4NCL ( Four Nations Chess League): Dundee City win fest!
4NCL ( Four Nations Chess League)
Tuesday 23rd March 21 – Round 5 – 7:30pm
Dundee City teams are a joint venture between Castlehill Chess Club Dundee and Dundee Chess Club
RESULTS
Division One – Group D
Poisoned Pawns 1½ – 2½ Dundee City A
A good result against a team who were above Dundee City A in the league table. Dundee City A had the stronger players over the four boards, but not everything has gone to plan this campaign! Well played Jacques, Declan, Ed & Stephen! Dundee City sit in 6th place on 4 points.
| Poisoned Pawns | Dundee City A | |||||||
| 2057 | w | Volovich, Julia | ½ – ½ | Ophoff, Jacques | b | 2256 | ||
| 1971 | b | Srivastava, Arnav | 0 – 1 | Shafi, Declan | w | 2150 | ||
| 1867 | w | Weersing, Abigail Riis | ½ – ½ | Spencer, Edwin A | b | 2121 | ||
| 1941 | b | Zheng, Harry Z | ½ – ½ | Hogg, Stephen William | w | 2027 | ||
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| 1½ – 2½ | ||||||||
Division Five – Group D
Broadland Falco Duboisi 1 – 3 Dundee City B
This was a double header top of the table clash and what a result by our boy`s! Out graded on “EVERY” board, every player put their heart and soul into this match and came up trumps! This result puts Dundee City B top of the table in group D on 10 points! Their beaten rivals are in 2nd place on 8 points. Well played Sam, Alan, Andre & Euan! Still unbeaten in the group, outstanding!
| Broadland Falco Duboisi | Dundee City B | |||||||
| 2177 | w | Duncanson, Henry G | ½ – ½ | Gregory, Sam | b | 1931 | ||
| 2065 | b | Frean, Daniel J | ½ – ½ | Borwell, Alan P | w | 1950 | ||
| 2029 | w | Hughes, Roy | 0 – 1 | Babin, Andre | b | 1829 | ||
| 1854 | b | Saravanan, Karthik | 0 – 1 | Dawson, Euan | w | 1833 | ||
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| 1 – 3 | ||||||||
Division Seven – Swiss League (70 teams)
Hebden Bridge Two 2 – 2 Dundee City C
Dundee City C was level on points (6pts) with their opponents, only separated by board points. This was a chance to move up the table, but their opponents out graded them on 3 of the 4 boards.
It was some match with some very exciting positions and chess. Several of the matches could have gone either way, but in the end a valiant and possibly deserved result for both teams. Dariusz`s game on board one was wild! Martin`s on board 3 was speaking a different language to his opponent, French I think? While Rishi on board 4 finished his opponent off in showmanship style, with a nice combination finishing in a smothering mate! John…unlucky!
Dundee City C, move up to 11th place on 8 points with 8 other teams. The leaders are on 9 points so with two rounds to go still in the hunt for top spot!
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Dundee City C | |||||||
| 1896 | w | Wedge, David C | 1 – 0 | Kosznik, Dariusz | b | 1853 | ||
| 1555 | b | Blinkhorn, Joshua | 1 – 0 | Robertson, John | w | 1562 o | ||
| 1612 | w | Marsden, Christopher | 0 – 1 | Chalmers, Martin | b | 1505 o | ||
| 1397 | b | Catlow, Robert | 0 – 1 | Vijayakumar, Rishi | w | 1002 o | ||
| 2 – 2 | ||||||||
What a fantastic night’s chess with all three Dundee City teams winning! Well played every one!
For all the results and standings so far, checkout the 4NCL webside (link below).