Our Richard Furness League side played their first game of the season with a visit to Atherton.
This is a grade limited competition where sides are made up of 4 players who need to have a combined team grade of 6600 or under. This leads to some interesting strategies, some sides choose to field sides of players all around the 1600 mark whilst others try to load the top boards with lower rated players on the bottom boards. The sides chose differing strategies with their line ups for this match where Atherton had a very strong player on board 1.
In the end it was the Atherton plan that paid off as they managed to win the fixture 3-1. Nick has kindly annotated his own game below against Lee Kay one of our league’s strongest players whom he had the opportunity to play against.
Burriss V Kay – Large window pop out page.