Clough Round 1 (Board 4)

2009 BDCA Individual Swiss - Bak Round 1

Okay, I was ill.

Tim James vs Me : Bingley Reserves

Rating Watch

Until the offical ratings are out, here's my tally

Opponent	W/D/L	Rating	Adjustment
1. Matt White	W	60	110
2. Robert Fletcher	L	NR	50
3. T Honore	L	71	21
4. Tim James	W	61	111
5. Dean Greenhough	W	70	120
Total		412	82.4

Chess Openings Mindmap

Updated to expand the Sicilian a lot more

Idle Reserve Game 2 : 2nd Rated Match

This time at Idle Working Men's club

Opening

B33: Sicilian, Pelikan (Lasker/Sveshnikov) variation
This was an almost textbook opening, giving me an advantage, unfortunatly I chose not to take dxe8 on move 9, this would've given me a decisive advantage.

Mid-game

I was a bit on the back foot, I gave away my rook to discover-check and take the queen but it didn't work entirely as planned.

End-game

I believe I made a mistake on move 32, not taking the bishop at b7, crafty suggested that taking e6 with the rook would've worked (protected by the knight)

It was a lot harder game than last week.
I could've done better here, according to crafty I could've gotten a draw out of it.

Idle Reserve Game : First Rated Match

On Tuesday I went down to the Bingley, Andy Wainwright arranged for me to take part in a friendly with the Idle Reserves.

Opening

C41 - Philidor's defense

According to chess databases, my 3rd move (Nc3) was weaker (39.5% chance of winning) than the more played alternatives d4 or Bc4 (both at 48.7%).

Advantage

Black's move 12 was big mistake, allowing a checked fork, and gave me the advantage

Ending

On move 35 I missed checkmate by a move
Rather than take the rook with the rook, all i needed to do was move the queen to h7 (which was protected by the knight)