Week 2 Roberts Isted

Andrew Fifield was on fire in Round 2.

Lindsay Atkinson Round 2! White won all games!! Despite giving up a piece early, Andrew regrouped and went on to win against his highly rated opponent and caused the biggest upset of the new tournament. Peter blames too much 5 minute chess for his poor play!
Welcome to new junior player Liam who played his first competition game against Gemma in the Reserves (0-1). Mitchell surprised with a win over Anthony.

In A Grade, Carey banked that Russell would play d4 and he was prepared with a few lines but chose different to his intention. White had comfortable play and black suffered poor development and restricted play. A Police interruption caused Carey to lose concentration and drop a piece and the game.
Neville prepared the Najdorf against Vincent who quickly seized the initiative and a few pawns followed before Neville resigned.
Dylan was on a high after beating Dragan last week, but the chess gods weren’t with him and Nigel scored a comfortable win.
David and Reg played an interesting game. David looked to have a badly blocked bishop and Reg looked to have counter play on the kingside. When I next looked back David has a might pawn on 7th rank and Reg had lost material and any semblance of attack (1-0).
Dragan and Fred have withdrawn.
Next week: Neville vs David; Carey vs Vincent; Dylan vs Russell; Reg vs Andrew; Peter vs Kevin; byes Nigel, Alastair, Charlie.
Reserves: determined on the night – all players attend.

Rapid on Saturday at Ulverstone Primary School enter by 10:45.

Robert Isted gets underway

The first round got underway on Wednesday 15 July but with several players absent games from different rounds were played.
First Grade
Kevin featured in a surprsing upset over Reg in an end game. Reg's technique is highly regarded but Kevin's advanced pawns created the edge he needed.
Dylan has come close to beating Dragan on several occassions and this time he outplayed Dragan in an end game to score the point. Carey was a piece up but with only 40 seconds left, Nigel made him work hard for the point. Andrew gratefully accepted the piece from Fred in the opening and Fred said goodnight. Neville had an edge over myslef in the opening, with the opportunity for a kingside assault, however play on the Q-side saw my black pieces better, before Neville miscalculated. At this stage current club champion Alastair Dyer hasn't been confirmed as a starter. Charlie, Vincent and Phil were absent.
Tenative draw for next week is
Kevin vs Andrew, Dragan vs Charlie, Nigle vs Dylan, Russell vs Carey, Vincent vs Neville, David vs Reg, Alastair vs Fred.
Reserves
This will be a double round robin. Grazyna, Gemma, Mitchell, Cohen, Anthony and Ashton are starters - new players welcome. Cohen defeated Gemma and Anthony won over Ashton. Next week's games will be Mitchell vs Anthony, Ashton vs Cohen , Gemma bye.
Coaching
Each week a club member will conduct a brief discussion or demonstration from 6:45-7:00pm to provide insight and coaching to fellow members.