Sheffield Nomads Chess Club

I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Over the weekend Andrew and Oliver were ruthlessly human trafficked between the B Team and the C Team as local warlords Andy and Paul B marshalled their forces for Monday night's incursions into enemy territory. The B Team faced Worksop: Wins by Haidar, Stuart, and Andrew (his first for the club against a higher graded opponent) but a 3-5 loss for the team.

The C Team played the teenage tearaways of SASCA A. Wins for Paul B (or rather a tired loss by Evie) and Milan but losses by everyone else 2-4.

Wednesday at the Harlequin...A top of the table four pointer against Chesterfield A. Towards the end of the first time control the B/C Team view was 3-5/2-6 to Chesterfield but...Kieran's and Mohammad's games turned round completely, and Jeremy forced a win, these added to a win against the Benko by Paui C, and draws by Chris and Jon* made it 5-3. Chesterfield's account of the match is here.

The D Team also played, and not for the first time this season Robert stood down as the opposition, this time Rotherham Juniors C, defaulted on a board. Wins for Milan, Marek, Phil and a draw by Ian 4½-1½

*Incidentally Jon's game gave birth to the concept of the co-efficient of stodge.

Cs = number of pieces on the board + number of moves made

At the end of the game of 36 moves there were still 28 bits on the board giving a Cs of 64. Jon and Oliver attempted to claim that this was , in fact, exciting stodge with a piece left en prise in a position that was about to blow open like exploding dumplings.