Lee Davis lost to a 153 graded player in the last round of the Week 1 Morning tournament. Here is the final crosstable:
5 Day Open AM Week 1 Final Crosstable
Venue: St George's Hall, Liverpool
Date: 28 Jul 08 to 01 Aug 08
Timings: First 40 moves in 100 mins. 20 mins to completion.
1 Pearcey, David F......... 137B w3= b9+ w2+ b4+ w6+ 4½
2 Guo, Xi-Yang............. 153A b6+ w4+ b1- w5+ b7+ 4
3 Bielby, Paul............. 164B b1= w7+ b4- w8= b9+ 3
4 Combie, Alexander........ 151A w9+ b2- w3+ w1- b8+ 3
5 Crouch, Timothy J........ 109A b7= w8= w6= b2- bye+ 2½
6 Davis, Ashley J.......... 98A w2- bye+ b5= w9+ b1- 2½
7 Davis, Lee............... 163A w5= b3- b8= bye+ w2- 2
8 Gardner, Joan............ 102A bye= b5= w7= b3= w4- 2
9 Cuffe, Brendan........... 64r b4- w1- bye+ b6- w3- 1
Index:
A = Player's score
B = Number of graded games played
Let's hope he redeems himself in the Championship itself, where he currently stands on 0/4.
Another loss for Lee Davis sees him firmly entrenched at the bottom of the British Championships:
34 Gibson, Christopher A... 2003 (0) 1 - 0 Davis, Lee.............. 2071 (0)
There's no Mr Bye to help him out in this one and he's running out of weak opponents. It could be a long and painful second week for Our Hero.
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Lots of very illustrious names on our alumni list including
(from memory)
Danny King, Julian Hodgson RD Keene and many others.
Me.
Edinburgh's Simon Gillam was a memeber when he was in London. He use to
send me your club magazines - still have them (somewhere)- I'm sure I sent down
money to become an out of town member (1977/78) so I could
get your mag. It was good.
Nicked an opening trap from it that I still catch players with today.
Originally posted by greenpawn34That will have been Knightmare probably.
I'm sure I sent down
money to become an out of town member (1977/78) so I could
get your mag. It was good..
We were going to resurect the name for the blog but sadly the name was taken (both .co.uk and .com) for a fansite for some ITV kiddie series from the late 80s
Originally posted by Fat LadyLee. I'm. Very. Disappointed.
Another loss for Lee Davis sees him firmly entrenched at the bottom of the British Championships:
34 Gibson, Christopher A... 2003 (0) 1 - 0 Davis, Lee.............. 2071 (0)
There's no Mr Bye to help him out in this one and he's running out of weak opponents. It could be a long and painful second week for Our Hero.
It does indeed look like he could lose as many games in a week as he's lost in 5 years of playing on this site.
Stay online & stay away from those nasty OTB types would be my advice.
Originally posted by greenpawn34Yes, that was about the time I was a member. I remember Simon Gillam and of course Danny King, Julian Hodgson, Glenn Flear and the other strong players at S & B at that time. Nigel Povah (now the backer of Guildford ADC in the 4NCL) was the guiding force then.
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Lots of very illustrious names on our alumni list including
(from memory)
Danny King, Julian Hodgson RD Keene and many others.
Me.
Edinburgh's Simon Gillam was a memeber when he was in London. He use to
send me your club magazines - still have them (somewhere)- I'm sure I sent down
money to become an out of town member (1977/78) s ...[text shortened]... our mag. It was good.
Nicked an opening trap from it that I still catch players with today.
David Tebb's fourth round game in the Major Open. David is White against a talented junior, Akash Jain, who is 14 years old and graded 167.
Black's 26 ... b6 stunk like a dead dog on a hot day, handing White a protected passed pawn on the sixth rank! I thought White could play Rxb6 at various stages from move 29 onwards, but his plan of swapping off Black's bishop on b8 seemed to win quickly without any fuss.
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Originally posted by Fat LadyActually the black knight which is on e7 should really be on f8. Whoever inputted the game score, mistakenly put the wrong knight on g6 at move 31. This is what really happened:
David Tebb's fourth round game in the Major Open. David is White against a talented junior, Akash Jain, who is 14 years old and graded 167.
[pgn]
[Event "Major Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2008.07.31"]
[Round "4.40"]
[White "Tebb, David"]
[Black "Jain, Akash"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "2215"]
[BlackElo "2005"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDa ...[text shortened]... ng off Black's bishop on b8 seemed to win quickly without any fuss.
I had to be careful not to play Rxb6 too soon, because Black had a few tricks. For instance 29.Rxb6?? would be a blunder because of 29..Bf4! and Black is at least equal.
Similarly 30.Rxb6?? axb6 31.Rxa8 fails to 31..Bxh2+ winning the exchange and the game.
31.Rxb6? is also very bad, because of 31..Bf4 32.Rb7 Bxd2 33.Rxe7 Bxc3 and White has lost a piece.
Originally posted by Fat LadyI assume the last 20 moves or so were conducted in a time scramble. The knight and pawn ending is so trivially won it's hard to believe a guy playing morning and afternoon for a week would want to play it out unless he had some reason to hope for a draw.
White had scant regard for tempi; Black for pawns.