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Oxfordshire League Match 2010/11
Oxford City 1 vs. Witney 1
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played 6th December 2010
Another tight match against
City 1 in which both teams fielded their best
sides (Witney 1's average grade 196.5, City 1's
198.4) which for a long time we looked like
losing. The less said about my game the better;
I spent a lot of time finding a series of
indifferent moves, then blundered a pawn in a
passive but defensible position. Mark drew soon
after after his opponent managed to defuse a
useful looking initiative. So one down, with Tim
and Dave in trouble with Black and two double
edged games on the top boards. Not looking good!
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Oxford City
1 |
vs. |
Witney 1 |
| 1 |
Rose, Matthew (220) |
0 |
- |
1 |
Wells, Peter (232) |
| 2 |
Manley, Jon P (202) |
0 |
- |
1 |
Richmond, Peter (203) |
| 3 |
Tan, Wei Sin (214) |
1 |
- |
0 |
Truran, Michael (191) |
| 4 |
Brown, Matthew (180) |
1 |
- |
0 |
Headlong, Timothy (188) |
| 5 |
Rajangam, Karlmarx (176) |
½ |
- |
½ |
Hannon, Mark (185) |
| 6 |
Ljubic, Ivan (-) |
½ |
- |
½ |
Hackett, Dave G (180) |
All four remaining games went
down to the last few minutes. Tim shed a pawn
and got ground down in the ending, but Peter R
played excellently to put away Jon Manley in an
exceedingly complex and tactical game. Dave hung
on heroically to draw in an endgame where he had
little time to find a series of excellent
defensive moves, leaving it to Peter W on top
board to beat Matt Rose at the third attempt
(two draws last season) in a game where both
players ran tremendously short of time (not
unusual for these time trouble aficionados).
Matt's ingenious attempt to
pull off a devilish stalemate with around five
seconds left on his clock was thwarted only by
the inconvenient presence of a remaining pawn,
and so the match was saved with less than a
minute to go to the end of the session (Peter's
remaining forty seconds or so being more than
sufficient for a man of his calibre to mop up).
Games in PGN
So a nervy 3:3 draw, leaving
Witney 1 still clear at the top of the division
and with our fate still in our own hands.
- Mike
Witney games
above in PGN |
