Here’s the Match report for the IM Brown match today, Hull vs Sheffield E
Sheffield E made the long trip to Hull on a very windy day to face the team currently top of the table. They had beaten Huddersfield 6 – 2, a team we lost 2.5 – 5.5 to in our last match. Things also didn’t look too promising when their team sheet revealed they were led by five 170s! Most of the games were very close with the final score of 1 – 7 perhaps not fully doing justice to some decent positions for our team.
From the bottom, Eric was struggling for play out of the opening and gradually got pushed back. Colin was slightly better but slowly the position turned around the time control. I didn’t see any of Nat’s game but it was quite close. Keith seemed to have at least a draw when his opponent underpromoted to a knight (a position worthy of a puzzle book Keith informed me!) and lost. Srini exchanged off pieces to emphasise the weaknesses in his opponents pawn structure and then marched his king from d8 all the way to a2 to pick up a pawn and later the exchange and out only point of the day. Dave was a little bit worse out of the opening and his opponent managed to get a strong knight on the sixth rank and eventually generated a strong attack. Daniel was a pawn up for a long time and got the position down to queen, knight and five pawns versus queen, bishop and four….grabbed a second pawn just before the time control but there was just too much counterplay and lost a queen and pawn endgame.
Dave Stephenson 1 – 0 Daniel Sullivan
Eric Gardiner 1 – 0 Dave Glossop
Shaun Culkin 1 – 0 Chern Yean Sim
John Thackray 0 – 1 Srinivasa Muthukrishnan
Ian Bell 1 – 0 Keith Davis
Bryan Hesler 1 – 0 Nat Holroyd-Doveton
David Mills 1 – 0 Colin Whitehouse
Richard Callis 1 – 0 Eric McKenna