28.04.2017
Brighton & Hove 1 vs Crowborough 1
MSCL Div 1 on 27th April 2017
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Brighton & Hove 1
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Crowborough 1
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| Grade |
Player |
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Player |
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| 194 |
Wilks, Simon
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½ |
- |
½ |
Kemp, Peter |
198
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| 188 |
Henshaw, John
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½
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- |
½ |
Anthony, Gareth |
196
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| 186 |
Brewer, Callum
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½ |
- |
½ |
Ahluwalia, Amardip |
182
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| 176 |
Batchelor, Paul A
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½
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½
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Elliston, Robert V |
178
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| 165 |
Rogacewicz, Mikolaj
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½
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½ |
Fryer, David W |
170
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2½
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2½ |
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With a crucial match to travel to the last thing we needed was roadworks at Lewes to delay my and Roberts arrival. Fortunately we were only 5 minutes down on the clock at the start.
Two evenly matched teams battled away for two hours before draws were agreed on boards 2 and 4.
So with Crowborough having three white games left playing, it looked as if Brighton's championship hopes were slipping. Amardip was the first to get an upper hand and looked to my eye as if victory was imminent however after some stout defence from Callum and a small slip from Amardip the game reached 42 moves with Q+4P vs Q+4P with Amardip having a passed but blockaded d pawn.
My game emerged from some middlegame complications into a minor piece endgame. At this point, move 29, I offered my opponent a draw which he declined. As is often the case after declining the draw he shortly afterwards made a slip allowing me to pin his knight and ultimately to win a pawn.
Peter's game ended in a position which still looked even being a rook and minor piece ending but once we reached adjudication I was informed by Peter that he was worse.
So the dreaded & antiquated adjudication post mortem commenced and went on and on. The option was to leave all three games to the adjudicators and possible appeals or to try and agree the results.
The first to resolve itself with chess apps everywhere buzzing away was Amardip's where it was generally thought that the passed pawn could be stopped though Amardip did have a small edge.
Peter then found a resource in his game that allowed a loss of a pawn but possibly held the position.
My game was considered close to victory but the problem was that I only had 3 pawns left and with 3 minor pieces each it wasn't clear how I could actually win it.
With time marching on towards the witching hour and being in danger of spending more time on the adjudications than it would have taken to finish the games over the board a general consensus was reached and all players agreed a draw.
With a draw giving Brighton the Championship title and us 1st Division survival this was always going to be a possible result.
Congratulations to Brighton and sorry Horsham but we really tried.
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