Ealing A 4 - Kingston A 3
: Created:02 Feb 2010 , byFollowing our loss back in September 09, Ealing were aching for revenge against Kingston in the return home match but unless a miracle comparable with the Biblical fishes and the loaves intervenes, the match is going to be drawn.
It was such a good start when our captain, Simon Randall ruthlessly punished early castling by his opponent with a classic Bxh7 check, Ng5 check combination. Inevitably the White queen arrived at h5 and all that remained was for Simon to ignore the win of his foe's queen in favour of checkmate. However on board seven Martin Smith was having trouble with long-time Kingston v Ealing adversary, Chris Clegg. Martin showed a lot of class to draw the resultant bishop and six pawns versus bishop and five pawns ending, the bishops being of the same colour.
In my own game the 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 opening was played with sophistication by my antagonist and his space advantage was troublesome. Certainly I ran a little short of time finding the right counter-measures so a draw was a fair result. Adrian Ociepka has been in fantastic form this season and yet again he created an attacking position from the Ruy Lopez Opening. Great opportunism! Ealing 3 Kingston 1.
Board one was a heavy-weight encounter with the players following one of the main lines of the King's Indian Defence. John Quinn lost a pawn but defended grittily until his opponent uncorked a very nice combination that terminated his resistance. Alan Perkins achieved a small advantage based on a better pawn formation and superior positions for his knight and rook but it came to nothing and a draw was agreed.
Sainbayar Tserendorj resisted well against a kingside attack but after the first time control he became impatient and continued to make committal moves when he could have sealed a move and taken a quiet look at the game at home. I agree that this is a somewhat unattractive ploy but when there is no quickplay finish it pays off more often than not. The players took a look at the position at the end of the session and shook hands on a draw. Veljko Stanisic managed to acquire a piece although his opponent had a nasty passed pawn on h6. Unfortunately Veljko blundered back the piece and the adjourned position looks beyond redemption so it looks like an honourable draw in the match and an end to Veljko's marvellous unbeaten run of results this season.Â