South Shields Chess Club

We have moved to The Customs House and no longer are playing at the New Ship.

Asanga Gunasekera 0-1 Rose Wabuti
Mike W Savin ½-½ Michael Knight
Gary Hunter 1-0 Oliver Higgs
Brendan Glasper 0-1 Jeremy Revell
Alan Blackburn 0-1 Ninara Mir- Babayera

Thursday 29th January 2015

The C team lost out to the University team who outgraded them overall. Asanga was last to finish after a tense struggle against a strong Kenyan WFM . Mike Savin acting captain in the absence of Stan Johnson had an epic battle against his opposite number. Gary Hunter had a relatively quick win but unfortunately Alan and Brendan lost out on boards 4 and 5 .

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