Played at the Navigation last evening -
Marple 1 V Denton 1 Manchester League Div One 12/05/2016
1 A Longson 1-0 K Celinsky
2 S Longson 1-0 R Raichev
3 G Trueman 0.5/0.5 T Hilton
4 A Hall 0.5/0.5 J Eversley
5 C Baker 0.5/0.5 I Urwin
6 D Preen 1-0 T Ireland
7 J Barlow 0-1 V Germayo
4.5-2.5
This was a critical match in terms of our Manchester League Division One status. We needed to win to escape the clutches of relegation, even a draw would have left us needing to get something from a very difficult final fixture at Heywood.
Sarah led the way with the first decisive result of the evening when she won a piece relatively early.
Alan, Chris and myself all achieved draws. I was surprised by the appearance of my opponent as Tim had "retired" from evening chess a few weeks ago. At least I now know how Reshevsky felt at Sousse in 1967.This was followed up a nice win from David leaving us with a healthy scoreline of 3.5/1.5.
However there was still a twist. Jeff had been looking absolutely fine for a long time but went wrong in a K+P ending resulting in a win for the opposition . All now depended on the last remaining game where both players were down to their last few minutes.
With icy precision Alex "sacrificed" a Rook to create a most elegant mating net. We were safe (4.5/2.5).
As always thanks to all who played. This has been a difficult season in a very strong Manchester League with a lot of our higher graded players unavailable most of the time, so staying in the top flight is no mean achievement.
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