The B team lost our home fixture against Urmston. They fielded a solid team evenly graded from 127 to 113 and we eventually went down 3.5 - 1.5.
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Marple B | | Urmston | |||
| 1 Tony Doust | 0 | 1 | Keith Johnston | ||
| 2 Jeff Barlow | 1 | 0 | Joe Royle | ||
| 3 Peter Kelly | 0 | 1 | Jim Bradley | ||
| 4 Trefor Thomas | 0.5 | 0.5 | Tim Plunkett | ||
| 5 Neil Dainty | 0 | 1 | John Reyes | ||
| | 1.5 | 3.5 | | ||
Earlier I had thought we had chances of at least drawing the match with some promising positions on the boards. I was last to finish again though managed to win this one. There was a lot of cat and mouse about my game but I thought I was winning. My opponent was in serious time trouble approaching the time control and I didn't think he was going to make it. I made the mistake of playing for time pressure so when he did make the control I had to try to refocus on winning the position (as I should have in the first place). I managed to side step a draw by perpetual check and force a resignation.
We have an away fixture against Stockport D next Thursday, 21st April and a home fixture against them the following week; it's just like the Champion's League, well, apart from ........
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