Top of the league
Excellent news from Ward Street. In last night's Surrey Trophy match, Guildford 1 beat Kingston 1 by 4.5–3.5. The victory takes Guildford 1 to the top of the table after two matches played. The teams were evenly-matched on paper with Guildford rated 2049 on average and Kingston 2064.
All the decisive games went in favour of the higher-rated player, with Gwilym Price and Roger Emerson losing on boards 1 and 2, but Rolandas Lukosius, Ian Deswarte and Seb Twisk winning on boards 4, 7 and 8. Draws for Clive Frostick, Seb Galer and Julien Shepley on boards 3, 5 and 6.
The web manager did not see most of the games, but was interested to see Clive Frostick v Peter Lalic eventually reach the theoretically-drawn ending of king and knight v king and bishop. It is possible to construct a mating position whether either the knight wins or the bishop wins, so even though that was never going to happen, it's just as well that neither player lost on time.
Seb had the honour of defeating Stephen Moss, a keen player who is also a Guardian journalist in his spare time. So I expect that's one match report we won't be reading in the papers.
All the decisive games went in favour of the higher-rated player, with Gwilym Price and Roger Emerson losing on boards 1 and 2, but Rolandas Lukosius, Ian Deswarte and Seb Twisk winning on boards 4, 7 and 8. Draws for Clive Frostick, Seb Galer and Julien Shepley on boards 3, 5 and 6.
The web manager did not see most of the games, but was interested to see Clive Frostick v Peter Lalic eventually reach the theoretically-drawn ending of king and knight v king and bishop. It is possible to construct a mating position whether either the knight wins or the bishop wins, so even though that was never going to happen, it's just as well that neither player lost on time.
Seb had the honour of defeating Stephen Moss, a keen player who is also a Guardian journalist in his spare time. So I expect that's one match report we won't be reading in the papers.