Ealing B 4 - Ealing C 2
: Created:16 Oct 2008 , by Alastair JohnstoneEaling's B team narrowly beat Ealing C in opening match of Thames Valley season.
Ealing B | Ealing C | |||||
Bd. | Name | Grade | Result | Name | Grade | |
1 | Greenshields, Chris | 149 | 1 | 0 | Ellis, James | 112 |
2 | Shalabayev, Syrym | 148 | 1 | 0 | Jhooti, Jin | 115 |
3 | Sanchez, Miguel | 140 | 0 | 1 | Grewal, Harvey | 112 |
4 | Harvey, John T | 126 | 1 | 0 | Richards, Geoff | 77 |
5 | Healeas, Simon | 125 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Ball, Jerry | 84 |
6 | Johnstone, Alastair | 122 | 0.5 | 0.5 | Sachdev, Amardeep | 75 |
| Avg | 135 | Avg | 96 | |||
| Match Result: | 4 | 2 | ||||
Despite conceding an average of forty grading points per board, Ealing C put up stern resistance before finally yielding to the Ealing's B team.
Chris Greenshields and John Harvey managed to win their games early in the piece, but battle continued on the remaining boards late into the evening.
Board 2 featured a cracking game. Syrym seems to have taken on Nelson's motto and applied it too chess: 'Don't worry about manouevres, always go right at them.' As Jin Jhooti plays in a similar way, this game was soon full of unfathomable tactical complications and, although material down, Jin had a very threatening advanced pawn. When the smoke of battle finally cleared, Syrym was left with runaway pawns of his own, which decided matters.
In marked contrast to this blood and thunder, Board 3 progressed at a more leisurely pace, Miguel and Harvey being aficianados of a different form of the game. Being preoccupied with my own challenges, I didn't see the denouement, but Harvey emerged triumphant. A great win for Harvey who is starting to reproduce his form of old.
On Board 5, Jerry Ball and Simon Healeas plunged into some deep theoretical waters with the Nadjorf English Attack. I suspect Simon had the edge after the initial encounters, but Jerry showed great resolve and nerve to hold things together for an eventul draw.
Finally, on bottom board, it was downhill all the way for yours truly. After securing and then squandering an advantage in the middlegame, I overpressed in a drawn endgame in search of a win. I then came close to losing, before being saved by a technically drawn opposite-coloured bishop ending two pawns down! Amars played a fine game, nimbly side-stepping the early threats and then turning the tables through a series of accurate moves.
So, 4-2 in the end, but on this showing, both teams should prosper this season.