Alexander Cup: Massacre at Redhill Methodist Church

28 April 2015

Streatham managed just one point out of ten in this Monday’s Alexander Cup semifinal match against strong Redhill team, in what was an even worse performance than Nigel Short’s in recent match against Garry Kasparov.

Board	Colour	Home Player	Grade	Score	Away Player	Grade	Score
1	B	McDonald, Neil R	238	1	Kemp, Peter D	200	0
2	W	Baker, Chris W	211	1	French, Angus J	188	0
3	B	Hanreck, Alan E	213	½	Haldane, Robin W	179	½
4	W	Chandler, Cliff R	219	1	Hladik, Pavel	175	0
5	B	Meyer, Gordon	200	1	Smith, Martin G	173	0
6	W	Grant, David J	191	1	Titorenko, Kostya	166	0
7	B	Noyce, Robert C	184	1	Olutola, Taiwo	147	0
8	W	Ball, Laurence	182	½	Varley, David A	145	½
9	B	Howell, Chris I	193	1 (def)			0
10	W	Dani, Tamas D	163m	1 (def)			0

Well done Robin and David for getting two positive results for Streatham.

Robin managed to draw in what looked like very complicated game, despite arriving late and having to play with 33 minutes vs. 60 minutes time handicap.

Another half point was due to David’s play in a strange French Winawer which went 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 dxe4 6. Qd2 ?!