So near and yet so far. They had a much stronger team than in the match at Marple two weeks ago (average grade 167 instead of 140). We were outgraded on every board (not for the first time this season), but lost by only the smallest possible margin. Congratulations to Terry on beating an opponent graded more than 30 points higher. Also thanks to Barrie for agreeing to play at very short notice, and giving Alan Beresford (graded 62 points higher!) a very tough game, and (last but not least) giving Terry and me a lift back to Marple. (Barrie isn't on email, so won't see this -- we did give him our thanks last night.)
The next A team match is scheduled to be at home against Stockport Blues on Thu 13 Jan. Since the function room in the Navi may be unavailable that week (because of refurbishment -- hopefully to the heating), we may suggest to Stockport that we switch our home and away games: in that case, we'd be away on Thu 13 Jan and at home on Thu 17 Mar.
Cheers, Tony
Chorlton A Marple A
1 H.Mkhumba 0.5 G.Trueman 0.5
2 D.Owen 1 G.Kolbusz 0
3 R.Nurse 0.5 S.Hewitt 0.5
4 C.Vassiliou 0 T.Cowling 1
5 A.Sainsbury 0.5 A.Doust 0.5
6 A.Beresford 1 B.Edwards 0
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3.5 2.5
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