Dudley & District Chess League 2011-12 - match details

Last updated 9 May 2013

2012-13 match details

Division 1

Warley Quinborne - Boldmere St Michaels			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Simon Smith Sean Ralph John Fahy Alan Burnet	1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 0 - 1	Leo Tsoi Loxley Bennett Dave Brelsforth Arthur Kent
	Result	2 - 2	Played 11 Oct

Halesowen - Boldmere St Michael			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Rob Grimes Peter Banks Don Curry Paul Evans	0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 0 - 1	Loxley Bennett Mike Biddle A (Sandy) Wilson Dave Brelsforth
	Result	½ - 3½	Played 16 Oct

Stourbridge - Halesowen			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Nic Fallowfield Nick Harris Julie Wilson John Loynes	½ - ½ 1 - 0 0 - 1 ½ - ½	Rob Grimes Peter Banks Don Curry Maureen Clark
	Result	2 - 2	Played 22 Oct

Warley Quinborne - Halesowen			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Simon Smith John Fahy Jon Turner Alan Burnett	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0	Rob Grimes Peter Banks Don Curry Maureen Clark
	Result	4 - 0	Played 8 Nov

Halesowen - Stourbridge			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Rob Grimes Adrian Priest Don Curry Joyce Evans	0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 ½ - ½	Nic Fallowfield Dave Scriven Julie Wilson Colin Woodall
	Result	1 - 3	Played 27 Nov

Stourbridge - Boldmere			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Greg Dyett Julie Wilson Ron Evans John Loynes	½ - ½ ½ - ½ ½ - ½ ½ - ½	Leo Tsoi Andy Lake Mike Biddle Dave Brelsforth
	Result	2 - 2	Played 5 Dec

Halesowen - Warley Quinborne			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Rob Grimes Jon Asbury Don Curry Peter Banks	½ - ½ 0 - 1 ½ - ½ ½ - ½	Andrew Moxley Simon Smith John Fahy Alan Burnet
	Result	1½ - 2½	Played 26 Feb

Warley Quinborne - Stourbridge			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Simon Smith Jon Turner John Fahy Alex Holowczak	0 - 1 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 ½ - ½	Nic Arkell Dave Scriven Paul Sharratt John Foxall
	Result	2 - 2	Played 7 Mar

Boldmere - Halesowen			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Leo Tsoi Andy Lake Michael Harrington Arthur Kent	½ - ½ ½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0	Rob Grimes Maureen Clark A (Tony) Taylor Joyce Evans
	Result	3 - 1	Played 10 Apr

Boldmere - Warley Quinborne			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Leo Tsoi Andy Lake Michael Harrington Arthur Kent	½ - ½ 0 - 1 1 - 0 0 - 1	Mike Wildboar Simon Smith Andrew Moxley John Fahy
	Result	1½ - 2½	Played 17 Apr

Stourbridge - Warley Quinborne			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Nic Arkell David Scriven Julie Wilson Paul Sharratt	1 - 0 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 1 - 0	Mike Wildboar Simon Smith Amrik Singh Jon Turner
	Result	2½ - 1½	Played 1 May

Boldmere - Stourbridge			Division 1
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Leo Tsoi Michael Harrington Dave Brelsforth Arthur Kent	0 - 1 ½ - ½ ½ - ½ 0 - 1	Nic Arkell Nic Fallowfield Dave Scriven Eric Horwill
	Result	1 - 3	Played 8 May
Stourbridge News reported on this match for the League Championship on 23 May

Division 2

Wolverhampton - Mutual Circle			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Ilan Dwek Gordon G Sands Peter Hubbard Steve Wilson	½ -½ 1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1	Paul Heeney Alan Woollaston John Homer Sheila Robinson
	Result	1½ - 2½	Played 13 Sep

Wolverhampton - Halesowen			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Nigel Collins Pete Hubbard Paul D Walters Ron Whittingham	0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	Peter Banks Don Curry Paul Evans Maureen Clark
	Result	0 - 4	Played 4 Oct
Match report from Paul Walters. Paul reports that it "felt a bit strange as I'd been away for so long" awating the birth of his baby daughter on 20 September. "I played well gained a great position but didn't capitalise on it. A poor move by me allowed Paul to equalise". A race to promote a pawn to a queen led to my opponent moving a pawn to c1, but placed my white queen on the queening square. This stunned me for a moment and I was tempted to move my new queen. We both realised the error and a black queen replaced the white on. "I gained my white queen on a8 a move later. The drawish position started to shift toward black and I eventually lost. I hope my opponent won't me mentioning he wrote "I was lucky!" on the top of the scoresheet. I did agree. Paul Evans played very well and became stronger under pressure when I played a bit too quickly and less accurately as weariness set in. Playing fast in endgames is not wise especially when you have an abundance of time on your clock. The moral of the story a good position isn't a win unless you make it happen".

Halesowen - Warley Quinborne			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Windsor Peck Peter Banks Don Curry Paul Evans	0 - 1 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 ½ - ½	Matthew Fergusson Alex Holowczak Wendell Rawlings Stuart Black
	Result	2 - 2	Played 9 Oct

Warley Quinborne - Wolverhampton			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Matthew Fergusson Alex Holowczak Stuart Black John B Lewis	½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½	Ilan G Dwek Gordon G Sands Brian Walker Peter Hubbard
	Result	3 - 1	Played 22 Nov
This match score was amended 8 April after e-mails from Alex Holowczak and Paul Walters. Alterations affect players names and results on boards 3 and 4.

Halesowen - Wolverhampton			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Peter Banks Don Curry Paul Evans Maureen Clark	½ - ½ 1 - 0 ½ - ½ ½ - ½	Ilan Dwek Geoffrey Rosser Peter Hubbard Barry Lewis
	Result	2½ - 1½	Played 18 Dec

Mutual Circle - Warley Quinborne			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Mike Walker Paul Heeney Sheila Robinson Alan Woolaston	0 - 1 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1	Mathew Fergusson Alex Holowczak Joe Rourke John B Lewis
	Result	½ - 3½	Played 5 Feb

Warley Quinborne - Mutual Circle			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Mathew Furgusson Alex Holowczak Joe Rourke Stuart Black	1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 ½ - ½	Mike Walker Paul Heaney Alan Woollaston Sheila Robinson
	Result	2½ - 1½	Played 14 Feb

Wolverhampton - Warley Quinborne			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Ilan G Dwek Peter Hubbard Paul Walters Steve Wilson	1 - 0 0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1	Alex Holowczak Joe Rourke John B Lewis Stuart Black
	Result	1½ - 2½	Played 21 Mar

Mutual Circle - Halesowen			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Mark Paffard Mike Hollier Mike Walker Alan Woolaston	0 - 1 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 0 - 1	Don Curry Peter Banks Maureen Clark David Etheridge
	Result	1½ - 2½	Played 26 Mar

Warley Quinborne - Halesowen			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Matthew Fergusson Alex Holowczak Joe Rourke John B Lewis	1 - 0 ½ - ½ ½ - ½ ½ - ½	Don Curry Peter banks Paul Evans Maureen Clark
	Result	2½ - 1½	Played 9 Apr
Alex Holowczak reports. The score was 1½ - 1½ with board 1 still to finish. Warley had worked out from the tie-break rules that were Matthew to draw, a Halesowen 2½ - 1½ win would secure a play-off between the two teams. A Halesowen 3-1 win or better would win them the league. Warley would have been pretty miffed if this match result and Mutual Circle's default against Halesowen gave the league win to Halesowen; but that never happened. Curry had a massive time advantage at about move 40, but somehow managed to get a worse position. Furgusson rattled off about 15 moves in 5 minutes, and had an overwhelmingly position by the time Curry's flag fell.

Mutual Circle - Wolverhampton			Division 2
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Mike Walker Alan Woollaston Sheila Robinson Paul Heeney	1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0	Gordon G Sands Geoff Rosser Peter Hubbard Barry Lewis
	Result	3½ - ½	Played 23 Apr
Editor. Record altered 26-4-13 in response to further information from players and captains. In the original version Mutual's boards 3 and 4 were in the wrong order.

Division 3

Warley Quinborne - Halesowen			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Peter Hughes Pauline Woodward John Pakenham Patricia Wheeldon	½ - ½ 0 - 1 1 - 0 0 - 1	Maureen Clark Tony Taylor John Southcote Joyce Evans
	Result	1½ - 2½	Played 6 Sep

Brewood - Kynoch			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	David Buckley (W) Paul Guest Andrew Davies Stephen Micklewright	1 - 0 ½ - ½ ½ - ½ 1 - 0	Mike Peers Stewart Wood Brian Dawson Edna Dawson
	Result	3 - 1	Played 25 Sep

Walsall Kipping - Brewood			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Rob Jones (W) Kevin Moore Simon Jones Mel James	1 - 0 1 - 0 0 - 1 0 - 1	David Buckley (B) Andrew davies Stephen Micklewright David Blower
	Result	2 - 2	Played 4 Oct

Kynoch - Halesowen			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Stuart Wood Mike Peers Ian Wood Sean Hatfield	½ - ½ 0 - 1 1 - 0 1 - 0	Maureen Clark Mark Vile John Southcote Joyce Evans
	Result	2½ - 1½	Played 9 Oct
Corrected. Sorry for getting results wrong way round when first published 9 Oct. and thanks to Stewart Fishburne for putting me right.

Halesowen - Walsall Kipping			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Richard Woolley Maureen Clark Mark Vile Joyce Evans	1 - 0 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 0 - 1	Kevin Moore Lance Hayes Mike Savin Richard Wilkinson
	Result	2½ - 1½	Played 23 Oct

Warley Quinborne - Mercia			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Richard Collett John Pakenham Peter Kearns Patricia Wheeldon	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0	Chris Heathcock David Challenor Phil Nicholls George Challenor
	Result	4 - 0	Played 1 Nov

Brewood - Mercia			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Stephen Micklewright (W) David Blower Mark Binfield Daniel Binfield	1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0 1 - 0	Chris Hancock Dave Challinor Phil Nicholls George Challinor
	Result	4 - 0	Played 6 Nov

Mercia - Kynoch			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Chris Heathcock Tony Lowke Dave Challinor George Challinor	½ - ½ 0 - 1 1 - 0 0 - 1	Stuart Wood Mike Peers Brian Dawson Betty Dawson
	Result	1½ - 2½	Played 13 Nov

Kynoch - Walsall Kipping			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Ian Wood Stuart Wood Mike Peers Betty Dawson	1 - 0 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 0 - 1	Rob Jones Kevin Moore Mike Savin Peter Nixon
	Result	1½ - 2½	Played 19 Nov

Birmingham Checkmates - Brewood			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Martin Draper William Rees James Draper Cameron Westwood	½ - ½ ½ - ½ 0 - 1 0 - 1	Andrew Davies David Blower Mark Binfield Danny Binfield
	Result	1 - 3	Played 20 Dec
Report from David Blower. Board 1 was a fairly even game all the way through and was the last game to finish, the draw agreed with the result already decided in Brewoods favour. On board 2 with white, David Blower opened with the Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation and was a pawn up in the middle of the game. The end game was unusual as the knights were still on the board. Eventually, Rees exchanged his knight for a passed pawn, but a draw was agreed to guaranteed Brewood's victory. Mark Binfield played Sicilian Defence with an unusual and likely unsound variation. His young opponent took full advantage and was only a move away from a forced win after the opening, but Mark castled queenside and escape the trap. James Draper left a bishop unguarded and then Mark Binfield took advantage with double rooks on the h-file. Well played to young James; this is likely to be a one and only win over this youngster for Mark! The battle between juniors on Board 4 transposed into a Three Knights Game with a sort of inverted Ruy Lopez. Danny left a couple of pawns en prise and after the queens were swapped off, entered the endgame in a desperate position. However the Brewood player generated a passed pawn and found an excellent move with his rook to force Cameron to trade it for the promoted pawn. Danny's recent practice with the rook-and-king matesallowed him to wrap up the game.

Mercia - Walsall Kipping			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Chris Heathcock Tony Lowke Arthur Jancis Philip Nicholls	0 - 1 ½ - ½ 0 - 1 0 - 1	Kevin Moore Mike Savin Peter Nixon Richard Wilkinson
	Result	½ - 3½	Played 29 Jan

Walsall Kipping - Warley Quinborne			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Lukasz Walijewski Peter Gavin Matt Rounds Mike Savin	1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0	John Pakenham Peter Hughes Peter Kearns Default
	Result	3½ - ½	Played 14 Feb

Halesowen - Brewood			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Richard Woolely Maureen Clark John Southcote Joyce Evans	½ - ½ ½ - ½ ½ - ½ 0 - 1	Stephen Micklewright David Buckley Andrew Davies David Blower
	Result	1½ - 2½	Played 19 Feb
Report from David Blower. On board 2, David Buckley and Maureen Clark drew when both players had a pawn and and rook each. Analysis showed the position was dead drawn. On board 3, Andrew Davies also got a draw. The material was even, although the John Southcote felt he had a slightly better pawn structure. With all the rest of the games draws, Brewood's David Blower got a victory to secure the match. In a Three Knights Opening, David made a mistake on move 10 leaving his central e-pawn en prise but, Joyce Evans did not take it. Shortly after, players exchanged three minor pieces. This led to a classic knight v bishop game with David having the knight. At first David manoevred his knight, looking for a gap in the defences. Meanwhile Joyce used her bishop to control a key diagional from long range. Until Joyce blundered her rook in exchange for David's remaining knight, the game had been very even. Soon David had also forked Joyce's bishop, and got a rook on the 7th rank. The final mating position made the game appear less balanced than it was, showing nce you have a material advantage, it becomes easier to get an even bigger one.

Mercia - Halesowen			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Chris Heathcock Dave Challenor Philip Nicholls George Challinor	0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1 0 - 1	Maureen Clark David Etheridge John Southcote Joyce Evans
	Result	0 - 4	Played 26 Feb

Warley Quinborne - Kynoch			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	John Pakenham Peter Hughes Pat Wheeldon John Whitehouse	½ - ½ 1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0	Mike Peers Stuart Wood Brian Dawson Betty Dawson
	Result	3 - 1	Played 28 Feb

Brewood - Warley Quinborne			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Stephen Micklewright David Blower Mark Binfield Danny Binfield	1 - 0 0 - 1 1 - 0 0 - 1	Richard Collett John Pakenham Peter Hughes Peter Kearns
	Result	2 - 2	Played 26 Mar
Report from David Blower. On board 1, Steve Micklewright gained a pawn late on in the game and it turned into an overwhelming advantage. With several passed pawns and one of them about to queen, Steve's opponent resigned. On board 2: David Blower's unbeaten Dudley League record came undone right at the end of the season. David played a Queen's Pawn, Chigorin Variation as black. David exchanged his bishop for John Pakenham's knight, doubling pawns and producing an open-g file, but David couldn't move his pieces to exploit it. John won the excahnge with a skewer. With the queens still on the board and an open file, David played on in the hope of a perpetual check, but it was not to be after the exchange of queens. At this point Peter had two rooks against rook and bishop and used them to force a pawn to the 7th rank when David had to sacrifice his own rook to stop the pawn and resigned, setting up the tense finish later on in the evening. Mark Binfield's game was the last to finish. Mark already knew that it was all down to him to deliever us the league title. No pressure then Mark - apart from the whole room watching! The whole season had come down to the last fifteen minutes of the last game in the last match. After a neat combination Mark set up a skewer: a rook check to take his opponents queen. Peter moved his king out of check and all Mark had to do was take the queen, but Mark took what seemed like years to do a simple move. Eventually he took the queen. All the spectators' body language was fascinating to watch. A sigh of relief after a move, or a nod of the head, as we were all saying (to ourselves) what moves Mark should be making. Mark then took the knight, but the tension in the still didn't loosen. Mark had not advanced any of his pawns in front of the king, and there was still the possibility of a back rank mate. Everyone in the room could see it, but could Mark? Yes! He exchanged his queen for his opponent's rook. With no possible threats left, Peter resigned. All things considered Mark played very well given the match and league situation. On board 4 Danny Binfield will be disappointed with his defeat. He fell for a pawn fork of knight and bishop. It started with Danny taking Peter Kearns's knight in exchange for a pawn. This led to Danny's bishop and knight being on the 4th rank and two files apart. Peter moved his pawn forward two squares forking both pieces with the pawn defended by another pawn diagionally behind. Dan counter-attacked, but it didn't work and he ended up losing his knight. Overall both players had lost knights, but Danny was now a pawn down. Peter used his experience and material advantage to trade pieces. No matter what Danny wanted to do, he was forced into them. Eventually Peter took advantage of an open file with his queen and rook to checkmate.

Birmingham Checkmates - Warley Quinborne			Division 3
Board	Home team	Score	Away team
1 2 3 4	Andrew Fergusson W Paul Taylor Aaron Vitarana Harvey Watkins	1 - 0 ½ - ½ 1 - 0 1 - 0	Pauline Woodward John Pakenham Peter Hughes Patricia Wheeldon
	Result	3½ - ½	Played 11 Apr