2011/12 LEAGUE RESULTS

I've just finished putting up the results so far and the League Results (headline scores) are in. Its been a challenging year and one where University of Warwick seems to be made up entirely of good chess players, so few surprises. Here you are - well done everyone.

DIVISION 1

TEAM	P	W	D	L	Pts.
UNIVERSITY A	12				21
NUNEATON A	12				16
COVENTRY A	12				13
UNIVERSITY B	12				11
RUGBY A	12				10
RUGBY B	12				8
NUNEATON B	12				5

DIVISION 2

TEAM	P	W	D	L	Pts.
UNIVERSITY E	14				25
COVENTRY B	14				19
COVENTRY C	14				14
COVENTRY D	14				14
NEWDIGATE	14				12
NUNEATON C	14				10
NUNEATON D	14				9
RUGBY C	14				9

Coventry C (For minus Against = 0), Coventry D (For minus Against = -2),
Nuneaton D (For minus Against = -8), Rugby C (For minus Against = -11)

DIVISION 3

TEAM	P	W	D	L	Pts.
UNIVERSITY C	12				19
UNIVERSITY D	12				17
COVENTRY F	12				12
RUGBY D	12				12
COVENTRY G	12				12
COVENTRY E	12				8
NUNEATON E	12				4

Coventry F (For minus Against = -1), Rugby D (For minus Against = -3),
Coventry G (For minus Against = -5)

Chris's game for the C team

The synpsosis of this game would be:

1. Dodgy start
2. Progress in the middle
3. Starting to look promising towards the end
4. What? How? She's done it again!!

Defeat dragged from the jaws of victory, as you will see. Note that some of the notation is a little dodgy but I think that the game went like this. If I Evans would let me know the last few moves I can put the whole show up.

Play Online Chess

[Event "CDCL Cov C v Rugby C"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.3.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "I Evans"]
[Black "C Pegler"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteELO "115"]
[BlackELO "65"]

%Created by Caissa's Web PGN Editor
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d5 3. cxd5 Qxd5 4. Nc3 Qa5 5. Bd2 Bd7 6. Ne4 Qa4 7. Nxf6+
gxf6 8. Qxa4 {There - Nicola would be proud of me :-) Queens swopped in no
time.} 8... Bxa4 9. b3 Bc6 10. e3 Nd7 11. f3 e5 12. Ne2 O-O-O 13. e4 b6 {A
long way around to a fiancetto ...} 14. d5 Bb7 15. Nc3 Bb4 16. Rc1 Nc5 17.
Nb5 a5 18. Bxb4 axb4 19. Na7+ Kd7 20. Bb5+ Ke7 21. O-O Kd6 22. Rfd1 Ra8 23.
Nc6 Rxa2 24. Nxb4 {Oops! Didn't see that coming ...} 24... Ra5 25. Bc6 Nxb3
26. Rc3 Nd4 27. Kf2 {My notation is awry here. I have Bcg which can't be right
so think it was this. } 27... Ba6 28. Nxa6 Rxa6 29. Ke3 Nxc6 30. dxc6+ Ke7
31. Rd7+ Ke6 32. Rxc7 Rd8 33. Rd3 Rxd3+ 34. Kxd3 Kd6 {I think that I have
finally quelled the advanced pawn threat! (Rhsy says don't get too proud of
myself - I probably just got lucky).} 35. Rxf7 Kxc6 36. Rxf6+ Kc5 37. Re6
Ra3+ 38. Kd2 b5 39. Rxe5+ Kc4 40. Rd5 b4 41. Rd8 Ra2+ 42. Ke3 b3 {My notation
comes awry here but from this promising position I ended doing a rook exchange
and losing my pawn. }

If you can't read the game on screen the notation is in the comments below.

John Hall has offered the following analysis:

13 b6? Consider B2g or Bg7
17 a5? BxB+ KxB(King then can't castle) I could then move Kb8 (out of trouble)
21 Kd6 Suggests that this could be played as Move 20
24 Rb2! would be much better
29 Nxcg6? Suggests Rg8 instead to develp last peice, or Rb8 and push the b pawn down the board
34 Kd6 - b5! would have been better

Thanks John. I will try and do better next time and certainly read more on end game for next season.

Note the date of the CDCL AGM

Rugby C vs Coventry C - 28 Feb 2012

Match report courtesy of John Hall

1. John Hall 0.5- 0.5 Howard Jones
2. Malcolm Harding 1-0 S Manickam
3. Olushola Borisade 1- 0 Simon Weaver
4. Gareth Bailey 0- 1 Ian Evans

So we won the match 2.5 - 1.5

Game of the night was Malcolm's win against Saravana Manickam a fantastic attack. Mine was a careful closed King's Indian defence while Shola was last to finish with a nice careful controlled win over Simon Weaver. Here is Malcom's game
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Bg4 6. c3 Nf6 7. d3 Bd6 8. Bg5 Qd7 9. Nbd2 h6 10. Bh4 O-O-O 11. Qc2 Qe6 12. d4 g5 13. Bg3 Nh5 14. Bxe5 Bxe5 15. Nxe5 Nf4 16. f3 Bh5 17. Nb3 f6 18. Nc5 Qg8 19. Nxc6 bxc6 20. Qa4 Rd6 21. Qxa6 Kd8 22. e5 Re6 23. Rfe1 g4 24. Qb7 Nd5 25. exf6 1-0

Refinements to the ECF Grading database

COPIED FROM COVENTRY CHESS CLUB BLOG Mike Johnson has discovered that now on the ECF Grading Database, if you click on your "ref number" next to your name you now get a lot of very useful data on your chess playing career.
When you click on your ref no you have four tabs:- Profile, Standard Games, Rapid Games and Grade progress.

For example if you click on the "Standard Games" tab and select a year from the drop down menu you can see a list of your results for that particular year and if you scroll down to the bottom of the page it is even presented in a Pie chart format!
Click on the "Grade Progress" tab and you can see the progress (or lack of!!) of your grade in a graphical format since 1994.


Its well worth a look. Here is the link to RugbyChess Club members page:

http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?club=Rugby

Make sure that you note what the scale is when looking at progress.

Jamie's Game

Further to Bob's post, here is Jamie's game against Jason Smith.  One of Jamie's longest games with 80 moves. and in case the embedded board doesn't work, here is the PGN...
1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. c4 d6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Bf4 Nbd7 7. Be2 c5 8. d5 h6 9. Qd2 g5 10. Be3 Ng4 11. h4 f6 12. hxg5 fxg5 13. Nxg5 hxg5 14. Bxg4 Ne5 15. Be2 Qe8 16. Bxg5 Ng4 17. f3 Ne5 18. Bh6 Qg6 19. Bxg7 Qg3+ 20. Kd1 Qxg7 21. Qh6 Qxh6 22. Rxh6 Kg7 23. Rh2 Bd7 24. Kc2 Rh8 25. Rah1 Ng6 26. Rxh8 Nxh8 27. Nd1 a6 28. Kc3 b5 29. b3 b4+ 30. Kc2 a5 31. Nb2 a4 32. bxa4 Bxa4+ 33. Nxa4 Rxa4 34. Kb2 Ng6 35. Bd1 Ra3 36. Bb3 Nf4 37. g3 Nd3+ 38. Kc2 Ne5 39. Rf1 Kf6 40. Kd2 Ra8 41. g4 Rg8 42. f4 Nf7 43. e5+ Kg7 44. e6 Nd8 45. g5 Rh8 46. f5 Rf8 47. f6+ exf6 48. gxf6+ {should have gone e7 instead of gxf6+ for the pawn fork but missed it.} 48... Rxf6 49. Rxf6 Kxf6 50. Ke3 Nb7 51. Kd3 Nd8 52. Ke4 Nb7 53. Kf4 Na5 54. Kg4 Nb7 55. Kh5 Na5 56. Kh6 Nb7 57. Kh7 Na5 58. Kg8 Ke7 59. Kg7 Nb7 60. Kg6 Na5 61. Kf5 Nb7 62. Ke4 Na5 63. Kd3 Nb7 64. Kc2 Na5 65. Kb2 Nb7 66. a3 bxa3+ 67. Kxa3 Na5 68. Ba2 Nb7 69. Ka4 Nd8 70. Kb5 Nb7 71. Kb6 Nd8 72. Kc7 Nxe6+ 73. dxe6 Kxe6 74. Bb3 Ke7 75. Bd1 Ke6 76. Kc6 Ke7 77. Bg4 Kd8 78. Kxd6 Ke8 79. Kxc5 Kd8 80. Kd6 1-0

Nice game Jamie !

The A team had some overdue success on Tuesday beating Nuneaton B by 3.5 to 0.5

Our B team lost to Nuneaton A by the same score however !

I am not sure how the C team ended but I do know that Jamie Kearney had another delightful looking win which had a piece for 2 pawn sacrifice early on! I hope Phil has the time to post it on this blog if he can !

Bob