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2006 / 2007 County Results - Open |
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The Hampshire Open team is run by Dominic Tunks |
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| West of England Matches | ||
| 24 September 2006 |
Jamboree |
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| 14 October 2006 | Hants A |
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Somerset A - Wincanton | |||
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14 October 2006 |
Hants B |
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Somerset B - As above |
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12 Nov to 14 Nov |
Hampshire Individual Championship |
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9 December 2006 |
Hants A |
lost |
Gloucester A - Urchfont - Home |
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20 January 2007 |
Hants B |
won |
Dorset B |
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10 February 2007 |
Hants A |
draw |
Cornwall A - Rockbeare |
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10 March 2007 |
Hants A |
lost |
Devon A - Wincanton |
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10 March 2007 |
Hants B |
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Devon B - Wincanton |
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| Date: 10 March 2007 - Wincanton | ||
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| Date: 10 March 2007 | ||
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| Date: 14 October 2006 | ||
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Do you know that feeling of not knowing what is going on in a given position? I'm familiar enough with it from my own games, but it reached a whole new level on Saturday when I looked at the game on Board 1 of the match between Hampshire and Somerset. Messrs Yeo and Rudd both relish a challenge and each took heavy damage to his position in order to inflict damage on his opponent's. An uncompromising extreme of chess that is hard to describe - "chess from another planet" was Mike Yeo's try. Maybe Mars, the god of war. Although the chess on the other boards may have been a little more recognisable, the same fighting spirit must have infected the rest of the players because there were so few draws in a match that was very well balanced. On paper Somerset were perhaps slight favourites and we can be well pleased with the 8-8 tie. The 2nd team did even better. This match was scheduled to be played over 8 boards but in the event neither us nor Somerset could find that many, so we played over 6. Somerset were definite favourites for this one but Hampshire won 3.5-2.5. Well done everyone. A great start and one we can look to build on. Dominic Tunks - Match Captain |
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| Date: 10 February 2007 | ||
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Hampshire played Cornwall on Saturday. This is always a difficult match to raise a team for. We moved the venue to 'our side' of Exeter, taking maybe 15 or 20 minutes off the journey, but it is still a long trek and not everyone can cope with the distance. Others of course do enjoy the day out and are regulars in the Cornwall match, but with several of these players unable to make it for other reasons, I was worried that we might not get a match at all. So I was really pleased when we managed to get a full 16 players for the match. A late casualty to the seasonal lurgy did reduce us back to 15, but that was still a fantastic effort, thank you everybody. Cornwall also suffered a late drop-out so we were 15 v 15. A tense match with quite a few draws ensued. Each time a Hampshire win was landed (winners being John Watts, Stuart Dean and Sam Murphy), a Cornwall one seemed to follow quickly, and vice versa, so there was never more than a point separating the teams. At 6.5-6.5 the Hampshire hopes rested with Gillian and Stephen on boards 10 and 11. Gillian was a pawn or two up in an opposite-coloured Bishops ending, but her opponent had a pawn on the 7th and all the play. Stephen had played actively throughout and had had his opponent under pressure for the whole game, leading to a pawn on the 7th, but his K was exposed and he had just gone a piece down to a series of checks: WKh2 Qb7 Ps c7,d5,g2.h3; BKh7 Qb4 Nb6 Ps d6,f7,g7,h6. (That's how I remember it anyway!) Now, ...Qc5 Qxb6 Qxb6 c8=Q and Black is slightly better but it should be a draw I thought. I thought Gillian was drawing too, so at this stage I was happy. When Stephen's opponent, having defended throughout, went straight for the perpetual with ...Qf4+. I was even happier. But play went Kg1 Qe3+ Kf1? and I couldn't look. Surely Black would see that ...Nc4! threatened mate.... OK W can cover d2 with the Q and then get a new Q on c8, but he sheds the d-pawn and B is favourite,... Stephen how can you do this to me!!??... When I could look again, B had played Qd3+ and the draw had been agreed. Nervously I looked back at Gillian's game (sadly I can't reconstruct this quite accurately enough to complete the story - it was something ;like WKg3 Rd4 Bb4 Ps h4,g2,e7,a3; BKf7 Rf6 Bc4 Ps h5,g6,d5,b5,b6 but I can't see why that is not trivially drawn, so I must have something wrong). Anyway, Rf4! was a good choice by White in the actual game position, because after the exchange on f4, the WK could march in and threaten havoc. It looked like we were going to have to endure some more tense minutes, but, to this Captain's relief in any event, the handshake followed very quickly. Several other games are also worthy of mention. Martin's draw on board 4 was an interesting hold from 2 pawns down. At the end, Martin may even have been favourite, but, as we have already seen, it can be hard to switch over from playing for a draw to playing to win - especially when playing for the draw has eaten up most of your time allowance. The most convincing game I saw was played by the lowest-graded player in the room. An excellent win by Sam Murphy in the Morra Gambit. Once his opponent made the mistake of allowing his K to get stuck in the centre, Sam hounded the hapless monarch, breaking through with some nice play. Dominic Tunks - Match Captain |
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