"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you." - Arnold Palmer

Thursday 8 December 2011

Long Eaton pulverised Grantham 2

Long Eaton was relegated from Division 1 last year. This ambitious team is very strong and wants back to Division 1. So far they are leaders of the Division 2 and yesterday came to Grantham who was on the second place of the leaderboard. Grantham team was outgraded on most of boards and lost 0.5 : 4.5.


Grantham-2
½:4½
Long Eaton
David I
165
0:1
Evans R
200
Palmer T
153
0:1
Robins A
158
Mason B
145
0:1
Williams D
157
Holt C
145
½:½
Davies N
143
Cumbers C
105
0:1
Murphy R
131



On the top board, Raymond Evans, rated 200 ECF, playing with White pieces crushed me in Smyslov-Petrosian line of Caro-Kann. We have followed the theory and at move 13 I deviated from theory by rather passive move which gave to my opponent small but long term edge and finally I made positional mistake leading to the catastrophe.
Trevor Palmer on the second board played very and when both players reached the time control he had very promising position. He had at least chance to draw by repetition if had wanted to. He decided to continue his attack, in some point he had achieved a won position but in time trouble he did not find the best line and after he had made mistake enabled his opponent, Andrew Robins, massive mating attack on the king-side.
Ben Mason playing with Black pieces was overplayed with David Williams in Knight and Pawns ending.
Chris Cumbers lost to Ross Murphy and the only person who were able to resist and saved for Grantham half a point at least was Chris Holt playing with White pieces against Norman Davies.

Just to give you flavour of match, let's have a look at the game Palmer-Robins. Trevor kindly annotated the game and I added some lines and remarks as well.







Interesting game wasn't it?


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