April 17, 2019
A convincing finish saw the A team beat Morpeth B by 4.5 – 0.5. This leaves them in clear second position behind runaway league champions, Forest Hall A, who let slip only one drawn match and won the rest.
Here is one of the games from the Morpeth B victory.
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[Event “South Shields A v Morpeth B”]
[Site “South Shields”]
[Date “2019.04.04”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Loxham, Geoff”]
[Black “Kolodiy, Yaroslav”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “A02”]
[Annotator “Towers,Brian”]
[PlyCount “65”]
[TimeControl “75+10”]
1. f4 f5 2. b3 b6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Bb2 e6 5. e3 Bb7 6. Be2 Be7 7. O-O c5 8. c4 O-O 9. Nc3 Nc6 10. Ne5 d6 11. Nxc6 Bxc6 12. Bf3 Qd7 13. Bxc6 Qxc6 14. Qf3 Qxf3 15. Rxf3 Rad8 16. d4 d5 17. Nb5 Rd7 18. Rd1 Rfd8 {perhaps better would have been} (18… dxc4 19. bxc4 Rc8) {with the idea of winning the c pawn} 19. cxd5 Nxd5 20. dxc5 Bxc5 21. Bd4 Nxe3 {letting the pressure slip. More clinical would have been} (21… Nb4 22. Rf2 a6 Na3 Rxd4 24. exd4 Rxd4 25. Rxd4 Bxd4) 22. Rxe3 a6 { Here White resigned, perhaps prematurely. The game could have continued } 23. Rc1 Rxd4 24. Nxd4 Bxd4 25. Kf2 g5 26. Kf3 Bxe3 27. Kxe3 gxf4+ 28. Kxf4 Rd2 29. Rc6 Kf7 30. Rxb6 Rxa2 31. g4 fxg4 32. Kxg4 Kf6 33. h3 { When black still has a lot of work to do } 0-1
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