1st Worthing Juniors vs. Seniors Match - 14th June 2010
Well, it's back to the drawing board for the oldies – Dave Chilvers lost even more of his hair and watched his team go down by a single point to Cassie Graham’s juniors.
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A really enjoyable evening kicked-off with Cassie winning the toss and taking White on the odd boards – a decision not greeted favourably by her youngest team member Joseph Allin, making his debut at the club, who announced ‘But I prefer being Black!’
With just 45 mins each for all moves, the oldies knew they would be under pressure against their quick-fire opponents and the early exchanges favoured the youngsters. With about 20 mins remaining, the juniors reached the winning score of 4.5:
- Sam, also making his debut at the club, picked up a piece early on and managed to beat off a fierce counter-attack to win
- Joseph played an excellent attacking game which his trainers (Dave G and Chris) were proud of
- Will grabbed a pawn early on from Dave Wallis and hung-on through complications
- Ben played a great late middle and endgame
- Arthur played a super-solid game against the super-solid Kevin Walsh and a draw was always on the cards (I believe the bookies stopped taking bets on this game being a draw as soon as the pairing was announced)
Stung into action by these set backs, the remaining oldies played brilliantly to win late in the session – congratulations to Dave Chilvers, Don Banks and Robin Trinkwon who rolled back the years with some fine tactical and positional play.
A really big thank you the all the club seniors who have made the juniors so welcome over the season, it is much appreciated.
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Dave Chilvers |
1 |
0 |
Matt Payne |
2 |
Don Banks |
1 |
0 |
Morgan Blake |
3 |
Kevin Walsh |
0.5 |
0.5 |
Arthur Graham |
4 |
Dave Wallis |
0 |
1 |
William Graham |
5 |
Dave Bennett |
0 |
1 |
Ben Simpson |
6 |
Robin Trinkwon |
1 |
0 |
Cassie Graham |
7 |
Dave Bradley |
0 |
1 |
Joseph Allin |
8 |
Ken Hawarth |
0 |
1 |
Sam Lennard |
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Total |
3.5 |
4.5 |
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Just the Bernard Bruno memorial tournament left now on the 26th June before the Summer break. The season then re-opens with the AGM on Sept 6th followed by the Chairman vs. Secretary curtain-raiser the week after.
Dave Graham