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6th Edition - Saturday 10th November 2007

The Chester Chess Chronicle

Chester 1 Defeat Caergwrle

Chester's Wirral League first team have won their second game of the season, defeating potential winners Caergwrle 3½-1½.

Very early on, Chester took the lead due to Caergwrle board one John Gorman failing to arrive for his match with Chris Doran.

Chester captain Steve Lloyd had been struggling to find a fifth player as both Matt Demmon and David Bryan were both away, and arrived on Tuesday night with only four confirmed players. However thankfully Matt Demmon made an appearance and was immediately drafted.

Matt Demmon played board three against Edwin Livesey. It was a close game, but a mistake from Livesey gave Demmon a powerful rook on the seventh rank and a good bishop on

the long a8-h1 diagonal. Livesey resigned when it became clear the two pieces could combine to capture material.

The next game to finish was on board two, where Chester's Ard van Bergen agreed a draw with Caergwrle's Rob Skinner. Then the victory was sealed as Graham Bromley defeated Nick Maung after Maung resigned in time trouble.

The match was sealed, however Caergwrle were able to salvage some pride back with David Parker-Williams defeating captain Steve Lloyd.

Fourth Team Lose At Mold

Chester's fourth team were defeat by a narrow 3-2 score line away against Buckley/Mold 1.

Chester 4 had one of their stronge-

-st possible teams for this match, with Joe Nemcek and Steve Lloyd returning from duties with the second team, however they were still not a match for Buckley/Mold.

Chester went 2-0 down from boards four and five, with Paul Harnett losing to Frank Salt and Colin White losing to Stephen Dunning.

Joe Nemcek was able to pull one back, defeating Quentin Dodd, but after David Hulme resigned to Andrew Barber on board 1 the match was over, though Steve Lloyd was able to salvage some pride back, eventually beating Brian Lowens as the flags on the clock were about to drop.

Meanwhile, Chester 3 were hammered 4-1 in a poor home defeat to Capenhurst.

Tournament Success

In recent a recent tournament in Ormskirk, Steve Lloyd finished on 4½/6 to share second prize. Then the following week in Bolton, Steve Lloyd scored 4½ again, this time sharing third prize. Colin White also took part, finishing on a score of 3/6.

County Call Up For Juniors

Four players from Chester YMCA Junior Chess Club have been selected to play for the Cheshire & North Wales County team.

Marvin Hayes, Ben Harrington, Arthur Fearnall and Alastair Tonge will represent their County in a competition in Birmingham this weekend. News of their performances will appear in a later edition.