New ECF Grading List Jan 2013 (27th Jan) available now!

As usually, new ECF Grading list was issued in the end of January and every graded player can find his/her grading on the ECF Grading database website.
Grantham players can check their gradings below.

Ref	Name	Sex	Age	Club(s)	Category	Standard	Previous	Category	Rapid	Previous
106493K	Beckett, Phill J	M		Worksop	E	148	149
106801F	Birtwistle, Nigel	M		4NCL Pandora's Box	A	184	178
222105G	Coates, David H	M		Lincoln	A	185	183	D	175	175
222184G	Cumbers, Christopher	M		Grantham	C	106	105
103734B	Cumbers, Paul	M		Sheffield Nomads	A	189	196
277281E	David, Ivan	M		Grantham	A	161	167
109683H	Dilley, Jason M	M		4NCL Pandora's Box	E	184	183
175238J	Dorrington, Chris J	M		4NCL Barbican	D	225	227	E	217
281541C	Grummitt, Will	M		Lincolnshire Juniors	D	104	107
180995H	Hebert, R Andrew	M		Grantham	E	161
112912A	Holt, Chris M	M		Grantham	D	147	148
280840H	Mangione, Claudio	M		Grantham	A	199	193
139887J	Mason, Ben	M		Grantham	B	138	145
244268B	McCarthy, Kevin C	M		4NCL Pandora's Box	D	166	167
233344C	Palmer, Trevor	M		Grantham	C	150	149
152255D	Payne, Nick	M		Grantham	C	180	181
263507A	Prior, Stephen CV	M		Lincolnshire CA	X	186	186
284558B	Scarborough, Joe	M	17	Lincolnshire Juniors	D	85	92	C	83	73
152036C	Sherlock, Peter G	M		Lincoln	C	130	130
127081D	Wollerton, Grenville	M		Newark & Southwell	C	135	136

Grantham-2 lost to Ashfield-2

Grantham-2 lost to Ashfield-2 last Wednesday in the the tight match 2-3.
Ambitious team of Ashfield played very well and quickly gained two point margin by victories on the board 2 and 5.
The game on the top board was a little drama when I was defending whole time slightly worse position, then despite of running out of time I achieved very good position with piece up, however, short of time I did not find another way how to continue then to return material back. In difficult ending I finally made a mistake and lost the game. 



Ben Mason and Trevor Palmer won their games on the board 3 and 4.

Grantham 2		2:3	Ashfield 2
David I	167	0:1	G Gibson	161
Hebert A	-	0:1	Herrington J	144
Palmer T	149	1:0	Morgan P	145
Mason B	145	1:0	R. Taylor	136
Scarborough J	92	0:1	A Robinson	143

Trevor Palmer played very nicely and it is my pleasure to publish his game with his own commentaries.