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. 

23rd November 2021 19:30
16953.0 : 4.0Atticus 21896
1
 
2035
0.5 - 0.5
L
2155
2
 
1675
0 - 1
L
2080
3
 
1668
1 - 0
L
2118
4
 
1555
0 - 1
L
1825
5
 
1540
0 - 1
L
1728
6
   
0.5 - 0.5
 
1713
7
   
1 - 0
 
1650

 

 

 

 

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