Match Card
1. Tony Kay 0.5-0.5 Marc Jackson
2. Andy Jenkins 0-1 Peter King
3. Chris Baker 0-1 John Kelly
4. Terry Cowling 1-0 Ian Anderson
5. Jeff Barlow 1-0 Anthony Prime
Total 2.5-2.5
My game was last to finish and was looking like a dull draw,
I was black and we had two minor pieces and pawns each. Anthony offered a draw
and I probably would have taken it but we needed the full point to tie the
match. Reassessing the position I had a dark squared bishop and a knight, my
opponent had the bishop pair. We both had IQP’s and white had doubled isolated
f pawns, probably the key weakness.
Normally I would prefer the bishop pair but I suddenly realised that I
could attack the f pawn on the dark square with the king and both my
minor pieces whereas my opponent could only defend it with one of his
bishops. This is probably obvious to
most of you but I hadn’t considered this bishop and knight cooperation
before. It took my knight quite a few
moves to get into position but that was not a problem. Realising that he could not defend against
this threat my opponent sacked his WS bishop to get a passed pawn but it turned
out that my king could catch it so he then resigned. This was instructive for me in
that I could have easily have agreed to draw this position which I now think
was winning.
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