Month: December 2015

December 22, 2015

Half way through the 2015/16 Season . South Shields are holding their own in the top two Northumberland Leagues .

South Shields A Team are in third place in the Northumberland 1st Division , however they hold a game in hand over the current top team Gosforth Empire and have yet to play against this formidable team .

South Shields B Team are currently Joint top of Division 2 with Leam Comets but have a game in hand .  It is going to be an exciting run-in  particularly as South Shields B last game this season will pitch these two teams together.

South Shields C are currently Joint Bottom of Division 3 , but have a great chance to pull further up the table as they now re-engage each of the teams they have played the season in the reverse fixture .

South Shields are also fielding a team in the Second Division of the Durham League and although they are second bottom there is not much of a points spread between the top and bottom , and we are hopeful of a better second half to the Season ,

South Shields Teams  currently hold first and second place in the Ron Evers Rapid Play Event after 2 rounds  , all to play for in the subsequent 4 rounds .

There were many good performances in these results  , lets hope we have good fortune in 2016 .

 

 

 

 

 

December 22, 2015

Brian Towers 1-0 R Donner
Assanga Gunasekera 0-1 G Hewitt
Chris Sayers 1-0 P Mackay
Brian Telford 0-1 R Gilpin
Alan Blackburn 0-1 S Fraser

Thursday 17th December 2015

December 15, 2015

Andy Lawson 1-0 John Boyd
Joe Dalton 0-1 Joe Watson
John Wheeler 0-1 Paul Bielby
JoshuA Fernadez ½-½ Simon McGuiness
D Baynes 1-0 Ian Maughan

John Boyd lost on time to Andy Lawson in a queen and pawn endgame . Joe Watson felt a little bored with his position and was considering  an e cigarette but decided to pull off a clever combination instead and won a bishop . Paul Bielby has lost count of the number of times he has played John Wheeler . Paul won a nice rook ending . Simon McGuinness played an unusual variation of the French Defence and was under the cosh before generating activity on both sides of the board . Ian Maughan had an exciting game . In mutual time pressure his opponents bishop pair conjured up too many threats .

 

 

Monday 14th December 2015

December 14, 2015

Brian Towers ½-½ Jeff Bentham
Dave Patterson 1-0 Rolf Millar
Kevin Rowden ½-½ Steve Bowey
Colin Campbell 1-0 Dennis Shippen
Asanga Gunasekera 0-1 Tom McAlister

Thursday 10th December 2015

December 12, 2015

Roy Perrier 1-0 Dominik Schwarz
Jeff Baird ½-½ Ben Wood
John Wall Jnr ½-½ Stan Johnson
Xu Weiming 0-1 Gary Hunter
Jamie Mcintosh 1-0 Brendan Glasper

Friday 11th December 2015

December 11, 2015

Chris Smith ½-½ Brian Towers
John Morton ½-½ Kevin Rowden
Bill Penny 0-1 Colin Campbell
Phil Jackson 0-1 Ben Wood
Joe Murray 0-1 Stan Johnson

Tuesday 24th November 2015

December 6, 2015

John Boyd 1-0 Klaus Mosnegetu
Joe Watson 1-0 Mariana Mosnegetu
Paul Bielby 0-1 David Wrigley
Simon McGuiness 0-1 Gary Murphy
Ian Maughan 1-0 Tim Wrigley

Thursday 03rd December 2015

December 2, 2015

Ben Wood 0-1 Richard Oxnard
Dominik Schwarz ½-½ Phil Jackson
Asanga Gunasekera 0-1 Dennis White
Stan Johnson 1-0 Bob Batten
Gary Hunter ½-½ Dennis Beagarie

Thursday 26th November 2015