1. John Kelly 0-1 Tony Kay
2. Marc Jackson 1-0 Andy Jenkins
3. David Preen 0-1 Chris Baker
4. Ian Anderson 0.5-0.5 Terry Cowling
5. Anthony Prime 0-1 Jeff Barlow
Result 1.5-3.5
Andy was first to finish, losing to Marc Jackson, one of his bogey players. I didn't see anything of his game. Chris was playing David Preen and was next to finish. (Chris kindly provided the following summary.) Chris had white in highly positional symmetrical English opening. The game was very level for the first 20 moves until a slip by David suddenly allowed Chris some tactics that gained a pawn after a series of exchanges and left him with good prospects in the ensuing end game. Immediately afterwards, David blundered losing a knight and resigned.
The scores were now level then Tony won his game to make it 2-1 for Marple. Terry's ended in a draw though he was several pawns up. So we would win the match if I could get anything from my game. I was playing white against the French Defence, which I often play as Black, but I was surprised by Black's third move. After 1. e4 e6, 2. d4 d5, 3. Nc3 he played h6, a novelty for me, though not unknown as I later discovered. I am still not sure of the point of this. I played e5, probably not best but familiar ground and cramping Black's kingside. I ended up with a plus but down on time. Black eventually freed his position with c5 to level things. After a series of exchanges I found myself unable to save my e5 pawn and at this point was probably losing if Black had taken his chance to advance his own e pawn. Instead he chose to double his rooks on the f-file, which looks natural but gave me a chance to get back in and win his e pawn. My opponent then fell far behind on the clock and his position collapsed leaving me with a won game. This gave us the match win if a little fortunately in my case.
For those interested I append the moves.
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 h6 4.e5 b6 5.Qg4 Ba6 6.Bxa6 Nxa6 7.a3 Qd7 8.Qe2 Nb8 9.Nf3 Ne7 10.0–0 Ng6 11.Be3 Be7 12.b4 0–0 13.h3 f6 14.Qd3 Qe8 15.Rae1 fxe5 16.Nxe5 Nxe5 17.dxe5 Kh8 18.Bd2 c5 19.bxc5 Bxc5 20.Ne2 Nc6 21.Be3 Nxe5 22.Qc3 Nc4 23.Bxh6 Qg6 24.Bc1 Rf7 25.Nf4 Qf6 26.Qxf6 Rxf6 27.Nxe6 Bxa3 28.Bxa3 Nxa3 29.Nd4 Raf8 30.c3 Nc4 31.Re2 a5 32.f3 a4 33.Ra1 a3 34.Nb5 Ra8 35.Rea2 Ra5 36.Nxa3 Nxa3 37.Rxa3 Rxa3 38.Rxa3 Rd6 39.Rb3 d4 40.cxd4 Rxd4 41.Rxb6 Rd2 42.Kh2 Kh7 43.Kg3 Rd4 44.Re6 g6 45.Re4 Rd5 46.f4 Kg7 47.Re3 Kf6 48.Kg4 Rd4 49.h4 Rd2 50.g3 Rd5 51.Kf3. Black lost on time, 1–0
Afterwards Chris pointed out that, 51 Re5 would have been an excellent move, if Black exchanges it is a simple win, if not then h5 is strong.
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