Following our theme from yesterday, let us discuss the fortunes of our 4 teams:
Team Sprog
Billy makes his appearance today, scoring 4/6 in the U8 tournament, with 4 wins balanced out by two defeats against the number 1 and 3 seeds (Billy was number 6 himself). David also enters the fray and gets off to a winning start in the U16 event, but a much more challening game awaits tomorrow against the number 1 seed.
Team PAYE
Just two games for this grouping today. Andy started his tournanment with what looked like a very correctly played draw, whilst for the second game in a row I managed to be around +8 at some point in the middlegmae and only come out with a draw. Note to self - try and give mate in good positions since clearly, if it lasts until an endgame, I'm not capable of converting the position. That leaves both Andy and myself on 50% after two rounds, and an all Kenilworth pairing may thus not be too far away.
Team Charlemagne
Roy remains the only member of his team to have competed thus far, with Bernard and Mark both making their bows romorrow. A very convincing win (see below) was followed with a draw, to give Roy a final score of 3.5/5 for his first event. Perfectly decent, but more effort needed if any prizes are to be taken home.
Team Eclectic
Vassily comes out with 3/6 from the same U8 tournament that Billy was playing in, beating all the players graded beneath him and losing to those graded above. If only more of our members could show such mathematically appropriate consistency. David Howell however lets the team down by only managing a draw on the black side of as Samisch King's Indian/Benoni against Richard Palliser. Not to fear though, for Bruce will enter the fray tomorrow to show him how it is done.
Current standings:
Team Sprog: 77% (10/13)
Team PAYE: 50% (1.5/3)
Team Charlemagne: 70% (3.5/5)
Team Eclectic: 42% (5.5/13)
For today's game, it only seems fair to have a look at something impressive Roy produced in his win today. I should emphasise I haven't seen the scoresheet for this game, so it represents my recollection of Paul's recollection of what happened. If it is therefore entirely nonsense and the game was in fact an exchange French, I apologise now.
I think we can all agree black's king is not long for this world.
Team Sprog
Billy makes his appearance today, scoring 4/6 in the U8 tournament, with 4 wins balanced out by two defeats against the number 1 and 3 seeds (Billy was number 6 himself). David also enters the fray and gets off to a winning start in the U16 event, but a much more challening game awaits tomorrow against the number 1 seed.
Team PAYE
Just two games for this grouping today. Andy started his tournanment with what looked like a very correctly played draw, whilst for the second game in a row I managed to be around +8 at some point in the middlegmae and only come out with a draw. Note to self - try and give mate in good positions since clearly, if it lasts until an endgame, I'm not capable of converting the position. That leaves both Andy and myself on 50% after two rounds, and an all Kenilworth pairing may thus not be too far away.
Team Charlemagne
Roy remains the only member of his team to have competed thus far, with Bernard and Mark both making their bows romorrow. A very convincing win (see below) was followed with a draw, to give Roy a final score of 3.5/5 for his first event. Perfectly decent, but more effort needed if any prizes are to be taken home.
Team Eclectic
Vassily comes out with 3/6 from the same U8 tournament that Billy was playing in, beating all the players graded beneath him and losing to those graded above. If only more of our members could show such mathematically appropriate consistency. David Howell however lets the team down by only managing a draw on the black side of as Samisch King's Indian/Benoni against Richard Palliser. Not to fear though, for Bruce will enter the fray tomorrow to show him how it is done.
Current standings:
Team Sprog: 77% (10/13)
Team PAYE: 50% (1.5/3)
Team Charlemagne: 70% (3.5/5)
Team Eclectic: 42% (5.5/13)
For today's game, it only seems fair to have a look at something impressive Roy produced in his win today. I should emphasise I haven't seen the scoresheet for this game, so it represents my recollection of Paul's recollection of what happened. If it is therefore entirely nonsense and the game was in fact an exchange French, I apologise now.
I think we can all agree black's king is not long for this world.
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