17/06/2021
Online League Season 2 Round 8
Round
8 of the on-line league, season 2, played on 17/06/2021, was not very
impressive to anyone playing through all the games, as far as the standard
of chess was concerned. Those who play little chess on line perhaps
do not “see” the position on a diagram on a screen as well as they would if
it were on a real chessboard, and this perhaps explains some of the gross
elementary errors committed.
This
round saw a welcome return to Association leaue chess, albeit of the
virtual kind, of Andrew Hards. The game Hards v Ward might have
produced something exciting, but sad to say, the game was a tame quick
draw. And, by the way, Andrew, we are still sitting on the congress
bank balance which is doing nothing. “Chess sets for schools”?
Just a thought which comes to mind.
Despite
forgetting to watch the games live, by getting up early on the morning
after, the present writer was able to capture all 31 games played.
(One Division 3 game was “aborted” for some reason, and at the time of
writing stands with a 0-0 game score.)
None
of the games seems very exciting or impressively played, though the final
position in the Arnott-Frost game, at the point when Black resigned, could
be interesting to analyse. Black probably did right to resign, though
one wonders quite what the best continuation was.
The
game Williams v Lee in the lucky dip was quite pleasing at the end, as
Stephen Lee delivered mate by under-promotion to a rook! (Yes,
promoting to a queen would have done just as well, but would have lacked
style.)
The
remaining two rounds are scheduled for 1st July and 15th July 2021.
Below
are links to the 20 games played in Divisions 1 and 2, and the Lucky
Dip. Click on “play” by a game to play through the game on screen.
|
Division 1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sheffield Nomads A
|
3˝-˝
|
Woodseats A
|
|
B
|
Oskar A Hackner
|
1-0
|
Mark S Allison
|
(play)
|
W
|
Chris CW Shephard
|
1-0
|
Daniel Gottschalk
|
(play)
|
B
|
Andrew Hards
|
˝-˝
|
W (Bill) Ward
|
(play)
|
W
|
Henry Withington
|
1-0
|
Dale Daykin
|
(play)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Darnall & Handsworth A
|
1˝‑2˝
|
Hillsborough A
|
|
B
|
Aram Ter-Gevorkian
|
0-1
|
Roy Ellames
|
(play)
|
W
|
Marek Gajdosz
|
˝-˝
|
Paul Fletcher
|
(play)
|
B
|
Craig Chatterton
|
0-1
|
Joseph B Bradey
|
(play)
|
W
|
Joe G Primrose
|
1-0
|
Alan K Sutton
|
(play)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Division 2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Woodseats B
|
1˝‑2˝
|
Rotherham
|
|
B
|
Jamie Woodhouse
|
˝-˝
|
Oliver Brennan
|
(play)
|
W
|
David Margerison
|
0-1
|
Peter Catt
|
(play)
|
B
|
Stephen Daykin
|
1-0
|
John Baker
|
(play)
|
W
|
Dave Cook
|
0-1
|
Wade Udin
|
(play)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SASCA A
|
2-2
|
Sheffield Nomads B
|
|
B
|
Ayodeji Jeje
|
1-0
|
Arjun Babu
|
(play)
|
W
|
Jonathan W Arnott
|
1-0
|
Geoff Frost
|
(play)
|
B
|
Marek Krajci
|
0-1
|
Duncan Chambers
|
(play)
|
W
|
Luke Harper
|
0-1
|
Koohyar Roshani
|
(play)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lucky Dip
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Barnsley A
|
3-1
|
Hillsborough B
|
|
B
|
Peter Micklethwaite
|
1-0
|
Ben Wood
|
(play)
|
W
|
Andrew Butterworth
|
1-0
|
Andrew Birtwhistle
|
(play)
|
B
|
Martin J Sheard
|
1-0
|
David J Grobler
|
(play)
|
W
|
Shane M C Williams
|
0-1
|
Stephen K Lee
|
(play)
|
Full
division match results and current league tables can be found on this
website in their usual places (links also on Home page):
Division 1
Division 2
Division 3
Lucky Dip
|