A brilliant performance by the Atticus 1 team last night, unfortunately with the top 4 boards unavailable and a number of Atticus 3 reserves also unavailable, 3 players were recruited in the very last moments from the Atticus 4 squad. Thanks to all of them for standing in particularly Howard Sleeman who was only contacted a few hours before the match.  Although Aigburth were also missing some players,the Atticus team were outgraded by an average of 70 points per board.

Natasha May got the team off to a brilliant start with a 15 move miniature, Howard fought well to gain a draw against Sean Kane.

Chris Wentworth sacced a piece for active play and turned down a draw in trying to force the win against Anthony Pimblett. Anthony with fine defensive play was eventually able to turn things around in his favour.

  Derek Rooney continued his fine season with a win against Brendan.  Ben and Nick eventually found themselves in inferior postions against their very experienced opponents.  The match hinged on the last game on Board 1 between James Rothwell and Aigburth captain Steve Lee. As the seconds disappeared Steve had more to think about with his King being more vulnerable in the centre. As the pieces crashed around the board at both ends, James finally came out on top to give Atticus a well earned draw.

Aigburth 1
1736 3.5 : 3.5 Atticus 1 1661
1
Lee, Steven
1990
0-1
Rothwell, James P
1885
2
Pearcey, David F
1825
1-0
Griffin, Nick
1800
3
McNamara, AM (Tony)
1810
1-0
Ellington, Ben
1705
4
Kane, Brendan D
1773
0-1
Rooney, Derek
1698
5
Pimblett, Anthony J
1758
1-0
Wentworth, Chris
1623
6
Kane, Sean
1600
0.5-0.5
Sleeman, Howard D
1525
7
Kavanagh, Luke
1398
0-1
May, Natasha
1390

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