{"id":815,"date":"2022-04-21T12:19:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/?p=815"},"modified":"2022-04-21T12:19:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:19:55","slug":"the-mighty-bees-nick-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/21\/the-mighty-bees-nick-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Bee&#8217;s &#8220;Nick&#8221; it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Culcheth A v Culcheth B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 6 March this very local Division 1 derby took place. The A Team were without several of their regular players but the B Team was, by contrast, oversubscribed. So one of the B Team&#8217;s stronger players, Andy Coe, was loaned to the A Team ensuring that they out-graded the B Team on four of the 5 boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first game to finish was my Board 4 encounter with Bryan Slater, who had spectacularly won his two most recent league games and was clearly in great form. By contrast I had won only 2 of my 10 games this season, albeit most of them had been against players graded significantly higher than me. But chess is a great leveller and having lost one pawn, followed swiftly by the loss of another Bryan conceded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style='border: 0;' width='900px' height='600px' src='https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=Qccp77OkqhzNGkoPkF\/tNhasbCGaEV2OQTFl+B6YPGpr2c0zlBYbDaprdSDD6PAS'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>On Board 2 Ilya Dubov was playing Black against Keith Maudsley and opted for his favourite Caro Kann Defence. Ilya has had a terrific first season with the club and also at Blackpool, but Keith is an immensely experienced, resilient and resourceful player. Perhaps it was no surprise that this encounter ended in a draw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style='border: 0;' width='900px' height='600px' src='https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=ECviEkbk11q8GtLnXA8uNvBVJfHhyX81EGpXdtvltVuI+Z8KulrRDyodp2g0z2Xa'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The B Team was assured of at least a share of the match spoils when Nick Cooke overcame Dan Robinson in a see-saw encounter on Board 5. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style='border: 0;' width='900px' height='600px' src='https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=4NyzOernplJiigPL9+M86ufzugwJRgxZdwKerhpm9EnVzVytFLP8TuzBVVzuE1TR'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Victory for The Mighty Bees was achieved in a thrilling game on Board 3 in which Jonathan Miller built a winning advantage against Andy Coe only to dissipate it in time trouble. But for his slips on moves 53 and 54 the winning margin would have been even greater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style='border: 0;' width='900px' height='600px' src='https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=7BgjZ7DExVUdNt4Rhlq6XlnnhLn5erig+wtglIw7iyStjZyefgsCD4bvAN1Tk8Cl'><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Last, and by no means least, was the game on the top board between Tom Vout and Damian McCarthy. <em>(This game is unannotated as of yet may come later! My only comment would be that it was a classic case of &#8220;Too many Rooks spoiling the broth&#8221;)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style='border: 0;' width='900px' height='600px' src='https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=7BgjZ7DExVUdNt4Rhlq6Xsdu4dGUrBUZ12oh\/RjGuJmYUGVsqoSdrlkmwzFNc48R'><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culcheth A v Culcheth B On 6 March this very local Division 1 derby took place. The A Team were without several of their regular players but the B Team was, by contrast, oversubscribed. 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