Stockport Reds v Marple A

Defeat in a game that I thought we might do well in unfortunately. Michael fell for an opening trick (that I fell for last year!) to lose an exchange early on and couldn't hold the resulting position. I wasn't far behind. I had a nice position but made the cardinal sin of moving a protected piece to an unprotected square. This led to a combination that ultimately cost me a piece and the game.

So, 2-0 down after less than 90 minutes (and we weren't playing football). Alex soon drew in a complex position in which he was probably better but was also short of time. It would have been easy to lose.

Glenn generated an interesting position against his Spanish opponent which looked like it might have enough weaknesses for force a win but there wasn't so another draw and the score was 1-3.

George had a double edged game against Dave Pardoe and despite looking hair raising (to me) at times, it soon became apparent that he would win, which he duly did.

Which meant all rested on Terry, our star performer this year. Unfortunately, his opponent always had the better position and to be fair finished it nicely in the end.

So four more league games to go. We probably need a couple of wins to be absolutely safe - lets try for one of those in the next game, at Denton on Wednesday 2nd March!

Stockport Reds 4 - 2 Marple A

Bd	Stockport Reds	Home	Away	Marple A
1	Hulmes, David I	0.5	0.5	Longson, Alexander
2	Taylor, Mike	1	0	Fernandez, Michael
3	Sheppard, Daniel C	1	0	Hewitt, Sean D
4	Pardoe, David	0	1	Kolbusz, George
5	Arnal, Paula Perez	0.5	0.5	Trueman, Glenn
6	Crowther, Michael P	1	0	Cowling, Terry