{"id":964,"date":"2023-03-04T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2023-03-04T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T14:37:30","slug":"atherton-a-v-culcheth-a-28th-feburary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/04\/atherton-a-v-culcheth-a-28th-feburary\/","title":{"rendered":"Atherton A V Culcheth A -28th Feburary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2-1024x269.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2-1024x269.png 1024w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2-768x202.png 768w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2-1536x404.png 1536w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2-1200x315.png 1200w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-2.png 1819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lineup&#8217;s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The A team faced defending league champions Atherton for the second time this season knowing that a win would but us two points clear at the top with a game in hand. We had a strong lineup for this one with all of our main players being avaliable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Atheron also had a strong line up which was shown by the fact that their bottom board Paul Doherty had just recently finished in 1st place in the Blackpool Major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual most of the games we&#8217;re very close during the early stages, Furness V Doherty on board 5 and Smith V Mulleady on 3 had a similar symmetrical English pawn structure with pawns on e4 and c4 for white and e5, c5 for Black. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Board 5 was the first to finish as Robert agreed to an early draw against Doherty <strong>0.5-0.5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On board 3 Jonathan&#8217;s position began to deteriorate, I didn&#8217;t get to see the finer details but I wondered if one factor may have been that White&#8217;s Knight on f3 impeded the f-pawn wheras Mulleady&#8217;s was free to be pushed. Usually the knight&#8217;s are better on e2 \/ e7 in that Botvinnik type structure. Resignation came for White in the early middlegame as the opposition captain gave Atherton the lead. <strong>1.5-0.5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On board 4 Damian equalized early on in the Black side of an Alapin Sicilian, Lythgoe headed for early exchanges and offered several draws. Unfortunately for Damian he overpressed in a position where he thought he had a winning move but miscounted and it turned out it was Black who was queening first! Ironically the game was probably still technically a draw when Damian resigned in disgust with himself. 2.5-0.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=L+aCVOLo9k6KK6zSvO\/meQF3q1nIK8kYqim1pbWKE2T7ns1FLc22Z4xlx9F0+Wes\" width=\"900px\" height=\"600px\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/game\/?p=L+aCVOLo9k6KK6zSvO\/meQF3q1nIK8kYqim1pbWKE2T7ns1FLc22Z4xlx9F0+Wes\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/game\/?p=L+aCVOLo9k6KK6zSvO\/meQF3q1nIK8kYqim1pbWKE2T7ns1FLc22Z4xlx9F0+Wes\">Lythgoe V McCarthy (bigger screen)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This left the top two boards to try and salvage something from the fixture. On board two Marek was facing Lee Kay as Black. Marek adopted a Stonewall setup against Kay&#8217;s Catalan opening. After a balanced Kay managed to turn his weak backward pawn on c3 into a strength on c5, Marek gave up his Bishop to try to create counterplay against White&#8217;s King but there was to be no compensation for the loss of the Bishop. <strong>3.5-0.5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=L+aCVOLo9k6KK6zSvO\/meSBVk8x43n3b4dgLxN6ex24FjhPWSClmV9lKv9vteHLd\" width=\"900px\" height=\"600px\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/game\/?p=L+aCVOLo9k6KK6zSvO\/meSBVk8x43n3b4dgLxN6ex24FjhPWSClmV9lKv9vteHLd\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/game\/?p=L+aCVOLo9k6KK6zSvO\/meSBVk8x43n3b4dgLxN6ex24FjhPWSClmV9lKv9vteHLd\">Kay V Mazek (bigger Screen)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top board Tom Quilter was up against Ethan Norris. Tom adopted an aggressive setup against his opponent&#8217;s Najdorf. Ethan defended accurately when a very small oversight from Tom resulted in a dramatic shift in the game as Black&#8217;s d6 pawn began to run down the board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a worse position after this Tom did everything possible to create complications but Ethan held firm to bring home the point for Atherton. <strong>4.5-0.5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/frame\/?p=hbL3C5JvkmA+SBetnNmRjSreD50WHul7in9YK1el\/eXNSHT5z8O1IkwCCPmrf+WY\" width=\"900px\" height=\"600px\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/game\/?p=hbL3C5JvkmA+SBetnNmRjSreD50WHul7in9YK1el\/eXNSHT5z8O1IkwCCPmrf+WY\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/share.chessbase.com\/SharedGames\/game\/?p=hbL3C5JvkmA+SBetnNmRjSreD50WHul7in9YK1el\/eXNSHT5z8O1IkwCCPmrf+WY\">Quilter V Norris (Big Board)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1024x273.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1024x273.png 1024w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-768x205.png 768w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1536x410.png 1536w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1200x320.png 1200w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png 1716w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-1024x383.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-1024x383.png 1024w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-768x287.png 768w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3-1200x449.png 1200w, https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-3.png 1476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">as of 28th Feb 23<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A team faced defending league champions Atherton for the second time this season knowing that a win would but us two points clear at the top with a game in hand. We had a strong lineup for this one with all of our main players being avaliable. Atheron also had a strong line up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/04\/atherton-a-v-culcheth-a-28th-feburary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Atherton A V Culcheth A -28th Feburary&#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-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","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=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culchethchessclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}