A triumph for new player Olushola Borusade (who won as Board 2), and a good night for Roy Talbot who drew (on Board 1). Not so pretty for Joe and Chris who both lost. Chris's loss is shown below. Advice on where she went wrong and how to avoid in future would be appreciated. It started so well ...
[Event "CDCL Division 3"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2010.10.5"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Pegler (Rugby D)"]
[Black "Blunden (Coventry E)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteELO "64"]
[BlackELO "46"]
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1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 d6 3. g3 Bg4 4. Bg2 g6 5. O-O Bg7 {Feeling exposed so move to
protect centre pawn} 6. c3 Bxf3 {Well I am happy to exchange here.} 7. Bxf3
Qd7 {I can see that the queen could move in on me but had no idea of what
would happen ...} 8. Bf4 {Just to develop.} 8... Qf5 {Still can't work out the
plan. But I now have one of my own ...} 9. Qb3 b6 {Which he thwarts (sort
of).} 10. Bxc6+ {:-)} 10... Kd8 {Now, I can take the Rook but took a long time
contemplating e4 and that was probably a better move. Opnions please.} 11.
Bxa8 e6 12. e4 {What should I have done instead? Maybe Nd2 and then Nf3? }
12... Qh3 13. Nd2 Nf6 14. d5 Ng4 {That's it. I really am in touble now. } 15.
Nf3 {The only way to save myself from Qxh2++} 15... exd5 {He's closing in
...} 16. Bg5+ f6 17. Be3 h6 18. Qb5 dxe4 {How to stop him taking my
life-saving knight?} 19. Bxb6 {Desparate measures now, but still can't make
this work for me.} 19... axb6 20. Rfe1 exf3 {Okay, that's it. I resign.} 0-1
