{"id":78,"date":"2019-09-15T18:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T17:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2019-09-18T18:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:55:18","slug":"culcheth-a-v-culcheth-b-11-09-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/culcheth-a-v-culcheth-b-11-09-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Culcheth A V Culcheth B 11\/09\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <em>Board one&#8217;s game can be viewed below along with the Captains match report and also board four can be viewed <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/game\/?p=WB3MrN0mWPPCATf3FIav19+6SlF52HFWdCeTL3TPpgyfa8E8WJTvu2uOmFMas+xI\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>, with many thanks for the humorous annotation of his game given by Nick Burriss!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Div-1-trophy-1024x945.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"81\" data-link=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/div-1-trophy\/\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Div-1-trophy-1024x945.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Div-1-trophy-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Div-1-trophy-768x709.jpg 768w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Div-1-trophy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Last seasons trophy, being presented to Tom<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Culcheth B<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>V<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Culcheth A<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Keith Maudsley<\/td><td>0 &#8211; 1<\/td><td>Marek Mazek<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Stephen Cole<\/td><td>0 &#8211; 1<\/td><td>Jonathan Smith<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Andy Coe<\/td><td>1 \u2013 0<\/td><td>Iain Johnson<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nick Burriss<\/td><td>0 \u2013 1<\/td><td>Robert Furness<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Mike Rotchell<\/td><td>0 \u2013 1<\/td><td>Damian McCarthy<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Nick Cook<\/td><td>0 \u2013 1 <\/td><td>Tom Vout<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><br><\/td><td><strong>1 \u2013 5 Final Score<\/strong><\/td><td><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Match report: Culcheth A v Culcheth B &#8211; 11 th September 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to a new website and new blog ! We hope, dear reader, you like it. We are looking to raise<br>\nthe profile of chess and perhaps most of all to have a bit of fun.<br>\nWith a bit of luck, this will be one of many posts from club members of match and congress reports,<br>\nbrilliancies, blunders and whatever takes the interest of club members (though anyone writing an<br>\nessay on ECF administration will be given a \u2018talking to\u2019 by the committee).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo begin at the beginning\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is, apparently, a 1997 slasher flick called \u201cI know what you did last summer\u201d. In my case, this<br> was breaking the annual promise to myself to \u2018learn an opening\u2019 \u2013 any opening in fact. As I sat down<br> with black to play in this season\u2019s curtain-raiser, I noted my lack of industry and poverty of ideas.<br> Fortunately, my board 2 opponent and opposition captain, Steve Cole, seemed to have had raw<br> meat for tea and played into one of only 3 openings I know up to move 9, playing 10.f5 to the<br> poisoned pawn variation of the Sicilian.<br> However, after move 9 it all became a little hazy, and I was forced to dredge through memories of<br> playing it in a simul, a Kasparov DVD lost in a burglary (seriously &#8211; who in Warrington nicks chess<br> DVDs ?? Who fences them down the pub ?\u2026ere, fancy a knock orf chess DVD guvnor ?) and my last<br> competitive matches in the line 35 years ago (as a junior !!). I sank into unproductive thought,<br> guessed a move because it looked ok to save some time, and then wombled off to look at the other<br> boards in my first attack of \u2018captainitus\u2019* this season. Our game is, for what it is worth, tacked on<br> below. <a href=\"http:\/\/view.chessbase.com\/cbreader\/2019\/9\/18\/Game580750406.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Steve V Jonathan (opens in a new tab)\">Steve V Jonathan<\/a><br> Both teams were at pretty well full strength, which meant Marek got white against Keith in a<br> classical looking queenside opening (I really don\u2019t know openings do I ? &#8211; thankfully Damian<br> identified it in his game comments and analysis &#8211; many thanks webmaster !). Iain had white against<br> Andy\u2019s Owen defence, Rob played a Pirc against Nick B (this game is on the blog with Nick\u2019s<br> commentary) and Damian faced Mike\u2019s Scandinavian. More on board 6 later.<br> On my return, Steve seemed to be confidently in known theory and started chopping wood, Nxc6,<br> Bxf6, and then dropped his Bishop onto e2 hoping to occupy h5. Without the knights, my position<br> looked bereft of activity for my extra pawn. I played h5, which apparently Steve has seen before. It<br> looks unconvincing but has the advantage of controlling the dark squares if I can engineer Bh6, e3<br> etc, and he paused for a bit of a think. In the simul I have vague recollections of playing Rg8-g5 to<br> cover the square which might be better.<br> The wood chopping had spread to (or perhaps, from ?) board 4 and there the position appeared<br> somewhat wild to my untutored eye. Rob\u2019s finish was a nice sac, 1-0.<br> On board 5, Damian got a lot of play out of the opening, and Mike fell victim to a fork of king and<br> rook &#8211; the pawn covering the check was pinned to the king. The loss of the exchange and position<br> was too much, 2-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom beat Nick C on 6, but it was the subject of a little debate in the bar afterwards as to whether<br>\nNick could have struck a glorious win with a Bxh7, Kxh7, Ng5+ etc motif. No final carbon-based<br>\nverdict was returned, and I haven\u2019t heard from our silicon friends yet, 3-0.<br>\nIn my match Steve exchanged pawns on e6 to get his rook round the back on b7 hitting the pawn on<br>\nf7, and then without castling lined up Q+R on it as well. My position felt rather loose at the back, but<br>\nSteve\u2019s nice idea was lost by an oversight. After the exchanges on f6 the Bishop pinned the knight on<br>\nc3 and after\u2026d4 the loss of material was too great, 4-0. Lucky me.<br>\nBy this time, Iain\u2019s game had started to go south \u2013 an open g file turned out to be a disadvantage<br>\nbecause both rooks appeared tied to the defence of wing pawns which were simultaneously<br>\nattacked by Andy\u2019s queen on e7, and it was only a matter of time before black\u2019s bad bishop was re-<br>\npositioned. A few tricks were soon negotiated by Andy, 4-1.<br>\nI will leave you to play through Marek and Keith\u2019s game as annotated by Damian. It had a<br>\nconventional look until Marek gave up a pawn on f5 to open the lines, and Keith sacrificed the<br>\nexchange on c3 to get his bishop to e4 and eye up an invasion on g2. No-one fancied a draw by the<br>\nlook of it. The ending was an oversight in time pressure, but entertaining. 5-1.<br>\nAs Damian has already said on the blog, the match was not as clear as the 5-1 result would suggest.<br>\nNext stop: Northwich A &#8211; perhaps I can learn some opening theory for this one? You never know &#8211;<br>\never the optimist.<br>\nYour unelected despot, JS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ps. Captainitus \u2013 an obsession with checking the state of the match such that the captain spends<br>\nmore time at other boards than his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=uOu0uK\/Rl06q7AVO0bTBcsp0o\/a2l7vX4yvk3BtL7T9KF3F5ct4WFcc1J0BtgMWG\" width=\"900px\" height=\"600px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board one&#8217;s game can be viewed below along with the Captains match report and also board four can be viewed here, with many thanks for the humorous annotation of his game given by Nick Burriss! Culcheth B V Culcheth A Keith Maudsley 0 &#8211; 1 Marek Mazek Stephen Cole 0 &#8211; 1 Jonathan Smith Andy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/15\/culcheth-a-v-culcheth-b-11-09-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Culcheth A V Culcheth B 11\/09\/19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}