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For a long time I felt we were favourites for this one, John Williams had an early draw following a big exchange of pieces. Tom Bimpson was trying out a new opening, this looked quite a novel line and he looked to be under pressure early on but this proved to be part of the plan and Tom had a quick victory in 23 moves. A lot of the remaining games looked equal but Steve Kee looked to be under pressure from Dom Foord however Andrej looked to be in control in his match. As the matches drew to a conclusion Luke's big time advantage worked in his favour and he converted a very close fought end game. David Odunaiya tried his best to create changes but Mike Hardman held firm. Giorgos had a tough game against Sameen and another draw was agreed. In the end Andrej will be disappointed as he let his advantage slip away and he suffered a very rare defeat. FINAL SCORE 3.5/3.5

Division 1, Round 2, 30th September 2019 19:30
 
Atticus 2		 179 3.5 : 3.5 Liverpool 1 179
1
L
195
0 - 1
L
203
2
L
193
0 - 1
L
190
3
L
173
1 - 0
L
189
4
L
170
1 - 0
L
184
5
L
177
0.5 - 0.5
L
177
6
L
171
0.5 - 0.5
 
161
7
 
177
0.5 - 0.5
 
147

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Category: Atticus 1

MCA Division 1 - 2019/2020
Round 2 (First Leg)
Atticus 1 		177 5.0 : 2.0 Aigburth 1 165
1
Redmond, John P
214
1-0
Williamson, Roger G
208
2
Kennaugh, Charles W
192
0.5-0.5
Lee, Steven
171
3
James, David J
194
1-0
Faulkner, James
165
4
McCarthy, Jim P
170
1-0
Rowlandson, Daniel
163
5
Martin, Nicholas E
166
0.5-0.5
Eisen, David
155
6
Rothwell, James P
160
0.5-0.5
Kane, Brendan D
146
7
Lambert, John F
145
0.5-0.5
McNamara, AM (Tony)
150

Atticus v Aigburth matches are generally well-fought and last night's match was no exception with an exciting finish and interesting games on most boards. On Board 2, Charlie seemed to have full control against Steve Lee and picked up an exchange. However, after Charlie abstained from a Bishop-for-Knight trade, Steve, with his advanced pawn on h3, incarcerated Charlie's king and found a tactic to get the exchange back (or a perpetual.) This tied Charlie up. There was a tense finish in time-pressure and a draw was agreed. On Board 3, there was a double-edged struggle. James Faulkner won a pawn with a 2-rook and opposite-squared Bishop ending. There was dynamic equilibrium, however, and Dave had a more active King. It was probably still level when Dave started rolling a central pawn and managed to trap James's bishop. Exemplary technique saw Dave pick up the full point. On Board 4 Jim faced Daniel Rowlandson who has steadily improved over the last 2 years into a strong player. However in this game Jim got a marginal advantage and had an extra pawn (albeit doubled) as pieces were swapped to a Rook ending where Jim's active king was able to support a passed pawn. This forced the win - another fine controlled game by Jim. On Board 5  Dave played a gentle version of the London system against Nick and when all bishops were swapped in an almost symmetrical position an early draw was agreed. In a French on Board 6 James got pressure on the a-file and also in the centre leading to the win of an exchange. However James's Queen then became stuck on d6 with Brendan Kane controlling many squares with his pieces. So James sensibly agreed the draw as he ran short of time. Board 7 featured a really exciting game. In a Slav John got superior central pawns versus Tony's passed a-pawn. John won a pawn but Tonys' a-pawn reached a6 when all three results were still possible. With both players having less than 3 minutes John picked up a rook when Tony tried to attack. However Tony continued to defend well while John was in his last minute. A draw was honorably agreed with John having 6 seconds left. A real nail-biter which was a credit to both players. On Board 1 John Redmond pulled off a dire swindle in time-pressure when Roger, having controlled the game and built up a winning position, ran his King up the board and fell into a one-move mate.

Therefore Atticus 1 secured a 5-2 victory which looked quite improbable with 20 minutes to go. Credit to Aigburth for being tough and very sporting opponents. Waterloo in 2 weeks time is likely to be an equally tough match.

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Category: Atticus 3

MCA Division 2 - 2019/2020
Round 2 (First Leg)
Liverpool 2 		141 3.5 : 2.5 Atticus 3 131
1
Mana, Sameen
161
0.5-0.5
Lambert, John F
145
2
Hawkins, James N
154
1-0
Ellington, Ben
131
3
Clarke, Michael
154
0.5-0.5
Blasczyk, Martin
132
4
Leeming, Dave W
142
0-1
Banerjee, Sanjoy K
129
5
Mellor, Peter
115
1-0
Wentworth, Chris
128
6
Robinson, Sean
117
0.5-0.5
Burge, Steve J
121

As this was our first match of the season, I would like to thank Jim for his excellent leadership of this team over a number of seasons.  I am sure Atticus 4 will have a successful season under tenure.

The cross city rivalry with the excellent Liverpool Chess Club was a good test of where we are right now.  Even without two of their listed player, they were able to field a foreboding line-up, but I have quiet confidence in this team.

John Lambert was first to finish, achieving a fighting draw on top board.  My game was concluded shortly after as misadventure got the better of the usually very solid Dave Leeming.  Martin then added to our tally, doing very well to save a rook and pawn endgame with 3 v 3 on the kingside and a passed a-pawn, but with the rook in front instead of behind.

At that stage, we looked on course for a famous win, but then the tide began to turn.  Chris king succumbed to heavy crossfire, and Steve found himself short of time and unable to convert a promising position.  And finally, Ben came up short against Nick Hawkins in an evenly fought KID.

So we came up a tantalising half a point short, yet I was proud of the team for what was in truth a fighting and credible debut.

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Category: Atticus 4

MCA Division 3 - 2019/2020
Round 2 (First Leg)
Atticus 4 		117 2.0 : 4.0 Wallasey B 118
1
Williams, Michael I
131
0.5-0.5
Jones, Ken D
133
2
Wadsworth, Mark S
125
1-0
Purcell, Rick
123
3
Wiseman, Jim K
122
0-1
Wiggett, Brian
128
4
Webb, Tom EC
121
0.5-0.5
Carr, Graham
117
5
Winstanley, Steve
110
0-1
Champion, Ron J
97
6
May, Natasha
90
0-1
Kelly, Alan
108

We were not at our best tonight despit good performances from Mark Wadsworth, Mike Williams and Tom Webb. Natasha, too, had an exciting game which could have gone either way. Howeve, I under-performed and my opponent was quick to capitalise on my errors. Steve. too, thought he should ave done better. All the same, full credit to Wallasey B who did what they needed to and we just have to accept that on the night we were seond best.

Jim Wiseman (Atticus 4 Captain)

 

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Category: Knotty-Ash-Cup

 

Knotty Ash Cup- report Tom Webb  

16th September 2019Round 1 

Atticus V Wallasey 

Board

 

Atticus KAC

Name 

Score 

Wallasey KAC

Name 

Score 

 

1 

Chris Wentworth   [128] 

1/2 

Leon Wolszczak         [126] 

½ 

2 

Sanjoy Banerjee     [129] 

1 

Colin Rees                   [122] 

0 

3 

Jim Wiseman          [122] 

1 

Alan Kelly                    [108] 

0 

4 

Tom Webb              [121] 

1 

Duncan Rennie          [103] 

0 

5 

Steve Burge            [121] 

1 

Ron Champion           [98] 

0 

 

Total 

4.1/2

Total 

0.1/2 

 

Wallasey were heavily out graded on most boards. That said Wallasey put up stiff resistance and in more than one case had the opportunity to gain a strong advantage in their game. However, the result was a fair reflection of some very strong play by the Atticus players who dominated for most of their respective games. 

Commiserations to Wallasey, the next round is not until early December.

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Category: Atticus 4

MERSEYSIDE CHESS LEAGUE DIVISION 3

Game 1 of 12

Tuesday 10th September 2019

FORMBY 2 v ATTICUS 4

 

MCA Division 3 - 2019/2020
Round 1 (First Leg)
Formby 2 		123 2.5 : 3.5 Atticus 4 115
1
Jordan, Paul
134
0.5-0.5
Wadsworth, Mark S
125
2
Barrett, Mike D
132
0.5-0.5
Wiseman, Jim K
122
3
Grady, John J
120
0-1
Webb, Tom EC
121
4
Owens, Robert
121
1-0
Sleeman, Howard D
114
5
McKee, David
114
0-1
Winstanley, Steve
110
6
Worthington, Alan S
116
0.5-0.5
Hurley, Dave
100

Our opening match of the season went well with a solid performance from everyone and two excellent games by Tom Webb and Steve Winstanley.

Formby as always were very competitive and the result went down to the wire. It was finally decided in our favour when Tom Webb’s long-term pressure against John Grady was turned into material advantage and the game.

Our next match is at home on 23rd September against Wallasey B.

Jim Wiseman

(Captain)

  1. Atticus 1 v Atticus 2 - 9/9/19
  2. Atticus 2 come out on top in the big Derby 9/9/19
  3. Good start to the Season in 600 League 4/9/19
  4. New Season Begins September 2nd
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