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All ages enjoy rapidplay at Witney Chess Club
10:41am Tuesday
18th October 2011
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All ages enjoy
rapidplay at Witney Chess Club |
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(centre):
Marianne Hauer of Witney CC. |
Experienced players joined the fun at Witney
Chess Club’s annual rapidplay tournament last
week.
For the first time, the event, at The King’s
School, pictured, featured an adults section
alongside the junior event, attracting 20
people.
The juniors section was also well supported,
with 35 boys and girls taking part.
Mark Hannon won the adults section, with
Geoff Rasell in second place and Maria Mate
third.
Liam McKnight won the juniors section, with
Zoe Varney and Matyas Hanisch sharing second
place.
Chloe D’Souza-Eva and Benjamin Headlong won
the under 11 and under-nine trophies
respectively.
Susana Bennett-Anton won the controller’s
award and Zoe Varney and Matyas Hanisch received
free places in the forthcoming Richard Palliser
simultaneous display, donated by the Oxford
University Chess Club.
The English Chess Federation’s chief
executive officer Andrew Farthing presented the
prizes, and also presented the club with a
commemorative set and board in recognition of it
winning the federation’s website of the year
award.
Witney Chess Club meets every Monday evening
at Ducklington Village Hall.
For details, call Mike Truran on 01993
708645.
Source:
http://bit.ly/p0fY6K
All ages enjoy rapidplay at Witney Chess Club
Archive - Tuesday,
18 October 2011
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All ages enjoy
rapidplay at Witney Chess Club |
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(centre):
Marianne Hauer of Witney CC. |
Experienced players joined the fun at Witney
Chess Club’s annual rapidplay tournament last
week.
All ages enjoy rapidplay at Witney Chess Club
All ages enjoy rapidplay at Witney Chess Club
For the first time, the event, at The King’s
School, pictured, featured an adults section
alongside the junior event, attracting 20
people.
The juniors section was also well supported,
with 35 boys and girls taking part.
Mark Hannon won the adults section, with
Geoff Rasell in second place and Maria Mate
third.
Liam McKnight won the juniors section, with
Zoe Varney and Matyas Hanisch sharing second
place.
Chloe D’Souza-Eva and Benjamin Headlong won
the under 11 and under-nine trophies
respectively.
Susana Bennett-Anton won the controller’s
award and Zoe Varney and Matyas Hanisch received
free places in the forthcoming Richard Palliser
simultaneous display, donated by the Oxford
University Chess Club.
The English Chess Federation’s chief
executive officer Andrew Farthing presented the
prizes, and also presented the club with a
commemorative set and board in recognition of it
winning the federation’s website of the year
award.
Witney Chess Club meets every Monday evening
at Ducklington Village Hall.
For details, call Mike Truran on 01993
708645.
Source:
http://bit.ly/nRFmdQ
Witney reborn as top club
3:21pm Monday 9th
May 2011
By defeating Cowley 1 on April 4, Witney 1
secured enough points to finish ahead of City 1
and secure their first division 1 title for ten
years.
The club — seemingly in the doldrums in
recent times - has been reborn thanks largely to
the energy and enthusiasm of first team captain
Mike Truran.
As well as success on the board, Witney also
set an example by organising other chess-related
activities — such as the recent opening
preparation lecture by grandmaster Peter Wells.
Furthermore, Witney 3 topped their division -
so congratulations to Mike and all those at the
club. Key to the first team’s success this
season has been Mark Hannon.
Playing on board 4 or 5, his splendid 12 out
of 13 in the league is sure to gain him the
first division top scorer award.
The following game - played in January - is
rather one sided; but well demonstrates the
ability to punish inaccuracies that has made
Mark such a feared opponent.
Dave Robson (Cowley 1) -
Mark Hannon (Witney 1)
Oxfordshire League, Division 1
Scotch Game
1.e4 e5 2.d4!? exd4 3.c3 Robson
chooses the Danish gambit - recommended by Nigel
Davies.
3...c5!? The usual way to decline the
gambit is Capablanca’s 3...d5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.cxd4
Nc6 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Nc3 Bb4 8.Be2 Bxf3! 9.Bxf3 Qc4
when Black has few worries. Mark’s choice is
rare and at least has the merit of requiring
Dave to think for himself.
4.cxd4 cxd4 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.Nxd4 We now
have a Scotch - but without the c-pawns - or
perhaps a Sicilian minus a pawn each! Black’s
structure looks less attractive than in the
Scotch proper. On the other hand, as in the
Sicilian, Black’s Queen has access to the
queenside.
6...Nf6 7.Nc3 Bb4 8.Qd3!? Probably
better was 8.Nxc6 bxc6 9.Bd3 d5 when White could
take advantage of the absence of his c-pawn with
10.Qa4.
8...d5!? 8...Qe7 9.f3 d5 would have been even
stronger.
9.exd5 Qxd5 10.Nxc6 Qxc6 11.Bd2? White
should be thinking about equalising and 11.Qb5
Bxc3+ 12.bxc3 Bd7 13.Qxc6 Bxc6 14.f3 would have
been a good way to do it.
11...0–0 12.Qc4?! White should
probably have castled; but after 12.0–0–0 Be6
Black is still having all the fun.
12...Re8+ 13.Be3 Nd5! 14.Qxc6 bxc6
15.Kd2?! Dave has succeeded in swapping
queens but his king is still under fire. It’s
relatively best to play 15.0–0–0 - gifting Black
a pawn - but escaping the coming onslaught.
15...Bf5 16.Rc1 Unfortunately for
White, 16.Bd3 Nxe3 17.fxe3 Rad8 just loses a
piece Similarly, after; 16.Bc4 Nxe3 17.fxe3
Rad8+ 18.Ke2 Bg4+ 19.Kf2 Rd2+ 20.Kg3 h5 White is
unlikely to survive.
16...Rad8 17.Ke2 Bg4+ 18.Ke1 18.f3 is
no better since 18...Nxe3! (18...Rxe3+ also wins
of course.) 19.fxg4 Nxg4+ 20.Kf3 Re3+! leads to
mate.
18...Nxc3 0–1 White resigned since
19.bxc3 Bxc3+ 20.Rxc3 Rd1 is mate.
The original OT article is
here at the bottom of which there are
additional links to chess stories about Witney
CC and OCA.
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