29.03.2017

Worthing 1 vs Crowborough 1


27th March 2017
 
    Worthing
    Crowborough
  Grade Player       Player Grade
1 195 Nicholas, Michael D ½ - ½
Anthony, Gareth 196
2 203 Graham, David B 1    - 0    Fryer, David W 170
3 190 Grant, David ½ - ½ McCulloch, Gary 135
4 186 Jones, Chris 1    - 0    Grisenthwaite, Jonathan C 104
5 161 Skinner, Nicholas H 1    - 0    Campion, Caroline 101
      4      1       

With one of the longest journeys in the league we travelled down to Worthing to play a team with an average rating of 187.

Gary was the star of the show holding David Grant to a draw from a QR+5P vs QR+4P ending while Gareth was the first to finish after he found trying a different move order in the opening allowed his opponent to force a repetition of moves.

I came out of the opening ok and held my own in the middlegame with possibly the slightest of edges. However as I transferred into the ending I succumbed to the temptation to simplify and landed up in a bad B+5P vs a good N+5P and had to resign on adjudication after some fairly deep computer analysis.

Caroline also had to conceed on adjudication while Jonathan could not overturn a massive 82 point grading difference.

We now need to win our last two matches to avoid relegation to Division 2.