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Friday, 10 December 2010
Fuller Sidcup v Petts Wood
Hi all,
We played our second match of the season in the Fuller league last night and again came away with an excellent draw against the much higher graded team of Petts Wood :-
Jack (as black) played really well to have a draw against a much higher graded player for his first game of the season. In a very tight game (where white for most of it had a slight advantage) Jack held onto his position and in the end a draw was agreed on move 22 in a very even position. Even the latest version of Fritz cannot decide who has the better position. In the next post is the game analysed by Fritz from blacks point of view in the game.
Ken Thompson
Intro Cup First Match of Season
The Intro Cup team finally played a match after weather forced the cancellation of the first match and the result was a 3-1 win over Lewisham with Ken Grist, Peter Houching and Phil Broughton all winning. So Peter's first match as captain was successful and the club are still undefeated in all leagues this season, having won the first two Harvey Cup matches against Beckenham and Lewisham and drawn the first two Tom Fuller Cup matches against Petts Wood and Lewisham.
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Fuller - Sidcup v Lewisham Match Report
Sidcup 2 v Lewisham 7
Result 2 - 2 Draw
Not a bad result for the start of the season. Lewisham won their first match of the season, 3-1 against Petts Wood. It will be a tough return match against them.
The results were as follows Sidcup‘s team is in the first column. The figures in the first and last columns are the players gradings:-
| 107 | Dennis Halton | 0 |
| 1 | John Allen | 155 |
| 101 | Keith Thompson | 1 |
| 0 | Cerden Mincher | 122 |
| 98 | Ken Grist | 0 |
| 1 | Lomy Mincer | 87 |
| 90 | Leon Hopkins | 1 |
| 0 | Tom Allen | 60 |
The evening started well with Keith, who played well to beat Cerden in 20 moves.
Our new player Leon then beat a young and up and coming Tom Allen, so giving us at least a half point.
Both Ken and Dennis took there opponents to the end game and both could not stop their player pawns from getting to the eighth rank and thereby, gaining a queen. Each would have been checkmated a few moves later if they had not resigned.
Special mention should be made of Dennis who fought a hard battle against a player who is much higher graded.
It will be a tough return match against them when they will be looking for a win instead of the draw and we will also be looking to improve.
In the end a draw was a fair result for our first match of the new season, hopefully better things are to come in our next match on the 24th November against Petts Wood.
Keith Thompson
Saturday, 11 September 2010
AGM 2010
AGM is to be held of the 15th of September, 8pm.
The agenda is similar to previous years with the addition of captains being required for the Harvey and Intro cup teams.
The agenda is similar to previous years with the addition of captains being required for the Harvey and Intro cup teams.
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Friday, 2 July 2010
Grading List 2010
WHEN WILL THE GRADING LIST APPEAR?
The 2010 Grading List is expected to appear on the ECF website in late(ish) July.
From: http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1829
The 2010 Grading List is expected to appear on the ECF website in late(ish) July.
From: http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1829
Thursday, 8 April 2010
John Rowe
John Rowe died in his sleep on 7th April 2010. He had been an enthusiastic member of the club since December 1989, when he joined as a pensioner. He was still coming regularly to the club until three weeks before his death. He will be sadly missed by all.
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Intro - Sidcup v Lewisham Match Report
Captain's Report
01.04.10
Not a very good evening for us after our good win a few weeks before; I was at least hoping for draw.
Lewisham had their number 1 player drop out the night before so they had to bring in John Allen as acting Captain for the night (the father of Thomas). John is rated 159 and consequently, this pushed their average ratings above the legal limit, leading to a half point forfeit.
Derek Johnston was the first to lose, going down a piece early on in his game which he never really recovered from. After that, we all went down during the course of the evening one by one.
I think perhaps Phil Broughton put up the best fight, only losing out to a promoted pawn he could not stop. So in the end it must have been sweet revenge for Lewisham trouncing us 3.5 to 0.5.
It was pity as losing the match, we finished 3 out of 3, but it was close thing in the end, as had we had won that, we would have finished equal top perhaps only finishing second in the league on games diff.
Keith Thompson
01.04.10
Not a very good evening for us after our good win a few weeks before; I was at least hoping for draw.
Lewisham had their number 1 player drop out the night before so they had to bring in John Allen as acting Captain for the night (the father of Thomas). John is rated 159 and consequently, this pushed their average ratings above the legal limit, leading to a half point forfeit.
Derek Johnston was the first to lose, going down a piece early on in his game which he never really recovered from. After that, we all went down during the course of the evening one by one.
I think perhaps Phil Broughton put up the best fight, only losing out to a promoted pawn he could not stop. So in the end it must have been sweet revenge for Lewisham trouncing us 3.5 to 0.5.
It was pity as losing the match, we finished 3 out of 3, but it was close thing in the end, as had we had won that, we would have finished equal top perhaps only finishing second in the league on games diff.
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Keith Thompson
Friday, 2 April 2010
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Sunday, 24 January 2010
Fuller - Sidcup v Lewisham Match Report
Captain's Report
Sidcup(2) v Lewisham(6)
Played at Sidcup on Wednesday 14th January 2010
After the difficulties of the winter condition, we are now able to resume playing chess after the weather enforced extended Christmas break.
Sidcup fielded a strong side with :-
Board 1 Ken Grist 119 v Ian Moody 111
Board 2 Dennis Halton 112 v Delroy Bennett 104
Board 3 Keith Thompson 107 v Ken Smith 98
Board 4 Peter Houchin 95 v Daniel Dacra 95
On paper it looked as though we had the stronger side, but things aren't always as they seem. We started the evening off well by winning the toss and decided to play white on the odd board.
I got us off to good start by beating Ken Smith with the white. I have played Ken on 2 occasions before, having won with the white piece and drawn with the black. He tends to play e5 to my e4 so I can play the Spanish or the Ruy Lopez, which I play when e5 is played. On this occasion, Ken played the Steinitz Defence. I was never in too much trouble and it was the first game to finish.
Then Dennis got us 2 points up by beating Delroy Bennett. I think after about 20 moves, Delroy offered Dennis a draw, but from what I could see, there was still plenty of play left in the game, so I think it was more out of hope than anything else. Dennis managed to exchange 2 pieces for a rook and from then on, he just had to take care to secure the win.
Peter had one of those nights where nothing would go right for him, but he played on to the end, where his opponent had pawns ready to queen. Peter said he was in a lost position from about move 10. It was a surprising loss as this is his first lost for the season and Peter has been playing well, where we could have hoped he would secure a draw at least.
The last game to finish on the night was Ken. I was hoping he could reverse his previous loss earlier in the season. Although Ken put up a brave fight, he was a piece down when I started looking at the match and after about 35 moves he was in a losing position.
So at the end of the evening, the result was 2-2. This was a better than when we played the away fixture (where we lost) so they have taken 3 points off of us this year.
As I wrote earlier re: being the stronger side on paper: even though we had beaten Petts Wood in our first game of the season and they had beaten this Lewisham side, things don't always turn out as expected.
Keith Thompson
Sidcup(2) v Lewisham(6)
Played at Sidcup on Wednesday 14th January 2010
After the difficulties of the winter condition, we are now able to resume playing chess after the weather enforced extended Christmas break.
Sidcup fielded a strong side with :-
Board 1 Ken Grist 119 v Ian Moody 111
Board 2 Dennis Halton 112 v Delroy Bennett 104
Board 3 Keith Thompson 107 v Ken Smith 98
Board 4 Peter Houchin 95 v Daniel Dacra 95
On paper it looked as though we had the stronger side, but things aren't always as they seem. We started the evening off well by winning the toss and decided to play white on the odd board.
I got us off to good start by beating Ken Smith with the white. I have played Ken on 2 occasions before, having won with the white piece and drawn with the black. He tends to play e5 to my e4 so I can play the Spanish or the Ruy Lopez, which I play when e5 is played. On this occasion, Ken played the Steinitz Defence. I was never in too much trouble and it was the first game to finish.
Then Dennis got us 2 points up by beating Delroy Bennett. I think after about 20 moves, Delroy offered Dennis a draw, but from what I could see, there was still plenty of play left in the game, so I think it was more out of hope than anything else. Dennis managed to exchange 2 pieces for a rook and from then on, he just had to take care to secure the win.
Peter had one of those nights where nothing would go right for him, but he played on to the end, where his opponent had pawns ready to queen. Peter said he was in a lost position from about move 10. It was a surprising loss as this is his first lost for the season and Peter has been playing well, where we could have hoped he would secure a draw at least.
The last game to finish on the night was Ken. I was hoping he could reverse his previous loss earlier in the season. Although Ken put up a brave fight, he was a piece down when I started looking at the match and after about 35 moves he was in a losing position.
So at the end of the evening, the result was 2-2. This was a better than when we played the away fixture (where we lost) so they have taken 3 points off of us this year.
As I wrote earlier re: being the stronger side on paper: even though we had beaten Petts Wood in our first game of the season and they had beaten this Lewisham side, things don't always turn out as expected.
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Keith Thompson
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
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