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Happy Xmas to all Chess Players everywhere from Atticus Chess Club

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Written by: sjb

Category: Club News

Published: 21 December 2021

 

 

Carlsen is the old and the new World Chess Champion!

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Written by: Martin Blasczyk

Category: Club News

Published: 10 December 2021

Magnus Carlsen has won the game today and defended his title with 7½ -v- 3½. Was it a good match? I would say, more or less. Nepo made some blunders and "donated" games to Carlsen, or should I say Carsen exploited every weakness of Nepo and his win is well-deserved. You may replay these games and make your own mind:

Carlsen -v- Nepo all games on Lichess

For me this tournament was by far not as interesting and as fascinating as the legendary battles betwen Fischer and Spassky, Karpov and Kortschnoi (alias "Victor the Terrible" or "Old Shatterhand") ,Karpov and Kasparov...
"Tempora mutantur" (Times are changing) and FIDE changed the rules and so on "to make chess more popular"... So be it.

Enjoy the games.

Martin

P.S.: The longest game... reguarding the moves it is game 6 of this tournament (136 moves), but it lasted only 7 hours and 45 minutes. Reguarding the playing time the game David Bronstein -v- Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Hastings, 06/01/1954, 120 moves and took 13 hours. At least one of the longest game in chess history.

Atticus Xmas Party Monday December 20th at Zorba's 7pm

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Written by: sjb

Category: Club News

Published: 07 December 2021

 

The Atticus Xmas Party will be held at Zorba's Greek Restaurant on Monday December 20th at 7pm

Please note you can bring your own bottle of wine and pay a small corkage fee if you wish.

Will all those wishing to attend please contact Steve Kee ASAP     This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   tel 07876317871

 

 

Disappointing Night for Atticus Teams in Division 1 29/11/21

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Written by: sjb

Category: Club News

Published: 30 November 2021

A difficult night for both Atticus Teams. With a number of players falling ill on Sunday and Monday, both teams were just about able to fill their boards. David Odunaiya was very generous in stepping in at the last moment for his first game in almost 3 years. 

Aigburth put out their strongest line-up of the season and were deserving winners on the night. Although strangely enough the result puts Atticus 2 at the Top of the League due to their superior board count. Highlights of the night was a good draw for Steve Kee against Roger Williamson and another victory for Andrej Stancak.

Atticus 1 also had a couple players step in on the day, with both Nathan Haddy and Steve Winstanely getting late calls. The team fought bravely and may easily have won the match as Charlie Kennaugh had the advantage over Mike Stone going onto the Final Moments.

 

29th November 2021 19:30
Atticus 2			1925	2.0 : 5.0	Aigburth 1		1908
1	L	Kee, Steve	2155	0.5 - 0.5	L	Williamson, Roger G	2253
2	L	Stancak, Andrej	2080	1 - 0	L	Lee, Steven	1990
3	L	Boumphrey, Luke S	2118	0 - 1		Eisen, David	1848
4		Odunaiya, A David	2028	0 - 1	L	Pearcey, David F	1825
5	L	Banerjee, Sanjoy K	1728	0 - 1		Pimblett, Anthony J	1758
6		Burge, Steve J	1713	0.5 - 0.5
7		Cannon, Geoff	1650	0 - 1		Kane, Brendan D	1773
board 6 aigburth john woolf

 

29th November 2021 19:30
Atticus 1			1840	3.0 : 4.0	Hoylake 1		1654
1	L	Kennaugh, Charles W	2155	0 - 1		Stone, Mike	2035
2	L	James, David J	2140	1 - 0		Stoddart, Mike	1675
3	L	Rothwell, James P	1885	0.5 - 0.5		Vasiev, Bahkti	1668
4		Rooney, Derek	1698	0.5 - 0.5		Tatar, Radu T	1555
5		Webb, Tom EC	1653	0.5 - 0.5		Carroll, Michael	1540
6		Winstanley, Steve	1510	0 - 1		Threlfall, Jack
7		Haddy, Nathan		0.5 - 0.5		Battersby, Matthew	1450

 

Atticus 2 Survive Epic Encounter 23/11/21

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Written by: sjb

Category: Club News

Published: 24 November 2021

Atticus 2 survived an enthralling encounter v Hoylake tonight. Atticus were without Dave Stuttard, a late withdrawal through illness. Fortunately Geoff Cannon was able to step in on board 7 at short notice.

BOARD 6   Hoylake's Jack Threfall did well to fight back from an inferior position in the opening, he managed to find a nice tactic to equalise the game and might have had the edge going into the end game.

BOARD 3  Luke seemed to be well in control and with a forcing mate attack, somehow his opponent managed  to expose Luke's King forcing an early resignation.

BOARD 5 Sanjoy is in fine form at present and surrounded Mike Carroll's King from early on. Mike could not castle and despite great resistance he eventually lost out.

BOARD 1  Steve seemed be doing well but having turned down Mike's draw offer, his position became inferior. Mike had 2 Rooks and a bishop against Steve's Queen and bishop. MIke eventaully went for a 3 move repetition but may well have overlooked the win under time pressure.

BOARD 2  Another steady game by Andrej giving his opponent little opportunity. Andrej was eventually down to 3 minutes but delivered a fine end game victory.

BOARD 7 Geoff played a very solid game and the postion was very equal but as the clock was running down into the final minutes he made an unfortunate blunder and had to resign.

BOARD 4 This match was the last to finish and the match result depended on it. Early in the game Brian had forced Radu Tatar's King onto the 4th rank but could find no obvious finish, Radu was able to retreat his King back to safety and then launch major threats against Brian's King. In the frantic final moments both players were forgetting to press the clock (on different occasions) adding to the the amazing tension! Brian's extra pawn and fine end game knowledge provided the victory with both players under 60 seconds.