Match result: Marple B vs Denton B: 20th November 2014

Match result: Marple B vs Denton B: 20th November 2014

1.     Chris Baker       (129)      0-1       Laszlo Antal        (170)
2.     Terry Cowl        (127)      0-1      Tim Hilton           (158)
3.     David Preen     (125)        0-1      John Ryan            (165)
4.     Jeff Barlow       (124)       0-1      George Kolbusz  (155)
5.     Trefor Thomas (100)        0-1      David Holt           (146)
6.     Neil Dainty       (99)         0-1      David Boulden     (143)

Total                                         0-6

A wipe out I'm afraid,  though we were heavily out-graded on every board.  I can't comment on the other games as I was too busy keeping my head above water playing our former colleague George.  I enjoyed the game and even thought I might get something out of it at one stage.  I made the first blunder and thought that would be it but let me back in, giving me good prospects if it went to an endgame.  At this point he launched a sacrificial attack, which, though dangerous I thought I could hold it. We were both short of time and I failed to defend it.

[Date "2014.11.20"]
[White "Barlow, Jeff"]
[Black "Kolbusz, George"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C01"]

1. e4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. d4 Bd6 5. Nc3 Ne7 6. Bg5 f6 7. Bh4 c6 8. Bg3
O-O 9. Qd2 Bg4 10. Be2 Re8 11. O-O Bxg3 12. fxg3 Nd7 13. Bd3 Nf8 14. Rae1 Qb6
15. Na4 Qd8 16. Nc3 Nfg6 17. h3 Bxf3 18. gxf3 Qd6 19. Kg2 f5 20. f4 a6 21. Nd1
b5 22. c3 Rad8 23. Re2 Rf8 24. Rfe1 Rf6 25. Qe3 Nc8 26. Qf3 Qd7 27. Re3 Nd6 28.
Qe2 Ne4 29. Nf2 Qd6 30. Bc2 Rdf8 31. Nd3 a5 32. b4(?? embarrassing!) Nxc3 33. Qh5 axb4 34. Bb3
Ne4 35. Rc1 Kh8 36. Qe2 Qb8 37. Qe1 Nc3 38. Nxb4 Ne4 39. Nxc6 Qd6 40. Nb4 Nxf4+
41. gxf4 Qxf4 42. Rc6 Qg5+ 43. Kf1 f4 44. Rxf6 Rxf6 45. Rf3 Rg6 46. Ke2 Qg2+
47. Rf2 Nxf2 48. Qxf2 Re6+ 0-1