Thursday, July 30, 2009

WP Leagues Round 3

Some feedback from Riaan regarding Round 2 in the Leagues:

On Monday the first team played against Uitsig. David, Lawrence and myself scored the full point, while Stephan, Gawie, Rico and Wesley all played to a draw. Thus the final team score was 5-2 in our favour. With a little bit of luck we could even have scored a bit more- but still-it is a good result, our first win in the premier this year, and a platform for the rest of the league. The good thing is that all the players that played in the first team thus far already contributed towards the team score. Our next match tomorrow is against the South-African club champions Steinitz and promise to be a very tough match indeed. Shaughn indicated that he is available and will play for us in this match.
Our second team battled the Steinitz second team on Monday. Our players fought hard, and I just want to make mention of Chezray that did it right in the end to win his match. Unfortunately that was just not enough and we lost the match 3-2 (Jeremy scored the other point on board 1).
The third team are going very well and seems to have settled as a unit immediately- and for that I think a lot of credit is due to the team captain. Charl pulled an impossible position around to turn a loss into a draw, and Kevin showed that we know our chess laws and got a draw on 10.2. All the rest of the players won. Thus the final score is 4-1 and we are now definitely amongst the front runners in the C division. Keep it up!

Tonight the A team plays against Steinitz A, the B-team faces BlackJacks B and the C team will be playing Athlone B.

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