| Home Team: Kents Luton | Away Team: Bedford D | ||||||
| Board | Name | Grade | Score | Score | Name | Grade | |
| 1 | Andrew Perkins | 188 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Richard T Bodily | 140e | |
| 2 | Michael Joseph | 152 | 0 | 1 | John J Harbour | 141 | |
| 3 | Pete Montgomery | 145 | 0 | 1 | Gerry Nolan see game |
141e | |
| 4 | Marek Gladysz | 142 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Callum T Shields | 123 | |
| 5 | Samir Vora | 140 | 1 | 0 | Ben Pike | 80e | |
| Date Played: 03/03/2014 | 2 | 3 | |||||
Captain John’s notes – in approximate finishing order:-
- Callum and Marek swapped off some pieces and agreed a draw
- Ben played the Morra Gambit against Samir but got distracted on the Kingside when the c file was begging to be owned
- Gerry planted a bishop on d6 early on, and Pete’s position was horrible from then on see game
- Richard had no real problems against Andrew’s Sicilian and agreed a draw an exchange up with just four minutes left on his clock
- Michael and I manoeuvred patiently (at one point he played Nf3-e1-d3-c1-b3 – I thought it was better placed on f3). At the first time control we had exchanged just three pairs of pawns, and we entered the blitz finish in a complicated middle game position. We both missed chances (Fritz has him as +6 immediately before the move that allowed me to win a piece) and his final mistake was to resign when we both had a minute left and I could easily have lost on time trying to mate him.
So Luton suffered their first defeat of the season. Up the Ds!!