The third team (Roy, James, Joe and Chris) played in the second round of the Divisional Cup at Massey Ferguson Social Club. Our worthy opponents were Coventry Chess, including nine year old Rajan who made Chris really work for her win. You can see this below - with apologies for losing the way in the notation at the end. (Click through to move 16 and see whether you can guess what happened next move.)
[Event "Cov Divisional Cup, Div 3"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2009.10.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rajan Parekh"]
[Black "Chris Pegler"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "?"]
[BlackELO "?"]
%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 g6 5. Bxc6 bxc6 6. Nxe5 Qe7 7. Nf3 d5 8.
e5 Ng4 9. h3 Nxe5 10. Nxe5 Qxe5+ 11. Be3 d4 12. O-O dxe3 13. fxe3 Bd6 14. Rf4
Qxe3+ 15. Rf2 Bc5 16. Qe2 O-O {Ah yes. This would be castling instead of
taking the Queen on e2. WHAT a good idea!} 17. Qxe3 Bxe3 18. Nc3 Bxf2+ 19.
Kxf2 Rb8 20. b3 Rb4 21. a3 Rf4+ 22. Kg1 Bf5 23. Ne2 Rh4 24. a4 Re8 25. Ng3
Bxh3 {Kamikaze move but I had been obsessing about this one for some reason
...} 26. gxh3 Rxh3 27. Ne4 Rf3 28. Kg2 Rf5 29. b4 c5 {The notation is a bit
strange around here but the next move is bxc so this must be what
happened???} 30. bxc5 c6 31. Nd6 {A nice little fork from Rajan. But I have a
plan ...} 31... Re2+ 32. Kg1 Rd5 33. Ne4 Rxc2 34. Re1 g5 {About time to
develop pawns} 35. d4 Rf5 36. Ng3 Rd5 37. Nh5 {I can see a sneak attack coming
so I move the King} 37... Kf8 38. Rd1 g4 39. Nf6 h5 40. Nxd5 cxd5 41. Kf1 a5
42. Ke1 Ke7 43. Rd3 h4 44. Re3+ Kd7 45. Re5 g3 46. Rxd5+ Ke6 47. Re5+ Kf6 48.
Rh5 g2 49. Kd1 Rc4 50. Kd2 g1=Q {The notation gets even more strange after
this but Black mated at around move 56. If Rajan is reading this and sees some
strange moves that he did not recognise then let me know and I will amend.
Good enjoyable game. } 0-1
Sad to say this was our only win of the evening. James concluded his winning streak with his first loss this season - on time after a tough game. Thanks to Joe for organising us all and for transport. We will be back at the same location next Tuesday and hoping to do better.
