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Stroud Chess Club Diary: -
by Graham Brown

10/4/01 2nd Team Promoted!!! We played Dursley away and have got at least a draw, possibly a win if Matt's rook and pawn endgame, with one less pawn is drawn. Tony won yet again and I managed to get the game. It's in the list as Thomas - Barker. We have now won the 3rd Division and are promoted to Division 2!

30/3/01 Stroud - Tewkesbury Again Tony was kind enough to let many chess players into his home. The coffee and tea duties are no longer distracting him and he is beginning to win all his games again. This one, a very nice Marshall attack - on this site soon. No wonder Kasparov always avoids it! Matt's game is for adjudication but he is a clear pawn up going 2 or 3 up soon with his rook v knight. Tom had the best of a double rook middlegame but his opponent scraped a draw. John won another attacking game, this time with Black. We won all our Black games and drew one White one for a 4½ -½ win. You can see John's game to your left it's K. Parker - John Harris. Mine is also there K Knapgate - G Brown. Fritz says that if he had the better of it at one stage and I was lucky to run out the winner.

29/3/01 Duncan has just sent me an very nice game for the site (see Dicks - Carr to your left) and taken the care to annotate it.

Duncan Dicks - John Carr [C23]
Stroud v. Musketeers
Notes by Duncan Dicks

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Bc5 3.b4 Bb6
   Bxb4 is more normal entering an Evans Gambit without the knights out. White has other options such as f4 after Bxb4.
4.Nf3 d6 5.0-0 Nf6 6.d4 0-0
   6...exd4 7.Nxd4 Nxe4 8.Re1
7.Bg5 Nc6 8.c3 a6
Not very forcing. In general Black stands quite well but needs to be prepared to mix it.
9.dxe5 Nxe5 10.Nxe5 dxe5 11.Nd2
   Fritz likes 11. Qf3 but I felt underdeveloped. 11...Qd6 12.Qc2 Bg4 13.h3 Bh5
   Black is trying to put pressure on the White e-pawn but it is quite safe.
14.Bb3
   Making room for the knight to go to c4 and swap off the annoying bishop on b6.
14...Bg6 15.Rad1
   15.Nc4 Bxe4 16.Nxd6 Bxc2 17.Bxc2 cxd6 18.Bxf6 gxf6 and Black is slightly better because of the central pawn mass.
15...Rad8?
   A major mistake.
16.Nc4! Qe7
   16...Bxe4 17.Rxd6! Bxc2 18.Rxd8 Rxd8 19.Bxc2 leaves white a piece up now.
17.Nxb6 cxb6 18.Rfe1 b5
   Black tries to pin down the White c3 pawn but White's real advantage lies in the 2 bishops and Black's poorly place Bishop.
19.f3 Rxd1 20.Rxd1 Rd8 21.Be3 Qc7 22.Rxd8+ Qxd8 23.c4 bxc4 24.Qxc4 Ne8 25.Qc5 Qc7
   Now pawns start to disappear - Black is lost. 26.Bd5 Qxc5 27.bxc5 Nc7 28.Bxb7 Kf8 29.c6 Ke8 30.Bb6 Kd8
   Black has permanently pinned his Knight 31.Bxa6 f6 32.a4 Be8 33.Bb7 Bf7 34.a5 Be6 35.a6 Bc8 36.Bxc8 Kxc8 37.Bxc7 Kxc7 38.a7 1-0

20/3/01 A miniature from our win against Rank Xerox. (See Brown Orchard to your left and annotations below)

G. Brown - B. Orchard [B01]
Englund Gambit Declined - Reversed
Rank Xerox v Stroud
1.e4 d5 2.Ne2 d4 3.Ng3 What started as a Scandinavian is now The Englund Gambit (1.d4 e5) with a useful extra move.e5 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.d3 Bg4 6.f3 Be6 7.Bxe6 fxe6 8.0-0 f4 is in the air. Bd6 9.Nd2 c5 10.Nc4 Bc7 11.f4 exf4 12.Bxf4 0-0 13.Bxc7 Qxc7 14.e5 Nd5 15.Rxf8+ Kxf8 16.Qh5 g6 17.Rf1+ Kg7 18.Qh3 Ne3 19.Nd6
1-0

1/3/01 Again we were thankful to Tony and his wife for letting us use his place as the venue for a match with Pawnbrokers. Graham Neville was brought in on top board to boost the team. He convinced his opponent to resign at the end of their game since, although material was equal, it soon wouldn't be. I won on board 2 after thinking I had slipped into an opposite coloured bishop ending having been a pawn up for a long time. Luckily I had misunderstood the position and it turned into a zugzwang.after Bh5. The flawed but amusing game is on the left Brown v Gemlik. All in all a very good win 3½ -1½ with no losses.

In the pub afterwards we decided that Matt may have been right to offer a draw although we kept nearly winning the pawn races.

Tom had a draw from a slightly superior position and Tony also drew. It was nice for him to get a result. He has been winning and winning and winning for us, but he admitted that worrying about the coffee and tea orders put him off last time.

Special thanks to John for the lift even though he has had some sad news recently. We look forward to seeing him back creating more games like the wing gambit on the database to the left in the future.

8/2/01 1st Team went to Gloucester.to play Dragons. Duncan did a good job on board 1. See the game Buchanan - Dicks to your left. Fritz was assessing this an edge to Black a few times in the game but Duncan saw that the team was doing fine and Peter and Myself we winning. As they agreed a draw there were another 2 draws agreed by Andrew and Tom at the same time. It was left to myself and Peter. We both won, Peter had a lovely finish and hopefully we will put that game up soon. My game is also given, Brown - James. A 3½ 1½ win which keeps our season ticking along very nicely.

2/2/01 2nd Team beat Dursley last night 3-2 so we have only lost one all season to Xerox and we have beaten them also in return. Tony was kind enough to let us use his home for the match and having so many chessplayers in his house caused him to take his eye off the board and he suffered a rare defeat. I held on against a petroff and happily accepted my opponents draw offer. Tom drew to win us the match. The real winning work was done by Matt and John and their games are shown left.

JBH v K Markey
3rd Div v Dursley 01/02/01

John essays a wing gambit and a smashing kingside attach ensues. It's his refinement on my Halasz gambit (see below) and it might be a better pawn to give up to get in f4.

Hipwell v Matthew Guy
3rd Div v Dursley 01/02/01

A superb game with Matt taking on the queenside and his opponents full forces without using his f8 rook, by exploiting a slight king weakness.

I was pleased to find a mate in 2 Matt had missed at one point! Can you find it? But then again ... if you see an easy win you don't bother with puzzles in the heat of war!

31/1/00 Peter has kindly sent annotations for two of his games on the left.

Event "Tigers vs. Stroud"
White "D.Curnow"
Black "P.Dhonau"

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 ed
6. 0-0
   I wasn’t expecting this. I thought we were in for that long line of the Moller that the books say leads to a draw, but at amateur level often results in a crushing win for one side or the other
6...dc 7. e5 cb
   Played after much thought, as they say. The alternative was d5 immediately, but I decided that it was better to have the white bishop on the a1-h8 diagonal. I could also remember the comment accompanying cb in an old ECO assessment of a similar line in the Danish Gambit – “A little too greedy”!
8. Bxb2 d5 9. exf6 dxc4 10. Qe2+ Be6 11. Rd1 Bd6 12. Ng5
   Possibly fg
12 ... gf 13. Ne4 Ne5
   Must block the bishop. By this stage each move was a case of “Well, if black can’t play that the game’s lost so let’s assume it works”
14. f4 Bg4
   Phew! Without this it’d be grim indeed
15. Qf2 Bxd1 16. fxe5 Bxe5 17. Bxe5 fxe5 18. Nf6+ Kf8 19. Nc3
   Trapping the bishop – but just look at all those lovely black pawns
Qd4 20. Rxd1 Qxf2+
   There didn’t seem much point in grabbing the extra piece – why tempt fate?
21. Kxf2 Kg7 22. Ng4 Rd8 23. Rxd8 Rxd8 24. Nxe5 Rd2+ 0-1

Event "Stroud vs. Musketeers"
White "P.Dhonau"
Black "T.Bonsor"

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be3 Nbd7 6. Qd2 c6 7. Bh6 0-0 8.Bxg7 Kxg7 9. h4
I hoped I was attacking, but after my opponent’s next few moves I wasn’t so sure
9 ..h5 0. Bd3 e5 11. 0-0-0 Qa5 12. Rdg1 ed 13. Nxd4 Ne5 14. f3 Bd7 15. g4
   Banzai!
15... hg 16. h5 Nxd3+ 17. cxd3 Rh8 18. hg fg 19. f4 Rh5 20. Rxh5 Nxh5
   I was relieved to see this, now at least lines towards the black king can be opened. The previous few moves had left me thinking I just had a bad position
21. f5 Qe5 22. Rxg4 Qxd4 23. Rxg6+ Kf7 24. Qg5 Rh8 25. Kc2
   I couldn’t see how to make progress so I wanted to see what he’d do next
25...b5 26. Ne2 Qf2 27. Kd2 d5 28. Rd6
   My opponent hadn’t spotted white’s threats and his queen is now not so well-placed
Be8 29. e5 Qc5 30. a3
   Now I was sure I was winning, but I only had a minute or so left for the remaining moves which always sets the panic level rising
30...b4 31. d4 Qa5 32. e6+ Kf8 33. e7+ Kf7 34. Re6 ba+ 35. Nc3 a2 1-0
   Mate next move

20/1/00 Brown - Taylor from the match mentioned below. Game is Adjudicated but after BxN it's a draw according to my Ken Thompson 5 piece endgame database. A lucky escape for myself having been outplayed ... should we tweak the chess rules? An extra piece, hard earned in the middlegame should win? Who am I to suggest a rule change!?

19/1/00: 2 new additions to our games selection from Duncan Dicks, First team top board and BCF 193 but he doesn't boast about it! In fact he only found out last night at our game against Gloucester (This time they got revenge, but Duncan held a draw and Graham Neville should draw his game. My own, rook against rook and knight turns out to be a draw according to my CD 5 piece database that works back from checkmate!

01/01/00 To start our games page I have 2 from Peter Dhoanu our excellent new Bosman signing from Surrey. I have also put my win against Cannell.
Hopefully members will email, or give me their games and I will put them up on the site. As you can see so far, they don't have to be perfect!
Dhonau v Bonsor
From Stroud vs Musketeers.

Nice Board 2 win from our new star.
D Curnow v P Dhonau
from Tigers vs Stroud .

A fantastically useful point against a very dangerous Division 1 Top Board, helping us to go top of the North Gloucesterhire League in 1999.
Brown v Cannell.
The Halasz Gambit, even more unsound than the Smith Morra. But it's helped me draw against a 2400 player (IM Simon Ansell) and here I get lucky at the end against a 187.