Sunday, 16 October 2011

Return to league chess

I played for Maldon A on Friday. Ironically my opponent played the English opening and we reached an almost identical position at move 6 to the game in my previous post except I castled instead of playing Rb8.  I got lucky as unfortunately my opponent left his queenside knight hanging on move 13 and his position disintegrated.  0-1 after 16 moves.

Sunday, 9 October 2011

Lucky draw against Neil McDonald

While sorting through some old boxes today I come across the score book from probably one of the last tournaments I played. Although I haven't analysed this game I suspect my draw against Neil McDonald (at the time 202J now GM) was fortunate.