Disappointing Defeat to Wanstead

ESSEX CHESS LEAGUE DIVISION

Wanstead won the toss- White on odd boards.

Wanstead House, Tuesday 9 October, 7.30pm

Board	Wanstead III		4½-3½	Ilford
1	151A	Jones, Keith	1-0	Twitchell, Neville H	174B
2	147B	Burtt, Laurie	1-d	Mugalu, Hassan	164A
3	144A	Siddo, Charlton	½-½	Kent, Anthony R	151A
4	143A	Collyer, Alex	0-1	Klimach, Jason W	137C
5	140D	Lu, Andy W H	1-0	Kalinsky, Syd M	141A
6	131A	Smith, David	½-½	Page, Jeffrey	139B
7	131A	Haddock, Paul	0-1	Ainkaran, Lavanan	127C
8	108d	Barman, Devdoot	½-½	Tutu, Marshall	094D

Wanstead won the toss and were White on odd boards.

(Edited from Jef’s notes)

A poor start to the season for Ilford,though there were some very good personal results.

Anthony Kent set up a good position with an advanced passed pawn but fearing it might fall took a draw. However, this quick draw was immediately followed up as we levelled the match score when Haddock sacrificed a Bishop to try to drive Lavanan’s King out into the open. But when Ainkaran offered to swap Queen’s, Haddock naturally declined- fatally overlooking a simple Q back-rank mate in just 17 moves! Jef did well to hold off Dave Smith’s control of the a-file, but then counter-attacked against his K with Q, R & B which he only just managed to stave off as jef sought for the mate.

Neville Twitchell got into a tangle losing doubled c-pawns from which he never recovered as Jones followed up with a Q, Rook & Knight attack, whilst Kalinsky pushed Lu hard and won a piece but as time ran out, Syd unfortunately blundered in a flurry of moves. Jason did well to defeat Collyer, but probably the best result of the night for us was Marshall who, after working late & rushing to Wanstead, had to give up over 40 minutes on the clock. He still managed to play calmly enough to secure a Rook and pawn endgame draw.

Thanks to everyone who played, and a welcome and timely return to matches from Neville, Lavanan & Marshall.