If any other Captains would like to place a match report, please feel free.
We do have a new website under development and the ultimate idea is that we can post games to the website as well.
My Thanks to Ed and here is his match report:
Match Report 03/10/2017 Div 1 Coventry Chess Academy A v Coventry Chess A
This is our first match report when the new website is up
and running I hope to be able to put interesting positions or whole games in
the article.
We faced the new Academy side who turned out to be strong
outgrading us on 3 out of the 4 boards.
On board 1 Dave Ireland (White) faced Paul Lam against whom
he previously had a 0-4 record. This seemed to me to be fairly uneventful from
I think the 1 e4 Nc6 opening. Dave drew , a very good result.
Bernard played the only junior but a good one in David
Phillips. This was the popular London System, with Bernard seeming to be under
pressure on the king side , however he neutralised this and I thought he had an
advantage afterwards but it proved not enough to win.
Against Alan Phillips
I played an appalling opening after a very early ..Ne4 in the Dutch
defence and had to offer a pawn to develop. Alan thought I would have good
compensation so he declined the offer. Then I set a trap which my opponent fell
into and I won the exchange. But with two rooks and a bishop against rook
knight and bishop just couldn’t find any winning plan. My opponent could have
claimed the draw twice by threefold repetition. Eventually I ran short of time
and offered him a draw which was accepted
Bava played the sharp Sicilian Dragon against Georgeta
Ercsei . White castled queen side and launched an attack against Bava’s king on
the king side. At a critical point Bava blocked the attack by placing his
knight on h5, but Georgetta switched to attacking in the centre and Bava’s
knight was completely cut off. When I looked again he had lost a number of
pawns and was unable to hang on.
Match Result
Dave Ireland (175) ½–½ Paul Lam (196)
Bernard Charnley (154) ½-½ David Phillips (144)
Ed Goodwin (156) ½-½ Alan Phillips (168)
Bava Manickam (134)
0-1 Georgeta Ercsei (151)