawn 1....
$ingerman
5th Nov 18
Mighty Shirley against lowly Bees ends in 5-1 drubbing....
with a twist...
Div 1
Against the 2012-13 champions and perennial challengers
this was always going to be a tough task for Cory's Crusaders, despite the
amazing win v Sutton C. lightning couldn't
strike twice as they say...
We started well with all six of us turning up and being
full strength.
they were missing Mason and Briggs but still formidable with
experienced reserves.
all started well with Adam having a draw almost out of the
opening on board one.
0.5 - 0.5
other games were unclear - but in the battle of the Dave on 6,
our own Dave (Dunn) grabbed an early pawn... could he be the next to
finish??
I played Dale on 5 - I play him at least once a year with
the last 8 times or so being black. finally had
white and ironically got him in a huge bind on dark squares with a bishop on
e5, pawn on d6. a technical win followed...
1.5 - 0.5 (some of you may be spotting the twist now....)
AMJ was next to finish - what started as a positional maroczy bind style game exploded into a flurry of tactics,
then like a bonfire night firework crashed out in a big bang - AMJ's rocket exploded in Purcell's position... 2.5 - 0.5.
In the battle of the 'experienced' members of each team on bd 4 - ingram
v walsh, everyone expected a nice solid positional
fight. instead we got hagler
v hearns....
about 18 moves of blow for blow tactics that alpha zero couldn't
work through. no one bothered with material,
just the knockout blow - this wasn't going to the scorecards on this explosive
5th of november.
Ingram tried a big swinging left with his knight attacking
the rook, but a devilish right cross with a check by the queen and it was all
over, Ingram out for the count. 3.5 - 1.5, win secured.
Captain Cory had hardly started his position it seemed and
they took a drew 4-1
Dave Dunn finally converted his pawn with a good technical
end game about 30 minutes after the rest had finished... 5-1.
YES!!!! 5-1!! to us!!!! Against
Shirley!!!!
Diamond
2nd Nov 18
Div 1
Hi All, A fairly straight forward win for the 1st team
on Wednesday against a much under-strength Bushbury
team. They were missing IM Laurence Cooper who was ill. L. Grinsell and R. Parry of their regular players also
couldn't play.
I was struggling with my health on the night and recently
in general so I didn't see the games as much as I usually do so it's not a in
depth report but despite Bushbury being vastly weaker
than ourselves ..They amazingly finished with a plus on the top 2 boards. Their
top 2 players were graded 172 and 163 against our 214 and 211.
Their bottom 4 boards were graded 160, 120, 109 and
94...one of the weakest set of 'bottom 4 players' in Division 1.
Hitman HURN-ey
23rd Oct 18
Monty Div 3
Tonight On this Magic Monday I was on Bd2 Black again and
played C41: Philidor's defence and just like the last
Match I was first to finish
However where I had Blundered a piece last Thursday, my Opponent did tonight,
and showing no fight to the Death ....Resigned.........
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Be7 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Bg5 Bd7 7. Bc4 h6 8. Bh4 Nc6 9. Nf3 a6 10. O-O b5 11. Bd3 Nb4 12. Re1 Nxd3 13. cxd3 O-O
14. h3 Nh7 15. Bxe7 Qxe7 16. e5 Bc6 17. d4 Ng5 18. d5 Bd7 19. exd6 Qxd6 20. Nxg5 hxg5 21. Qf3 Qg6 22. Qg3 Rac8 23. Ne4 f6 24. Nc5 Rfd8 25. Nxa6 f5 26. Qd3 Qxa6
1-0 to Monty
before I had finished Domino on Bd1 was offered a draw , he surprised me
and played on, looking at it he did look to have the edge on the king side with
three Vs two pawns.... queens and a rook a piece were off
Tricky on Bd3 must of done some behind the scenes dealings which must of gone
something like I will not take if you don't a draw was agreed with 16 Pawns
forming a grid lock Barrier that no one was prepared to Crack...
1½-½ to Monty
Invincible, on Bd4 as Black won a piece early on however John Fryer dug in and
the game rumbled on for some time,
2 cars on Bd6 was playing David Short and for some unknown
reason seemed to be making hard work of what looked like good position, I would
say two thirds of the board was in his control, However,
Time was well down and not helped by trips outside for a Puff when it was his
go,
Killa on Bd5 was playing Fred Biles
who clearly knew what he was doing despite having a 103 grade, this game was
last to finish.... After I got back from a trip down to the bar I noticed Bd1
had finished with the players absent,
the card had been filled in and the refusal to take the draw offer had
backfired on Domino and the match was now all square..
1½ - 1½
Invincible soon restored the lead and is proving to be everyone's favorite reserve
2½ - 1½ to Monty
so just Killa and 2 cars left, Killa
looked to be in trouble with a gaggle of Pawns making a run for it,
2 cars Black was down to 1½ minutes Vs 15
however he had a cheeky attempt of mate, first sac the rook take back with king
then if his opponent does not move his king mate with the bishop
Cheeky Mushroom waited until the clock was below 30 seconds as if he hadn't
seen it... Game set and Match well done that man
3½ - 1½ to Monty
Fred Biles popped and blew his end game... Killa managed to stop the pawn gaggle and graciously
offered a draw which was accepted
4 -2 Monty
Well done Team a good night for the Black Bits all
three won.
1 (W)
|
136B
(136) |
N |
0 - 1 |
N |
138C
(138) |
2 (B)
|
135A
(135) |
S |
1 - 0 |
N |
130A
(130) |
3 (W)
|
131B
(131) |
N |
½ - ½ |
B |
126A
(126) |
4 (B)
|
050L
(0) |
N |
1 - 0 |
N |
125B
(125) |
5 (W)
|
126A
(126) |
N |
½ - ½ |
N |
103A
(103) |
6 (B)
|
126D
(126) |
N |
1 - 0 |
N |
102C
(102) |
Total |
704 |
4 - 2 |
Total |
724 |
$
22nd Oct 18
Bees Sting
Div 1
As Sutton Coldfield, the mighty league champions watched
Man City thrash Burnley at the weekend, they must have
been rubbing their hands with glee, relishing a similar result against the
Burnley of the Bham div 1, Cory's B team...
We were at full 'strength' so just in case Sutton brought
along a 260 graded player!!! maybe the strongest
rated player ever in the league??
Adam was due to play him, but was nowhere to be seen.
To be charitable, we'll say he lost on time in an even position against a 2580
fide rated player... 0-1 and a bad start...
other games were starting evenly - the white games - we and
Anne-Marie were grafting, but the three playing black had none of this and were
all out gunning for blood...
Dave 'Destroyer' Dunn then had a moment that would change
the course of the match, maybe world history... In a blocked position, he
performed the deepest positional exchange sacrifice ever seen in chess.
He gave up a rook to get the bishop pair and a good looking knight, realising
that about 20 moves later his opponent would run out of play and give the
exchange back and leave him with a pawn up. Dave muttersed
sth about a blunder and a swindle, but I assume this
is just modesty... 1-1 Marcus 'Professor of Positions' Walsh decided to
push Keith Escott off the board giving up his whole
queenside to get some lines open - his heavy pieces and a dark squared bishop
strafing in did the rest and Keith's fortifications broke down. 2-1..
A-MJ meanwhile was carefully nurturing a Walker Bishop - which for the uninitiated
is a totally blocked in bishop that just sits and waits and comes out after the
time control to win the match... trade mark of TW...
Cory has disregarding his q-side and going for a hack v Stepanyan... not looking good...My game was boggy and
positional - but he let me get a foot in generously giving me a light square
bind on c4 and d5 whilst he had a dreadful bishop on g7...Cory succumbed to
defeat to a 215 rated player, so no shame there - 2-2... My opponent started to
run short of time and started to make errors after 3 hours of play - a couple
of tactics to win pawns and he picked up his queen realizing moving it to take
my offered knight meant hisr rook went... mate
in 2 followed. 3-2!!!!! miracle is on!!
A-MJ was in a titanic struggle against former club legend, Ali 'G' . She was now a piece up - and you guessed it,
that trapped Walker Bishop was coming to life... sitting on c2 for 2 1/2
hours waiting for its chance to shine. Neither player had much time left when
Ali took a (boiling) hot pawn and wham bam, q goes to g6 supported by the
legendary Walker Bishop - winning the game and the match for us!!! 4-2 against
the might league champs!!! all four bottom
boards won - they were missing 2 of their 200s and a Welsh junior champ, but we
were massively outgraded still, so this is a
mini-miracle and will help the plan to stay up! Can Captain Courageous Cory
cajole his Caissa Crusaders for the challenge of
Shirley and Wythall in two weeks time???
we shall see, but for now we sign off as Burnley 4 - 2 Man
City...
Diamond
9th Oct 18
2A
It was a great evening at the club last night, with three
teams in action. I won't steal anybody else's glory by commenting on SB vs Halesowen in Division 5 of the BDCL or SB vs Mercia in the Dudley League, but here's a quick summary
of SB "A" vs table-topping Lichfield (four
out of four so far) in Division 2 of the BDCL.
Lichfield captain Mike Mahar
had phoned me before the match to say that they were travelling with only five
players, so I was able to stand down our Board 6, Simon. With one point
already in the bag, the teams lined up like this:
1 Malik, Faraz 164 vs Smith, John 154
2 Thomson, David 163 vs Giles, Alan 153
3 Ralph, Sean 162 vs Hulme,
David 146
4 Emanuel, John L 168 (2012) vs Maher, Mike P 140
5 Lane, Tim A 161 vs Slobodyuk,
Yuriy 130
6 Williams, Simon A vs Default
Sean, white on Bd 3, played
his home-grown Closed-Sicilian-with-b3 system, but was unable to develop any
initiative, and the game soon petered out to a draw.
My game on Bd 5 was a
Catalan where I was able to meet my opponent's ...d5xc4 with b3xc4, giving me a
central preponderance. Eventually I played d5 under favourable
circumstances, and was about to go into a very promising ending when Black
blundered.
Faraz, white in a Nimzowitsch Defence (1. e4
Nc6 2. Nc3 d6), quickly got a good attack going and won a pawn.
For a long time this looked like another full point, but John Smith
steered the position into a R+B+4P vs R+N+5P ending
where the bishop was better than the knight. Eventually, running low on
time, Faraz took the draw, leaving us 3-1 ahead.
On Board 4 John spent most of the evening on the back
foot, but eventually wriggled out into a just-about-holdable
R+Ps ending, which he just about held, thereby
securing the match. From the post mortem comments it sounded like both
players thought Mike had let John off the hook.
Last to finish was Tom-Tom, who had the luxury of
being a piece up for most of the evening, though the position was so congested
that it was hard to turn the material advantage into a win. The game went
on until the very end of the evening, but the extra piece eventually told, and
we had won the match by 4.5 to 1.5.
Lichfield remain top of the
table (P5, W4, eight points) but we're second (P4, W3, D1, seven
points). We have just one more match this year, then a further six after
Christmas.
Cheers, TAL
4th Oct 18
Monty’s
Terrill Torture
Hi everyone it’s very difficult to dress up a
heavy defeat, so here go's ........... we got the
Artillery over to Minworth to find…….
Odd Ball had loaded the tank with Paint, Moriarty had to many negative
thoughts, Big Joe dropped his gun & Crapgame was
all to Popular,
Basically we were out gunned although all boards looked very even at one point
around 7.29........
I was last to finish and played 45 moves so I will settle for that... a sort of
Queen's Gambit Declined Slav,
Well done to the Invincible one on Bd6 for preventing the White wash ........so
we regroup and fight again...
Te1-8 |
3½ |
|||||||||||
Sutton
Coldfield-1 |
|
5½ |
4 |
South
Birmingham-3 |
||||||||
210 |
Stepanyan, Henrik |
|
1 |
0 |
Woollaston, Alan T |
|
135 |
|||||
169 |
Ali, Golam S |
|
|
1 |
0 |
Walker,
Terry W |
|
131 |
||||
172 |
Escott, Keith L |
|
|
1 |
0 |
Stockhall, Derek A |
|
136 |
||||
175 |
Guha, Chirag |
|
|
1 |
0 |
Little,
Matthew |
|
126 |
||||
170 |
Owen,
Neil J |
|
|
1 |
0 |
Killarney,
Simon A |
|
126 |
||||
126 |
Oliver,
Peter JR |
|
½ |
½ |
Thompson,
Matt |
|
~ |
$
27th Sept 18
Div 3
Good Evening Ladies & Gentlemen,
Actually, I tell a lie. It is morning now. Here are the
scores on the doors for 'Monty Rolls Over Boldmere.'
Or SB Div 3 side begins their BDCL campaign away to Boldmere & St. Michael for those who remain
uninitiated.
I arrive at the appointed time - 6:45 at 2 Car's place. 2
Cars is still in his smoking jacket, most relaxed as always, and tucking into
some dinner. No sign of Domino. What's going on? It's all cool, chill man -
Domino is late but on his way. He is in Digbeth about
to catch the No 2. Besides, 2 Cars was a former Boldmere
player, he knows exactly where the football club is and is super confident we
can get there on time - Domino just has to get to us in the next 20.
So we busy ourselves watching Plasteed
body-popping, locking, electric boogaloo
extraordinaire. And song of the week from 'Freddie Flair Pants' from Glasgow -
I'm sure that is completely wrong and 2 Cars will have to correct me.
Anyroad up, Domino eventually gets off the bus and we watch him
start walking in the opposite direction away from us. Doh!
We call him back. In the car I query Domino on why he is late - trying to
get back from Dudley at 6:00 pm to meet us at 6:45. And what's so interesting
in Dudley anyway, what's keeping you? At this point Domino mumbles something so
indistinct and so noncommittal that it is obvious he has a romantic interest on
the go in Dudley and he has been with her all day and didn't want to come back!
All confirmed in my book by the fact that he wouldn't tell us her name either.
It was a strange evening. Many subtle and magical forces
seemed to be at work. Captain Singerman will have to
complete my report with the actual line up of forces in terms of who played who
- but for now you'll just have to bear with me.
First to finish was me on board 4. I can tell you that I
played Steve Fryer and he likes the Caro-Cann with
Black. I like to face the Caro-Cann with White and I
like the panov-botvinnik attack. Mr Fryer
apparently likes to play 5...Bc8-f5 which I have never seen before. I
responded with 6.Qd1-b3 and I like that move. And there is nothing wrong with
it. However, Mr Fryer responds with 6...Ktb8-c6 - which isn't really a problem.
But I convince myself that actually I might be in some trouble here - so I see
a ghost and fail to calculate correctly and it goes rapidly down hill from
here. In fact it was an agonizing, super slow-motion car crash over the
next 11 moves until we arrive at the final position and I am checkmated.
So first up out of the board there was nothing for me to do
but watch the other games unfold. I didn't see any of the openings. So first of
all I pick up Kitty on board 6. Kitty had an extra pawn on the queenside, R
& B. His opponent R & Kt. A while later the
rooks had been exchanged. A while later the remaining minor pieces. Kitty won
in classical style. The next time I saw the game his queenside majority had
advanced a little, as had his King and he had the opposition. The extra pawn
was gonna' get through to promotion. SB win.
Domino was on 2. I can't remember much of this one. Things
seemed to be reducing down to a drawish pawn ending.
And draw it was.
When I picked up the game of 2 Cars he was just about to
win a pawn on the queenside. Everything else was about equal with both players
- 2 Cars was playing Kevin Spillaine - having double
knights remaining. Things looked promising but after an exchange of one pair of
knights black's play seemed to stall. Pushing the
extra pawn through on the queenside wasn't going to be easy and then Spillaine started huffing and puffing - he was very short
of time - and to his credit created play on the opposite wing to produce his
own passed h pawn. At the end both players had to tie up their knights in
defensive roles. The only thing that swung it was that 2 Cars had a more
advanced king. SB win.
Tricky Terry on 3 played a great game. When I joined it
Terry had a solid position. Doubled Rooks on the c file and a 'Tricky' knight
floating around always threatening to jump into the heart of the enemy camp.
Sure enough, at my next glance Terry had caught Q & R in a knight fork and
won the exchange. Next, Terry's doubled Rooks were transformed into pigs on the
7th and things looked grim for his opponent. It still was a tense affair
though. Both players were a little short on time and there was still some work
to do. Terry's opponent tried to get his Queen and then Rook into counter-play
area but Tricky and the pigs didn't allow. After some forced exchanges Tricky
activated his king and it was gonna be a winning
endgame. SB win.
$ingerman
on 1. Playing Mike Biddle. Right from
where I first saw it this looked a loss for Singerman.
Biddle had 2 extra pawns on the queenside. He had also buried a
pawn-supported Bishop on d6 in the heart of Singerman's
position preventing castling. With the 2 cars game going a bit south on
board 5 and Singerman seemingly going further south
things didn't look good for the team as a whole. But as usual - Singerman sees the bright side of every situation and
played it like he had never intended castling and proceeded to push the
kingside pawns and open the files there. Mr Biddle was very short of time and
was visibly wobbling under the pressure. He still had a winning position but Singerman's counter-play was beginning to pick up momentum
just at the wrong time for him. And then suddenly out of nowhere a massive
knight fork on the Rooks appears for Singerman. It
was one of those things that you see immediately just with a casual glance at a
board in passing - but somehow the players - deep into the game and deep into
the position can miss - it was such an occasion. Biddle didn't see it coming
and Singerman didn't spot it and capitalize. No matter,
it was probably the last scare of the night that Mr Biddle wanted to experience
and a moment or 2 later - even though his queenside pawns were sure to cause
big trouble - he offered Singerman the draw. So after
looking like a loss for much of the evening SB finished 4 - Boldmere
2. Yay!
We retired to the bar to celebrate. Wonderful
result team. Thank you and that's it. This report is already long
enough!
Signing off - K
27th Sept 18
Div
2
The
2A side was involved in another unbearably
tense finish last night, at home to West Bromwich.
The sides
lined up like this:
1. Malik, Faraz (164) vs Walker, Nicholas A (188)
2. Thomson, David
(163) vs Quraishi, Shahab WA (174)
3. Ralph, Sean (162)
vs Crump, John E (160)
4. Emanuel, John L
(168/2012) vs Davies, Dave M (159)
5. Lane, Tim A (161)
vs Pincher, Jonathan P (137)
6. Williams, Simon A
(152) vs Wesson, Geoffrey C (123)
First to finish was
Simon who, playing Black, ran into a little home cooking (1. e4 e5; 2. d4 exd4;
3. Bc4?!) and never quite
seemed to equalize, despite most of the pieces being exchanged.
Eventually a pawn fell off, but worse was to follow. Simon was playing
his first game at the new “all moves in 80 minutes with a ten-second increment”
time limit, a fact overlooked by his inept captain, who had neglected to
mention the rule change. You can guess the rest – well past the 30-move
mark, and expecting a second allowance of time to be added, Simon let his clock
run down to zero and lost on time. First blood to West
Bromwich. Faraz had a tough task on top
board, playing White against Nick Walker. Faraz
fianchettoed his KB and
castled early, and Walker chose to leave his king in the centre and open the
h-file. He also got some pressure on the c5-to-g1 diagonal. I
didn’t see the end of this, but it didn’t go our way. Two-nil to the bad guys.Tom-Tom was also under pressure on Board 2, and at one
point looked close to defeat, but his opponent mistakenly went into an
opposite-colour bishop ending that, despite a two-pawn advantage, couldn’t be
won. 2½-each. John played a Winawer
with 6. ... Qc7 on Board 4. Both sides castled
on the K-side, and White built up some steady pressure. John had to play
… c5-c4 to keep White’s bishop off d3, and … f6-f5 to avoid an f5 break,
leaving his own white-square bishop as a mere spectator. White opened his
g-file and trebled his major pieces, and defeat looked imminent. The
spectator bishop grabbed a pawn on a4 and another on c2, and then White’s attack
broke through, his queen arriving on g6 with a nasty check. Hang on
though… overlooked by White, g6 was defended by the spectator bishop on
c2. Good-bye queen, and we’re back in the match
at 2½–1½! On Board 5 I had useful positional pressure for most of the evening
and, despite some inaccuracies towards the end of the night (Fritz tells me I
overlooked a mate in seven – I hate it when that happens!), eventually managed
a full point too. Match level. So we all clustered round Ralph vs Crump on Board 3. I
hadn’t seen much of this game (Closed Sicilian I suspect) but by this time it
had resolved to K+R+N+P vs K+R. Trouble was,
the enemy K+R were deep in Sean’s position and Sean had less than a minute left
on his clock. If he dropped the last pawn a draw was inevitable. At
one point I thought Sean had forgotten about the clock, as he let it run down
to having just four seconds left, but I needn’t have worried – a flurry of
checks built up enough time to allow me to start breathing again and drove Black’s king offside, at
which point John Crump decided he had seen enough, and we had won the match!
Next week a combined
2A/2B sides plays WQ2 in the Terrill Trophy, and then league action resumes on
Monday 8 October, when we’re at home to early-season table-toppers Lichfield
(P3, W3).
Cheers,
TAL.
20th Sept 18
WQ2 Vs 2A
(aka Talent Squad)
Evening
all,
Thursday
night saw South Birmingham's 2A side hosted by Warley Quinborne
in what turned out to be a very tense and close match.
The
teams lined up as follows:
1
Fahy, John F (154) vs Malik, Faraz (164)
2 Turner, Jon (150) vs Thomson, David (163)
3 Jeffs, David (140) vs
Ralph, Sean (162)
4 Moxley, Stephen (136) vs
Emanuel, John L (u/g)
5 Maybury, Philip C (129) vs
Lane, Tim A (161)
6 Pakenham, John H (100) vs
Lo, Matthew (125)
First
to finish, playing white in a Philidor Defence, was
Matthew Lo. Matthew withstood a useful-looking attack, won a pawn, and
simplified to a won king-and-pawn ending. I was looking forward to
writing the first "1" on the scorecard when Matthew sadly played a
terrible blunder and plucked defeat from the jaws of victory.
Tom-Tom
was also white, against Jon Turner's Scandinavian Defence. I didn't see
too much of this but got a summary from David on the way home. Faced with
the loss of a pawn he decided to give up the exchange instead, and got a
powerful bishop on the long black-squared diagonal in compensation.
Eventually the pressure got too much for the defender and white won a rook and
the game.
Sean
was black in a Dutch/Nimzo hybrid. Most of the
pawns remained on the board for most of the evening and, although Sean did his
best to drum up some play, the position remained stodgy and level.
Eventually peace was declared, leaving the match level at 1½-1½.
The
other three games all went down to the wire.
Faraz was black in a Stonewall. I only saw snippets
of this, but Faraz seemed to be under some pressure
early on, before starting to turn things round and developing a promising
initiative. I decided we had no worse than a draw there.
On
board 4, John played 2. d3 against the French.
White normally fianchettoes his KB in these systems,
but John got quick development and his bishop, unusually, ended up on d3.
After a dozen or so moves, John was tempted into a Bxh7+, Kxh7, Ng5+, Kg8 sacrifice.
His queen went to c2 to threaten mate on h7. The problem was, Black could get a knight to f6 to defend the mate.
John tried to get a rook to e3 and then f3 to threaten the knight, but it all
looked a bit slow. This one looked like a draw at best.
Playing
black on board 5, my own game started 1. Nf3 d6; 2. g3 e5. I managed to build up some pressure in the
middle-game and eventually won a pawn, but I made a mistaken swap of a pair of
minor pieces and ended up with 2R and a bad bishop against 2R and a good
knight. I was desperately trying to find a winning plan, but eventually
my extra pawn dropped off and, behind on the clock, I decided to bale out with
a draw. Two-all!
By
now Faraz had won a couple of pawns and both sides
were bashing out the moves in a R+P ending with a minute or so left on each
clock (we were playing with 10-second increments). Faraz
avoided a couple of traps and eventually promoted a pawn. 3-2 to SB!
On
board 4 John was on the ropes, a piece down, with black pawns advancing to e4
and f4. A mistimed ...f3 allowed him to grab a pawn back, but the
position got wildly tactical, with pins, counter-pins, and threats of
discovered check, and just seconds left on each clock. Suddenly I saw
that John was losing his queen for (I thought) a rook. Game over?
Match drawn? Not yet! Either I mis-read
the position, or black misplayed it (take your pick), and suddenly the dust
cleared and John had 2R vs Q and was fractionally
ahead on time. Black had an extra pawn or two on the Q-side and could
have tried to use them to force a win, but at ten seconds per move it would
have been a tough ask, so he offered a truce, and we had won the match 3½-2½!
TAL
18th Sept 18
Dudley
Double up at Mutual
Tonight the SB Dudley Div
2 and Div 3 took on Mutual Circle in a Tag team Dudley affair,
Captains Singerman & Windows done a bit of team
sorting out in the car park to maximize the effect.
SBD2 Lined up Bd1 Invincible (AKA Mat Thompson), Bd2 Singerman,
Bd3 2 Car Mats, Bd4 Killa,
SBD3 Lined up Bd1 Kitty, Bd2 Windows, Bd3 Brush, Bd 4
Persian Mat (lives on the Pershore Rd (AKA Mat
Smith))
This was my Game in which I was White, my draw offer after playing 28.h6 was
accepted, it seemed unclear at the time to how the dust would settle.
1. c4 e6 2. e4 Bc5 3.
d4 Bb4+ 4. Nc3 Nc6
5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 b6 7. Nf3 Nge7 8.
Bd3 O-O 9. h4 Ba6 10.
Be3 Na5 11. Nd2 d5
12. exd5 exd5 13.
Qh5 Ng6 14. f4 Re8
15. Kf2 Nxc4 16. Nxc4 Bxc4 17. Bc2 Qf6 18.
Rae1 h6 19. Qg4 c5
20. h5 cxd4 21. cxd4 Ne7 22. Qf3 Nf5 23.
Bxf5 Qxf5 24. g4
Qc2+ 25. Kg3 Re4 26. g5 hxg5 27. fxg5 Rae8 28.
h6
After 8 Boards of
Chess the scores read in our Overwhelming Favour MC 1½ - 6½ SB
With three Mats amongst our players you could say we hit them with the Carpet
shop.
SBD2 145max
Matt Trig (145)
0
Invincible Mat (Ug) 1
Mike Hollier (135)
½ Singerman (135)
½
Richard Leaper (133) ½ 2
Car Mats (126)
½
Chris Pitt (121)
½ Killa (126) ½
SBD3 115max
Peter Hughes (99)
0 Kitty (102)
1
Shammas Tabraiz
(85) 0
Windows (100)
1
Emile Paffard-Wray(74) 0
Brush (99)
1
Jan Trembecki (40)
0 Persian Mat (75) 1
Afterwards Five of us got on the Magic Carpet and rolled on to Adils Balti House …. EXCELLENT......
$ingerman
15th September 18
Club Room
Upgrade (CRU)
Hello Chess Players,
Yesterday (Friday), I arrived at the club at 9.00 a.m. to
move all the stuff out of the analysis room ready for the arrival of the carpet
fitter.
Windows arrived shortly afterwards to assist with anything
that needed doing.
The carpet fitter arrived at 10.00 a.m. to fit the carpet
and completed the task at 12.30 p.m.
After vacuuming the carpet, Windows and I then returned the
tables and chairs to the room.
The bookcases and all the books have now been reinstalled.
Pictures have now been hung on all the walls. Finally finished at 5.00 p.m.
Work now completed and the room is ready for you to enjoy.
I hope you like it?
Thanks go out to all those volunteers who did the work and
the members who contributed financially.
Your combined effort made this possible.
Cheers,
Tricky
3rd Sept 18
1st BDCL
Match 1A Vs 1B
Hello All,
Sorry
this is a bit later than usual but on Monday the A team had a very tough match
against our own B team. As I was playing, I didn't get to see much of other games
but I will give a quick report of games. I was in the Elizabeth of York
pub having a coffee and I always check for e-mails in case of late messages
from players that need to be acted upon.
About 6.45-6.50pm, Neil sent a message saying he was
unwell....I went to club only 5 minutes away and Terry started ringing players
and Singerman, who was just about to have his dinner
(What a star!), got to club for 7.30pm and was rewarded with a game against
Richard Mycroft. I think it was 3 Knights and when I looked near the end,
Richard was a rook up in the endgame and the first to finish. This might have
been planned by Singerman to get back for his dinner, His match-fixing case comes up on Monday!!!
ha-ha......
Jon Swindells won on the black
side of a Ruy Lopez against
Ann-Marie James and John Pitcher had an exciting type of French Defence with
Cory Hazlehurst but as Cory plays the Caro-Kann, he
probably played...c6 and ...c5 to get to this type of position. Jon's King was
in the centre on d or e2 but Cory at some point sacrificed a rook or two. Jon
won the game!
I was on the black-side of a Kings-Indian Yugoslav against
Dave Dunn....The game was tight for the first 20 odd moves but a few mistakes
on my part and good play by Dave won him the game. He finished with a nice
combination!
Robert Glass lost against Matt Thompson in a Nimzo-Indian in which Matts Queen
and Bishop were stronger than Rob's Queen and Knight...Rob sacrificed his
knight but gained nothing from it.
3-2 up and James Hanley v M. Walsh was very nicely
poised....I think James was a pawn up in a Queen and minor piece endgame where
he had to be careful of dark square weaknesses around his king. He played a few
checks and reached a position where Marcus's king would have had to move to the
same rank as the queen which would have been lost next move
4-2
Well done team!!
Hitman.
29th August 18
And so it
begins …….Again
Pre season Friendly Match
The
32nd annual "Friendly" match between Olton and South Birmingham took
place on Wednesday 29 August 2018 at our club room.
This
year the match took place over 18 boards (originally 19, but my opponent
defaulted). Result therefore not counted in line up.
With
our top ten graded players not available to play in the match, it was difficult
to field a strong team. It was thought based on Olton's team last year
that this could be our year for defeat.
At
the last minute, players from the "old guard" in the form of David
Dunn and Martin Smyth came to the rescue to strengthen our team.
Olton
were without their usual top board (Phil Holt) which also helped us.
Members
from six of our seven teams played in the match and represented our club.
I
expected to get most of our points from the bottom boards, where we have a lot
of under graded talent.
They
did not disappoint. More surprisingly, look at the top 4 boards.
The
first player to finish was new member Kavin who won
his game fairly quickly and opened the score in our favour.
Results
continued to go our way throughout the evening giving us our 19th successive
victory!
1.
Neil Clarke 168
1- 0 Alan Lloyd
194
2.
David Dunn 166 1
- 0 Mark Cundy
171
3.
Sean Ralph 162 1
- 0 Richard Smith 160
4.
Tim Lane 161
1 - 0 R. Liszewski
154
5.
Martin Smyth 153 ½ - ½ Rch. Reynolds
150
6. Rob Glass 153
0 - 1 Rob. reynolds 150
7. Imogen Dicen
141 ½ - ½ Rob. Wallman 147
8.
Derek Stockhall 136
½ - ½ John Freeman
146
9.
Alan Woollaston 135 ½ - ½
Richard Evans 143
10.
Simon Kilarney 126
1 - 0 Thomas Evans Jr 129
11.
Mat Little 126
1 - 0 John Asbury 126
12.
Mat Thompson u/g ½ - ½
Frank Jimenez
121
13.
Roy Gough 117
½ - ½ Jim Gillespie 116
14.
Paul Heeney 107
0 - 1 David Reeves 111
15.
Derek Green 101 1 - 0
Tom Evans Sr
93
16.
Joe Kadar 99
1 - 0 John Clulee
68
17.
Kavin Selvaraj
u/g 1 - 0 I.Mahmoud 53
18.
Elis Dicen
92 1 - 0 M.Mahmoud u/g
Total 13 - 5
Tricky
29th June 18
The end of another Season ………Another Curry night
The Diwan Balti Restaurant have now built us
our own section and again TOP MARKS for service and Food.
This
Picture was taken by The Brush, Kitty nodding off as usual…
21st June 18
Second
Trophy of 2018-19 season
SBCC 480max summer league Champions,
A total of eight players helped the team to achieve this
with Paul Heeney AKA Nurse scoring 5/6
It has to be said a
large amount of gratitude is owed to Solihull for getting their sums wrong when
adding up grades.
Well done
President
480 |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Pts |
SP |
MP |
IM |
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10 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
25 |
15 |
16 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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10 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
25 |
15 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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10 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
23 |
17 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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10 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
17 |
23 |
9 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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10 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
17½ |
22½ |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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10 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
12½ |
27½ |
5 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
21st June 18
First Trophy
of 2018-19 season
SBCC win a 5½ - 2½
aggregate victory over Warley Quinborne to become 400max summer league Champions,
A total of ten players helped the team to achieve this but the
most outstanding performances were achieved by new members
Mat Thompson who
scored 6/6 and Kavin Selvaraj
who scored 5/6. Well done to both of them.
Terry
480 |
Team |
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P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
Pts |
SP |
MP |
IM |
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10 |
8 |
1 |
1 |
29 |
11 |
21 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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10 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
29 |
11 |
20 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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8 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
16 |
16 |
9 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
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8 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
15½ |
16½ |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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8 |
2 |
0 |
6 |
12 |
18 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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8 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
½ |
29½ |
-2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
20th June 18
Summer
Programme of events 2018
A programme of special events has been
arranged for Wednesdays as follows:
4 July 5 minute tournament
11 July Lightning Tournament (10 seconds
per move)
18 July 10 minute tournament
25 July Kreigspiel
and Four-handed chess
1 August 10 –minute tournament (set
opening: Caro Kann)
8 August 5-minute tournament
15 August Lightning tournament (10 seconds per
move)
22 August Simultaneous Display by John
Pitcher
29 August Annual “Friendly” match against Olton Chess Club
On
Monday 3 September the opening night of 2018/19 season starts with the first
match when our 1A team will be playing against our 1B team.
Events will start promptly at 7.30 p.m.
Please try and be at the club by 7.20
p.m. if you wish to compete.
Some of these events are very popular and
late arrivals may be unable to complete their games in the available time.
16th
June 18
Club Room Upgrade (CRU)
The story so far -
Last week we left you with Miracle Man, bloody but unbowed and wearing his
underpants outside his other garments like a proper superhero, hanging by
his fingernails over a dark pit full of ravenous Miracle Man eaters.
Now Read On...
During the week - Killer came and did required painting touch-ups.
Terry came and hung new curtains. Main room emptied of furniture on Wed
evening.
Windows & kitty came in 10:00am on Friday to oversee carpet laying and finish window slats and other little jobs.
Carpet men laid new carpet. Finished at midday.
Expected about an hours work after carpet men finished.
Turned into an epic with door problems, problems with new chairs etc - finished
at nearly 6:00pm !
Note - Barman Bob will be seeing about the gas pipe. We not
to touch it. Kitty will arrange 'weather' deflectors outside windows to
protect against
driving rain and fit PADSS (ran out of time).
The 'bottom line' is : The club room main decorating
project is essentially
completed and the room ready for use again.
regards kitty
That's All Folks ! Asta La Vista Baby, Sayonara etc. etc.
10th June 18
Club Room
Upgrade (CRU)
Dear
Alice et al
just to be
clear...they are not 'window flaps' !!!
- they are our new 'High Tech Air Conditioning System'
(H-TACS) with
Bi-Lateral
Individual Climate Control (BLICC)
OK
??
fyi
-
Alice
had purchased and bought along exactly the same 'H_TACS securing kit' as I had,
that morning in another place, almost bought then rejected on
price grounds
at B&Q. He paid (PoundstretcherLand Shop) less
than half wot I would have been charged. And, because
he's a good egg, he doesn't want any
money for it.
Nor for the five million screws he put in the squeaky boards. Then everyone
left. The painting done. (Although Simon will pop in
to do a
few
touch-ups during the week. He
told me he was good at that sort of thing). The room looks so
much better now after the cleaning & painting
which was by
far the bulk of the work and much thanks are due to the painting team,
including Nursey who battled with his near terminal
vertigo
problem at the
top of the ladders on Saturday!, so abley led by our
own expert Joe. Members have helped with
their free labour and expertise, ideas
aplenty
(solicited and unsolicited!) and several with free donations of tools/materials
to get this job done for as little cost to the club as possible.
A true team effort.
Tim
& kitty decided that the addition of a Personnel Anti-Defenestration Safety
System (PADSS) would now be sensible. This will consist of a strip of
wood going
across halfway up the each window since they were now so clean after little
Matt's deep cleaning exploits that you can now, unexpectedly,
actually see
through them almost as if they weren't there. Those green tinges we could
previously discern through the windows have resolved
themselves into
trees ! While many shops and businesses put stickers on their doors/windows to
help prevent people walking into them, we had relied
on 30+
years of grime and grot. Until Matt happened ! Left
alone I began the job of fitting the H-TACS securing kit but, just in
time,
realised that the locations of some of the securing mechanisms depend upon the
sealing strips. And we don't have them yet. But we will soon.
So,
instead, I tidied up the analysis room a bit then left. The bottom line is that
I will complete the H-TACS (& BLICC) and PADSS
installations later.
(prob. Friday after the carpet men finish). The main
difference between this 'bottom line' and one of Alice's 'bottom
lines' is
that this one is near the end !
best regards
kitty
24th
May 18
Clubs AGM took place tonight, with around 20 members in
attendance.
A Small rise in Membership fees was agreed
to cover rising costs of ECF membership plus Clock and Web fees.
Full membership which include ECF fees
will now be £45 with half Membership being £35
Best Junior Award was won for the second
year by Imogen Dicen
Potters Trophy for dedication to the
cause was awarded to Joe Kadar
Nickers Trophy for the most Draws in a season was won by Rob
Glass who amassed an incredible 25
Yours truly was elected as the annual
Club President. No Russians Involved.
The End of Season Curry Night will be
Friday June 29th
1st
May 18
Div 1 Play off
One-A beat
Solihull in a play off for the BDCL Runners up Trophy, Since 2000 this is the
sixth runners up win to add to the 8 Championship Titles. Making 14 top two
finish’s in the last 18 years
29th
April 18
Summer League
SBCC have Entered all four Sections of
the BDCL Summer Rapid play League, Two teams in the open section and a team in
560max, 480max and 400max sections
26th
April 18
Club Room
Upgrade (CRU)
Chess players,
Many thanks to those of you
who have offered to help out with the decorating party. This will take place
on the earlier of the two weekends originally proposed, namely 9 & 10
June.
Kitty the Property Developer
and Joe the Brush have been working a little magic to broaden the scope of the
project. As a result of their planning and arm-twisting, we have a number
of pieces of good news:
The All Services Club is
going to donate towards the cost of the work. Thanks are due to Joe the
Manager (normally to be found at the far end of the bar).
23
April 18
Dudley 1 Champions
SB Dudley 1 became
champions after putting Sutton Coldfield to the sword with a great ½ -3½ Away victory
With one game
still to play SB have only lost one board from 20 played
SB Dudley 1 Have
emulated SB Dudley 2 & SB Dudley 3 Teams by winning the division at the
first attempt
SBCC can now boast
to winning FIVE division titles in four Seasons
2018…..Div 1 &
Div 3
2017.....Div 3
(Div 2 lost out on Board count)
2016.....Div 2
2015…..Div 2
22nd
April 18
Ârchive Section
The Ârchive Section now contains BDCL Match
records which were mixed in with club history,
Dudley, Cannock &
Summer League, Plus…. The Annual “Friendly” Match records with Olton Chess
17th April 18
Minnie Mouse
Elis
Dicen (6) AKA Minnie Mouse younger sister of Imogen (912) won her Second Game in five days.
Elis
After a great Debut win for MNFour Thursday against a WQ….108 on Board six. Added
another win Monday, this time for MNFive by beating her board 5 opponent who was a former Ky....131
Great
thanks to the Dicen Family for giving time and
allowing The Girls to be part of our club………… The futures
Bright, the futures Dicen Powered.
11th
April 18
Dudley 3 Champions
SB Dudley 3 became
champions for the second year running after a 4 -0 win against Mercia
SB have only lost four
boards from 24 played
Excellent Performance
from Scott Leadbetter AKA Geog,
finished 100% 6 from 6 with Paul Heeney, AKA Nurse
gaining 4½ from 5……….
13th
March 18
BDCL 2018 10 second
buzzer Lightning Tournament
South Birmingham Entered a Team in each of
the three sections of six rounds Lightning Tournament
Section A Team Jon Swindells.
Cory Hazelhurst. Adam Szelc.
Sean Ralph. Tim Lane. Finished 2nd winning 14½ out of 24 Boards
Section B Team Rob Glass. Terry Walker.
Derek Stockhall. Simon Killarney. Finished 1st
winning 12½ out of 24 Boards
Section C Team Derek Green. Imogen Dicen. Matt
Little. Paul Heeney. Elis Dicen. Finished 1st winning 15½ out of 24
Boards
Elis Dicen age 6
won Three out of Three games played.
Section A |
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Teams |
SC-A |
SB-A |
Olt-A |
Sol-A |
MC-A |
Wes-A |
Totals |
Finished |
Suton
Coldfield A Section A Winners |
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1 |
SC-A |
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3 |
3 |
2½ |
4 |
4 |
16½ |
1st |
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2 |
SB-A |
1 |
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