Nottinghamshire chess league continued by another round which brought together Grantham-2 and Nottingham Central-1 (formerly Navigation).Before the match the league cross-table looked like that:
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | Dif | Pn | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newark-1 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 19 | 12 | 0 | 15 |
| 2 | Long Eaton | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 27.5 | 17.5 | 10 | 0 | 12 |
| 3 | Nottingham Central-1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 4 | Grantham-2 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 24 | -3 | 0 | 10 |
| 5 | Gambit-2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 6 | Radcliffe &Bingham-1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 19.5 | 25.5 | -6 | 0 | 7 |
| 7 | West Bridgford-2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 17.5 | 22.5 | -5 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | University-2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 | 31.5 | -19 | -4 | -2 |
On the top board we witnessed very likely one of the shortest games played in the league this season if not ever.
John Harrison, playing with White pieces, in the Chebanenko line of Slav Defence he committed himself to move 5.c5 followed by 5...Nbd7 and 6.Bf4. Black, having fianchettoed his dark-squared Bishop, started biting White's pawn structure on the queen-side by b6 and a5. John, playing 11.bxa5, made a positional mistake which, followed by 11...bxc5, led to the worse but definitely playable position for White. Alas, the psychological impact of that mistake was tremendous and John, terribly frustrated, decided to throw in the towel.
Harrison, John
A. - David, Ivan
D15: Chebanenko Slav
1.d4
d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 a6 5.c5 Nbd7 6.Bf4 g6 7.h3 Bg7 8.e3 0-0 9.Be2 b6
10.b4 a5 11.bxa5?N bxc5
0-1
It was a debut for Andrew Hebert, a new Grantham player, who played with White pieces on the board 2. And his "opening night" was successful when he grabbed the full point for Grantham team. Well done Andy and carry on!
Another full point for Grantham gained Chris Holt playing this time on for him quite uncharacteristic board 5.
Last point for Grantham team gained Trevor Palmer and Ben Mason who both drew.
Grantham-2
|
4:1
|
Nottingham
Central-1
|
||
David
I
|
172
|
1:0
|
Harrison
J A
|
177
|
Hebert
A
|
-
|
1:0
|
Griffith
A R
|
160
|
Palmer
T
|
147
|
½:½
|
Foster S
|
153
|
Mason
B
|
149
|
½:½
|
Radford M
|
134
|
Holt
C
|
146
|
1:0
|
Forster G | 125 |
And here is the League cross-table after latest round:
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | Dif | Pn | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newark-1 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 19 | 12 | 0 | 15 |
| 2 | Long Eaton | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 27.5 | 17.5 | 10 | 0 | 12 |
| 3 | Grantham-2 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| 4 | Nottingham Central-1 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 26 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| 5 | Gambit-2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 6 | Radcliffe &Bingham-1 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 19.5 | 25.5 | -6 | 0 | 7 |
| 7 | West Bridgford-2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 17.5 | 22.5 | -5 | 0 | 6 |
| 8 | University-2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 12.5 | 31.5 | -19 | -4 | -2 |
I think that Nottinghamshire Cheese League competition is very stiff. I know that many people are interested to know about the result of the competition. I think that they really did their best on the cheese competition.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for you comment. Just to make the matters clear:
ReplyDeleteChess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.
Cheese, on the other hand, is a generic term for a diverse group of milk-based food products.
Cheese consists of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, goats, or sheep. It is produced by coagulation of the milk protein casein. Typically, the milk is acidified and addition of the enzyme rennet causes coagulation. The solids are separated and pressed into final form.
To cut the long story short we can use a definition proposed by divine John Clees: "A fermented curd..."
The league mentioned above is about the board game.