TEAM CHANGES AT STOCKPORT

For our second game in two nights the E team had three forced changes. Missing from Monday, stalwarts Trefor and Tony returned to the line-up, which was just as well as we only had five players available.
We were unable to replicate our success at Macc the night before:

1. John Kelly      (132)      0 - 1    Chris Baker      (126)
2. David Preen     (130)      0.5     Trefor Thomas (111)
3. Peter King         (127)   1 - 0    Tony Doust      (107)
4. Ian Anderson    (111)     0.5      Neil Dainty     (93)
5. Anthony Prime (103)    1 - 0  P Kelly             (87) 

          STOCKPORT C    3 - 2     MARPLE E

As you can see we were outgraded on the boards were we lost.     I didn't see much of the other games.  Peter lost a piece early on and held on to be last to finish.  Chris was first to finish, perhaps he'd like to add a comment.  My own game was even most of the time, but I missed a chance to win a piece with a tactic (OK a simple tactic) I'd been waiting to play.

Once again I'll impose my game on you just in case someone can help me!

(8) ANDERSON,Ian (111) - DAINTY,Neil (93) [A26]

SDCL div3 Stockport, 11.02.2014

[Dainty,Neil]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d6 3.e4 e5 4.g3 g6 5.Bg2 Bg7

6.Nge2 0–0 7.h3 Be6 8.d3 Nc6 9.0–0 Ne8

10.f4 f5 11.Kh2 h5 12.h4 Nf6 13.Bh3 Qd7

14.Ng1 a6 15.Rb1 Ne7 16.b3

            the Nc3 is now loose and I am looking to play exf4 then fxg4 winning the piece ¤

16...c6 17.Nf3 Nh7 opportunity missed! I wanted to prevent Ng5 when there was no need.

My exf4 was on:

 [17...exf4 18.Bxf4 Ng4+ 19.Bxg4 (19.Kh1 Bxc3) 19...fxg4 20.Na4 (20.Ng5 Bxc3) 20...gxf3 21.Nb6 Qd8 22.Nxa8 Bg4 23.Qc1 Qxa8]

18.Ne2 fxe4 19.Bxe6+ Qxe6 20.dxe4 Nf6

 21.Ng5 Ng4+ 22.Kg2 Qd7 23.Qd2 Rad8

 24.Ba3 Nf6 25.fxe5 dxe5 26.Qxd7 Rxd7

 27.Rbd1 Rfd8 28.Rxd7 Rxd7 29.Bxe7 Rxe7

30.Rd1 Bh6 31.Nc3 Bxg5 32.hxg5 Nh7

 33.Rd6 Kf7 34.Na4 Nxg5 35.Nc3 Re6 36.Rd7+ Re7 Diagram

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8-+-+-+-+(
7+p+Rtrk+-'
6p+p+-+p+&
5+-+-zp-snp%
4-+P+P+-+$
3+PsN-+-zP-#
2P+-+-+K+"
1+-+-+-+-!
xabcdefghy

 

I can see no way through. Draw agreed. ½–½