The first team did well with John Naylor winning convincingly, my game is given below - also a win and Jonathan had another quick win which we will try and get on the blog asap. Sadly Martin resigned when he lost a rook admitting that he had forgotten that Knights can move backwards !
[Event "Cov Chess B v Rugby A"]
[Site "League Div 1"]
[Date "20009.10.3"]
[Round "?"]
[White "P. Wood"]
[Black "R.Wildig"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "?"]
[BlackELO "?"]
%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. dxe5 dxe5 8.
Qxd8 Rxd8 9. Bg5 Re8 10. Bxf6 {White normally plays 10.Nd5 Nxd5 11.cxd5 c6
here with a level game.} 10... Bxf6 11. Nd5 Bd8 12. Rd1 c6 13. Nc3 Bc7 14.
O-O Nd7 15. b4 a5 16. b5 Nc5 17. Ne1 h5 {Black wanted to avoid 17 ...Ne6 18
Bg4} 18. Nd3 Ne6 19. Rb1 Nd4 20. b6 Bd6 21. Rfd1 {Not seeing Blacks threat}
21... Bb4 22. Nxb4 axb4 23. Rxb4 Ra3 {There is no satisfactory answer to the
threat of Rxc3 followed by Nxe2 ch.} 24. Nb1 Nxe2+ 25. Kf1 Rxa2 26. Nd2 Nd4
27. f3 Be6 28. h3 Rea8 29. g4 hxg4 30. hxg4 Rc2 31. g5 Raa2 0-1
The B team did well too, winning 2.5 1.5 also against Cov Chess. I saw Nigel and Malcolm won their games - not sure about where the half came from.
C team lost but it was good that James Mendes returned to his winning ways. Chris Pegler took her game down to an ending where she was the exchange down. This is the normal 'grind' of chess, Chris, so hope you didn't find it too difficult!
