| Home Team: Open University | Away Team: Bedford C | ||||||
| Board | Name | Grade | Score | Score | Name | Grade | |
| 1 | Peter C Clarke | 178 | 1 | 0 | Gerry Nolan | 151 | |
| 2 | James NO’D Alexander | 141 | 0 | 1 | Giuseppe Valerio | 144 | |
| 3 | Ray Holland | 143 | 1 | 0 | Peter S Gill | 126 | |
| 4 | George Ward | 136 | 1 | 0 | J Nigel Staddon | 124 | |
| 5 | Lau Gainpaulsingh | 90e | 1 | 0 | Peter T Housden | 108 | |
| Date Played: 03/03/2016 | 4 | 1 | |||||
Another disaster, but Bedford C has definitely achieved its pre-season goal of avoiding promotion.
It all started well, with everyone having reasonable-looking positions, but in quick succession Nigel and Peter H made unfortunate errors and that was the end for them.
My game started ok, but I ended up with too many pawn weaknesses, resulting in losing one of them and that was all it took.
Peter G had a very promising-looking attack, but then lost a couple of pawns and eventually the game.
The one beacon of light in this general gloom was Joe’s game. He had a very blocked position with just pawns left, when it suddenly went wild. Both players ended up queening pawns, then swapping queens and Joe was able to queen a second pawn and win the game with just seconds left on the clock – a great result for him.
I keep thinking that things can only get better and being regularly disappointed.
Gerry Nolan 5th March 2016