Essex Chess League 2019/2020 Division 2
Date: Monday 20 January 2020 Venue: Redbridge Social Centre
Board Ilford 4-4 Loughton I
1 166P Twitchell, Neville H 0-1 Bowmer, Kevin 188P
2 158P Kent, Anthony R ½-½ Stirling, William J 182P
3 141P Kalinsky, Syd M ½-½ Faulkner, David J 155P
4 135~ Subramanian, Venkatesh 1-0 Van Tol, Martin 147P
5 145P Klimach, Jason W ½-½ Moth, Simon C 142P
6 128P Page, Jeffrey 0-1 Groce, Ken 135P
7 125P Ainkaran, Lavanan 1-0 Kershaw, Graham J 130P
8 100~ Undre, Taha ½-½ Stiffell, Lyn 129P
Given Loughton walloped us 7-1 at there place last October, a 4-4 draw was a better far return on our effort. Kershaw sacrificed a N for the attack but Lavanan’s careful defence won him the endgame, and Venkatesh nicely got the better of Van Tol. Stirling had a good position against Anthony Kent but lost his way to give the opportunity to stay level. Taha could make no headway against Stiffell and also took a half. Bowmer put Neville under attack sending a pawn up to the 7th rank and although it was the last game to finish Kevin won the endgame. Jef was put under pressure on the q-side and lost a N in a time scramble.
The shared points pleasingly takes us, at least temporarily, off the bottom of the league table, but we need at least to win more matches to stay up in division Thanks to everyone who played (from Jef’s notes).
Jef deep in thought on Board 6
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