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Dragan and Fred have withdrawn.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.
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I felt quite comfortable the whole game against Reg. He played his withdrawn Knight version of the Alekhine defense (as Black) and felt after the game that the novelty had worn off. I focussed on the weakness of his f6 square during the game, and his inability to strengthen this square was his ultimate undoing.
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