Bedford A consolidated their top spot in the Beds League with a comfortable 5-0 victory over a heavily outrated Luton B team.
| Board | Rating | Bedford A | V | Luton B | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2119 | Ledger, Stephen C | 1 – 0 | Gladysz, Marek | 1751 |
| 2 | 2117 | Gardner, James | 1 – 0 | Jones, Dixon H | 1654 |
| 3 | 2043 | Dairi, Ramsey | 1 – 0 | Montgomery, Peter | 1596 |
| 4 | 2035 | Collacott, Nick | 1 – 0 | Juhasz, Aleksandar | 1623 |
| 5 | 1921 | Taylor, Alex | 1 – 0 | Pye, Andrew | 1450 |
| Total | 10235 | 5 – 0 | 8074 |
On bd 1, my opponent traded some pieces early on which allowed me to equalize quite comfortably although it wasn’t that clear how I could conjure up some winning chances. W then traded some more bits, allowing me an ending of R,B+6 V R,N+6 so, if nothing else, I could grind away in various B for N endings.
W then, rather obligingly, allowed me a cheapo to win a pawn before, equally obligingly, trading the minor pieces followed by the rooks. I’ve never really liked K & P endings and don’t seem to get that many but this one was fairly simple and was duly converted.
On bd 2, B played a fairly iffy opening allowing James to build a dominating looking pawn centre. After 15 or so moves, James won / B lost a piece and the game followed not long afterwards.
On Bd 3, Peter Montgomery probably put up the most resistance, in the last game to finish, but when I saw Ramsey had pawns on f3, g4 and h5 Vs f2 & h2 I assumed he’d probably manage to win which he duly did.
Nick’s game & comments on bd4 will follow by Whatsapp.
On bd 5, Alex was the first to finish. Apparently, he whipped up a fairly devastating attack quite early on and his opponent never really got into the game before it was all over 🙂-
Next up, Luton A on 24th March.
Steve Ledger,