WORLD CHESS LEAGUE “LIVE” on Chess.com Round 7 report
WORLD CHESS LEAGUE “LIVE”
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Time-Control – 10 minutes + 5 seconds (Two matches each player)
Round 7 – Saturday 11th March 23 – 8pm – Chess.com
Div 1 – Result
Dundee City B 6 – 2 The 9th Rank (USA)
Unfortunately the 9th Rank could only muster 3 players this time (praise to their captain who worked very hard to try and get 4 boards!), which meant they had to default two games as four boards are the minimum requirement in this event. Now while it’s nice to get points, especially against a very strong side like the 9th Rank, I know we would rather have played the games an given all our players a game and took our chances on the night! Dariusz Kosznik was our unfortunate player who lost out in this match.
Dundee City B got off to a flier with young Rishi Vijayakumar J11 (1906) as white against an 1866 on board 3. He faced the Budapest Gambit, Fajarowicz variation and it followed the book line along a draw(ish) variation, but Rishi had other ideas!
By move 15 Rishi held the advantage and his opponent tried to swap Queens off to ease the pressure, but fell into a Rishi special combination and ended up getting his queen and King forked by Rishi, end of game, 1 – 0 Dundee City B in double quick time! How the hell can you work all that out at such speed? Well played young man! Just the start we needed!
Alan Borwell (2040) on board one and up against a NM in what turnout to be a French Défense, Howwitz, Papa-Ticulat Gambit (what?), did an unbelievable job in winning his first match to give Dundee City B a 2 – 0 start (forgetting the defaulted matches for now)! It just shows, when you have got it and have the vast, vast, vast, vast (Sorry Alan!) experience someone like Alan has, under pressure, you still have what it takes! The finish was exquisite with 26. Nb6#. Nice one Alan!
On board 2, Theodoros Vasiliadis as black played the Berlin defence in the Bishop’s Opening. It looked a very complex game, but could have been all theory as far I know! Time was an issue for his opponent and Theo took full advantage squeezing his opponent’s spaces down to almost nothing and leaving him with his Rook, Knight, King & Queen all on the first rank (e1, f1, g1 & h1 respectively!) with no where to go, nice! What a game and well played Theodorors!
Dundee City 3 – 0 up! With the two defaulted matches that meant Dundee City had already won the match and could relax!
Rishi as black won his second game (Caro-Kann) making it 2 wins for him. Alan lost his 2nd game with Black in a Bird’s Opening as did Theodoros with white in a Catalan.
The final score was Dundee City B 6 – 2 The 9th Rank (4 -2 in games played)
Congratulations to Dundee City B and it’s players on a fine win. Some great games by both sides and a big thank you to the 3 players (including their captain) of the 9th Rank who made a game of it despite the disappointment they must have felt being two nil down before they started. They battled as if their life depended on it and some great chess was the bonus for all! Thank you!
Dundee City B sit in 34th place on 4 points, but with some matches still to be completed.
Bring on round 8!
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