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Phoenix's venue Wednesday at the Harlequin...Despite six or seven players dropping out, the A Team beat Barnsley A. The top six boards all won, and with a default on 8 the final score was 7-1. Kieran's game had a nice finish decoying Black with the offer of the b2 pawn before launching a knight sac mate attack. The D Team lost 1½-4½ to top of the table Ecclesall C. Thursday the C Team played bottom of the table Phoenix B. At one point we were 3-1 ahead, including another win from Phil P, but Andrew was looking lost on Board 1 so, as Ian said, the only thing we had going for us was the fact that Kev was three pawns down. Inevitably within ten or twelve moves this was magically transformed into a mating attack featuring a knight sac that probably didn't work, but not featuring 3 (three) queen sacs on 3 (three) consecutive moves that definitely did. Eventually Kev forced a draw, playing for the team when he could have pressed for a win, 3½-2½.
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Happy Christmas & New Year to all.
Geoff