Love for Sale

Played at the Navigation last evening -

Marple      V    Sale       Charnley Cup     05/11/2015

1 M Fernandez  1-0  L Taylor
2 G Trueman     1-0  J Thompson
3 D Hardy          0-1   P Gledhill
4 N Livesey        1-0   J Hennessy
5 C Baker           1-0   A Parry
6 D Preen           1-0    L Lougheed

                            5-1

We had the pleasure of entertaining Sale chess club last evening for a Charnley Cup encounter. One of their players explained to me before the match that Sale have no high graded players but are a bunch of chess enthusiasts who play for the love of the game. This showed as although they were outgraded on every board they gave absolutely everything they had in the hope of causing an upset. The match was closer than the scoreline suggests. The visitors very nearly got something on boards 2,4 and 5 and obtained the full point on board three where Paul Gledhill seemed to me to play well  above his grading  to secure the win. This turn of events was admirably accepted with good grace by Dave.
Many thanks to all who played/drove . I know some of you eschewed pyrotechnical displays  to attend which was much appreciated.
There was also a very exciting B team match taking place on the same evening. I won't write about it here as I don't want to steal the Captains thunder but I do want to commend Neil for a very generous sacrifice (off the chessboard) when he offered to step down after we discovered that somehow we had too many players. This after setting all the equipment up!