Sunday 30 September 2007

Barry Lings

I played my first game of the season in the Derby & District league on Thursday. I lost to Barry Lings of Rolls Royce 'B', in a quite dull game where he converted a pawn advantage. In the match, Mick Orridge got a good win so we weren't white-washed against a higher graded team. Full results:

444 ROLLS ROYCE (B) 3 SPONDON (D) 1
1 Boreham Michael D 0 Orridge Mick 71 1
2 Archer Barry W 101 1 Tabberer Stuart 61 0
3 Marshall Nigel 97 1 Gibson Martin 55 0
4 Lings Barry W 85 1 Madden Dean 46 0

The game:

[Event "Derbyshire League Division 4"]
[Date "2007.09.27"]
[White "Barry Lings, Rolls Royce B"]
[Black "Dean Madden, Spondon D"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E61"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. Nf3 d6 5. e3 O-O 6. Be2 Re8 7. O-O Nbd7 8. Rb1 e5 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. b3 e4 11. Nd2 Nc5 12. Bb2 Bf5 13. Nb5 a6 14. Nd4 Qd7 15. Nxf5 Qxf5 16. Qc2 Rad8 17. Rfd1 Nd3 18. Bxd3 exd3 19. Qc1 Ng4 20. Nf3 Bxb2 21. Rxb2 Ne5 22. Nxe5 Qxe5 23. Rbd2 Qe4 24. Qc3 Qe5 25. Qxe5 Rxe5 26. Rxd3 Rxd3 27. Rxd3 b5 28. Rd5 Rxd5 29. cxd5 Kf8 30. e4 Ke7 31. f3 Kd6 32. b4 f5 33. Kf2 fxe4 34. fxe4 c6 35. dxc6 Kxc6 36. Ke3 Kd6 37. Kd4 Ke6 38. Kc5 Ke5 39. Kb6 Kxe4 40. Kxa6 1-0


This morning I achieved a draw after being a pawn down in an STC Gauntlet game against higher rated twotowers:

[Event "rated standard match"]
[Site "Free Internet Chess Server"]
[Date "2007.09.30"]
[White "deanmadden"]
[Black "twotowers"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1456"]
[BlackElo "1683"]
[ECO "B00"]
[TimeControl "3600+15"]

1. e4 d6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O Nbd7 7. Re1 e5 8. Nbd2 a5 9. Nf1 Nc5 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 12. Ne3 c6 13. d4 exd4 14. Nc4 Bg4 15. h3 Bxf3 16. Qxf3 Qxf3 17. Bxf3 Rfd8 18. Rad1 b5 19. Na3 Rac8 20. Nb1 Na4 21. b3 Nc3 22. Nxc3 dxc3 23. Bg4 Rb8 24. f4 c5 25. e5 dxe5 26. fxe5 h5 27. Bf3 Bh6 28. e6 fxe6 29. Rxe6 Kf7 30. Rxd8 Rxd8 31. Re5 Re8 32. Rxe8 Kxe8 33. Bc6+ Ke7 34. Bxb5 Be3+ 35. Kf1 g5 36. Ke2 Bd4 37. Kf3 h4 38. g4 Kd6 39. Ke4 Bg1 {Game drawn by mutual agreement} 1/2-1/2


I agreed a draw in an opposite colour bishop endgame. This gave me alltime high fics rating of 1463. This will probably decrease after the rematch tonight :)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi,

I watched nearly all of the re-match and it looked very much like a draw ( but maybe with an edge to twotowers . I had to sign off before the end.
How did you get on ?

Dean said...

Hi, thanks for watching! It was a similar second game, both of us with kings indians. But this time he played better in the endgame and beat me. I haven't had chance to analyse it yet, but from what I remember my king was boxed in and couldn't defend pawns on both flanks. We had same coloured bishops this time, so more winning chances I guess.

Anonymous said...

Ah, well. You can always challenge him to another game ?
I registered as an interested player btw as I've made my 20 rated games on FICS now. Too late for T34, but maybe the next one ? Cheers, Zwaarte Paard