Marple C V Stockport B

Here is the result of last nights Stockport League Division 2 match.

Marple C    V   Stockport B   21/10/2013

1  S Hegarty    1       M Taylor  0
2 G Trueman   0.5    M  Tunstall 0.5
3 N Livesey     0.5    D Sheppard 0.5
4  T Kay           0        M Crowther  1
5  A Siddiq      0     A Coe          1
6  A Jenkins     1     J Barber   0

                         3                        3

An eventful match concluded with honours even.  First to finish was Tony who fell foul of some devastating Mike Crowther tactics. After  missing the chance for a slight advantage I was forced to reach the sanctuary of an opposite colour Bishop ending or be in an inferior. position. Nigel had a more interesting draw in which  his opponent Dan later thought both  sides had  chances at various times. Sid making his Marple debut was eventually ground down by a very experienced campaigner.
So 1-3 and looking bleak when the cavalry arrived in the shape of Andy who had a nice win against Jill and in the last game to finish Sarah who demonstrated the superiority of her beautifully centralised Knight on e5 against Mike Taylors unfortunately placed Black square Bishop.
Thanks to all who played -particularly Sarah who stepped in at the last minute owing to Pauls illness. 3-3 is a more than reasonable result as I think we were outgraded on 4 of the 6 boards.

Glenn.